Sentence examples for repressive dictatorships from inspiring English sources

Almost all of the Arab or Muslim countries in the Middle East are repressive dictatorships.

In a continent infamous for repressive dictatorships, Equatorial Guinea is among the very worst.

Once the eighth-largest economy in the world, it steadily slid through the 20th century, thanks to decades of repressive dictatorships and inconsistent market experiments.

The view I have come to is that the stability of corrupt and violently repressive dictatorships in Middle Eastern states like Gaddafi's in Libya is false stability.

It's hypocritical to now see no problem with a cultural exchange with one of the most repressive dictatorships in the world.

Such intimidation and character assassination is behavior more reminiscent of repressive dictatorships than of our democracy, whose fundamental principles of free speech and respect for others' opinions these elected officials claim they wish to export.

One year earlier, the death of Generalissimo Franco had released the country from a repressive dictatorship.

America's rigid support of Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi's repressive dictatorship has not been forgotten.

Few people realise that there is a repressive dictatorship right in the middle of Europe.

Once everyone realizes that we're no longer being hypocrites, coddling a corrupt, repressive dictatorship that sponsors terrorism even as we plot to crush a corrupt, repressive dictatorship that sponsors terrorism, it will transform our relationship with the Arab world.

China remains a viciously repressive dictatorship, where any weakness of the central government is compensated by the even more arbitrary exercise of power by local authorities.