Sentence examples for theocratic rule from inspiring English sources

Theocratic rule was typical of early civilizations.

After 31 years of theocratic rule, there is an increasing tendency in Iran to separate mosque and state.

He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership.

This decision prompted the meeting in India – which aims to complete the transition from theocratic rule to democracy.

WHEN Ayatollah Khomeini founded Iran's Islamic government 20 years ago, he intended it to be a balance between democratic and theocratic rule.

On the first anniversary of the nuclear deal, in 2016, Pompeo went further and called for the end of theocratic rule in Tehran.

We Jewish Israelis--and people from the West in general--tend to look at Iran as the enemy of the Free World, as a place where the rulers are racing towards a nuclear bomb to annihilate Israel and challenge the domination of Western culture, and as a theocratic country ruled by dictators who are bent only on evil ways.

Both were looking towards the imminent arrival of a worldwide theocratic state directly ruled over by God himself.

In 1932, Rutherford eliminated the system of locally elected elders and in 1938, introduced what he called a "theocratic" (literally, God-ruled) organizational system, under which appointments in congregations worldwide were made from the Brooklyn headquarters.

The theocratic regime that rules Iran today came to power in part thanks to bitter resentment against the U.S.-British operation to overthrow the country's democratically elected prime minister in 1953, after he nationalized Iran's oil.

As for the commandment to "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's", that is a statement of theocratic resistance to Roman rule.