Sentence examples for dictatorial reign from inspiring English sources
During his dictatorial reign tens of thousands of opponents of his regime were tortured.
From 1838, when Nicaragua seceded from the United Provinces of Central America, to 1979, when the long dictatorial reign of the Somoza family came to an end, Nicaragua had nine constitutions.
The protesters who ended both Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's corrupt dictatorial reign and now the Ennahda party's recent Islamist regime are the educated sons and daughters of the large, secular middle class that was built over decades by the independence generation.
He issued the obligatory praise for Michelle Rhee's reframing of the debate on teacher pay, but then wrote an objective account of her dictatorial reign and defeat.
Committee of Public Safety, French Comité De Salut Public, political body of the French Revolution that gained virtual dictatorial control over France during the Reign of Terror (September 1793 to July 1794).
His reign since then has been described by one Chrysler vice president as dictatorial– but necessary.
Although he died in 1953 at the age of 74, Russia's cruel, dictatorial leader Joseph Stalin had fostered gross mistrust of most everyone; the residue of his reign might have set the mood for my interrogation.
According to the report, the Dutchman had almost dictatorial powers at the UCI between 1991 and 2005, and continued to exert influence under the reign of his hand-picked successor, Irishman McQuaid.
Historian Richard Graham noted that "[m]ost twentieth-century historians, moreover, have looked back on the period [of Pedro II's reign] nostalgically, using their descriptions of the Empire to criticize sometimes subtly, sometimes not Brazil's subsequent republican or dictatorial regimes".
"Most twentieth-century historians, moreover, have looked back on the period [of Pedro II's reign] nostalgically, using their descriptions of the Empire to criticize sometimes subtly, sometimes not Brazil's subsequent republican or dictatorial regimes".
