Sentence examples for ruling dictatorship from inspiring English sources

DB Clear Blue Tomorrows by Fabien Vehlmann, Ralph Meyer and Bruno Gazzotti (Cinebook, November) Clear Blue Tomorrows provides an amusing dystopian set-up: engineer Nolan Ska travels back in time to prevent the ruling dictatorship made possible by the inventions of one FG Wilson.

For that reason, they were able to trounce the ruling dictatorship in a free and fair election.

Note: In my first commentary [1] on the theme, "Where do we go from here?", I suggested that the ruling dictatorship in Ethiopia following its 99.6percentt "victory" in the May 2010 parliamentary "election" will continue to do business as usual in much the same way as it has over the last two decades.

Note: In my last commentary on the theme, "Where do we go from here?" I suggested that the ruling dictatorship in Ethiopia following its 99.6percentt "victory" in the May 2010 parliamentary "election" will continue to do business as usual in much the same way as it has over the last two decades.

For years, Western nations have used the lack of democratic reforms in the Middle East and North Africa as leverage to pressure and manipulate ruling dictatorships to bend to foreign interests.

For the first time, he also discusses at length the price he had to pay for his convictions in the late 60's: imprisonment for about three months by the ruling military dictatorship followed by two years in exile in London.

JOHANNESBURG — Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and soon perhaps Syria — over the past year many long-ruling dictatorships have been collapsing like houses of cards.

Ever since the Arab Spring brought down long-ruling dictatorships in the Middle East, the party's propaganda machine has spared no effort in portraying the events in the region in the most negative light.

Besigye, who is running for president for a fourth time, has declared the ruling government a dictatorship and promised to run a campaign of "defiance, not compliance".

With Ms. Rousseff set to govern for another term, the leftist Workers Party, which was created in 1980 in opposition to the military dictatorship ruling Brazil, is also poised to be in power for 16 years.

"The arrests serve the interests of the terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran," said a June 19 letter from Representative William Lacy Clay, a Missouri Democrat, calling for the immediate release of Mrs. Rajavi.