Sentence examples for soft dictatorship from inspiring English sources

Now he gets to see a soft dictatorship (such a lovely phrase) up close.

The soft dictatorship of Mr. Milosevic's later years involved the fabulous enrichment of close associates given effective control over whole sectors of the economy.

"In Egypt, it's sort of a soft dictatorship," said Gamal Eid, executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information in Cairo.

AS Mr. Milosevic kept rowing against the tide of history, he increasingly developed a sort of soft dictatorship -- a "dictablanda" rather than a "dictadura".

The newly-crowned winner of the 2015 Nobel literature prize, Svetlana Alexievich, last week warned Europe to beware of Lukashenko, describing his regime as a "soft dictatorship".

Now 45, he talks expansively about his passion for reading and rumba music, and with disdain about President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's "soft dictatorship" in the former French colony he revisits each year.

To downplay that duplicity, politicians had long called these regimes simply "soft dictatorships". Our governments and corporations expanded trade with them and spoke smugly of their growing economies.

Fascism, despite its claim to being a "totalitarian" regime, was, he argued, a softer dictatorship that retained much of the liberal bureaucracy, made peace with the Roman Catholic Church and did not share Hitler's obsession with racism and the Jews.

There are hints of a soft, bureaucratic dictatorship in the rigid exams that deny Tom a college education, and in the schoolroom indoctrination by textbook, which asserts that the moon landings were a Cold War fabrication.

Speaking of soft-peddling dictatorship, in 2012 Salmond also appeared to dodge a visit to Scotland by the Dalai Lama which would have kept the peace with his friends in the Chinese government.

"He was loved by the British for his Second World War anti-fascism, by many due to his resistance to Stalin, and by his people for high living standards, freedom of travel and life under very soft or liberal dictatorship.