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the misrule
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The state of being ruled badly; disorder, lawlessness, anarchy.
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They have substituted the misrule of politics for the rule of law.
One priest laments the misrule, but complains that Zimbabweans lack the fire in the belly to unseat their unpopular leader.
Most of the credit for these changes goes to Africans who demanded an end to the misrule of the past.
With just half a year to go, it will be a stretch for the near-bankrupt dictatorship to overcome the misrule continuing under his son, Kim Jong Il.
But the task of providing efficient services in Bolivia's capital, a city of over 1m, has been made harder still by the misrule of its political leaders.
In context, the final speech to the Senate, newly restored to power after the misrule of the Caesars, takes some beating: "Is Rome worth one good man's life?
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Columnist Margaret Wente wants to blame the whole thing on the "corruption, misrule, and Democratic-machine politics" of the city's black political class instead of "Republicans and rapacious corporations".
Someone is representing the power of chaos, the lord of misrule, the force of violently entertaining disarray.
Burns likes to swallow huge subjects whole — American subjects — and this year he brings us "Prohibition," the story of the 14-year misrule of the 18th Amendment and of the decades-long temperance movement that preceded it.
(And, of course, her idled captivity at the hands of cavalier authority parallels the general misrule).
Most Russians are sick of the corruption, misrule and poverty that plague their country while the Kremlin elite feasts on the profits from oil and gas exports — and who can blame them?
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