Sentence examples for ruling totalitarian from inspiring English sources

Yet the constraints of a ruling totalitarian theocracy turned banned literature into forbidden fruit and gave teaching undergraduate staples like Jane Austen the panache of leading an underground rebellion.

When her abilities are brought to the attention of the ruling, totalitarian Council, she is banished to the remote mountain institution of Obernewtyn, where all "Misfits" are sent.

However, ThinkProgress chillingly notes that Trump's demand directly correlates to the "final, most essential command" of the ruling totalitarian regime in George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984: "to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears".

The Sark Newsletter – recently rebranded as the Sark Newspaper – has compared the government, known as the chief pleas, to "fascist Germany in the 1930s", claiming the island is controlled by a "totalitarian one ruling party regime" that is wrecking Sark's economy.

The reason is political: a full exposure of the Great Famine could undermine the legitimacy of a ruling party that clings to the political legacy of Mao, even though that legacy, a totalitarian Communist system, was the root cause of the famine.

Every totalitarian country has a constitution the Soviet constitution was a mockery not because its "norms" were not respected but because the ruling party had complete contempt for the premises it was based on.

Every totalitarian country has a constitution — the Soviet constitution was a mockery not because its "norms" were not respected but because the ruling party had complete contempt for the premises it was based on.

A leading Brotherhood member, Ibrahim Mounir, described the ruling as a "totalitarian decision" but insisted the group would not disappear.

Sauron rules a totalitarian and imperialistic state.

In recent years I have written several posts that discussed the growing strength, especially in Europe, of political parties strongly committed to nationalism, militarism, authoritarian governance and more forceful economic stimulus, quite similar to the ruling parties in the totalitarian Axis countries, against whom the United States and its allies fought World War II.

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