Sentence examples for theocratic model from inspiring English sources

"We don't like the theocratic model," he added.

What they are trying to forge is an alternative kind of politics to the Iranian autocratic, theocratic model, or the secular dictatorships of the Middle East.

Iraq won't follow the theocratic model of Iran, but it could end up as Iran Lite: an Islamic state, but ruled by politicians rather than ayatollahs.

With acknowledgments to a who's who of Iraq-war advocates — Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Bernard Lewis, and Ahmed Chalabi — Wurmser proposed that the overthrow of Saddam would put in power traditional Shiites, who would reject the theocratic model of Iran and govern instead in a democratic, pro-Western way, in accord with the moderate beliefs of their own religious leaders, in Najaf and Karbala.

However, they hypothesise that theocratic models of government, in which political leaders are strongly influenced by religious institutions, may provide a channel for anti-scientific views to influence public policy.

Game theoretic approach: game theocratic models are a special case of decision theocratic models.

In working out the political implications of such views, Plato's Laws became an important model for theocratic political reform, especially as Neoplatonism became influential for a certain strand of Christian thinkers, in particular those able to absorb the translation of Greek texts into Arabic.

Moreover, Mubarak often feared -- unjustifiably -- that Egypt's Islamists would embrace the Iranian model of a theocratic state.

There should be world-wide studies aimed at developing models that fit theocratic societies.

The ethos of ancient Egypt, for example, was theocratic hierarchy.

Most of the computational trust models lie under the decision or game theocratic category.