Synonym: Caesarism, Stalinism, absolutism, authoritarianism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, totalitarianism, tyranny. Similar words: censorship, dictate, ownership, leadership, membership, partnership, scholarship, indicator. Meaning: [-təʃɪp] n. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.).
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61. We, like our growing number of thinking Ulsterfolk, envisage no future under Westminster dictatorship.
62. Her fearless opposition to the military dictatorship has won admiration from around the world.
63. Do you think it is appropriate to think of democracy and dictatorship as two ends of a single continuum?
64. The Madeirans were worried, in particular, in case a post-revolutionary Communist dictatorship should install itself in Lisbon.
65. Years of dictatorship also meant that officials in athletic circles had very little grasp on reality.Sentencedict.com
66. Yes, well, when one has spoken out for freedom against dictatorship there are other people gunning for one.
67. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. George Orwell
68. An alternative outcome, but one which may well develop from the first, is the emergence of a strong nationalist dictatorship.
69. Dictatorship will especially emphasize the absence of a limited mandate for the political leaders.
70. The Parliamentary Council feared a democratic state incapable of functioning as much as a dictatorship too capable of functioning.
71. Would a system not be a dictatorship if the ruler is unable to exercise absolute power?
72. A slim majority of 52 percent said martial law harmed the country, while 43 percent said dictatorship brought benefits.
73. One critical element of authoritarianism, shared with a dictatorship, is the absence of a limited mandate.
74. The political turbulence that followed the Civil War was only brought under control by Cromwell's benevolent dictatorship.
75. That is why soldiers called Metaxas and Papadopoulos have from time to time felt obliged to step forward and try a spot of military dictatorship.
76. During the Salazar dictatorship Madeira fared badly, particularly after the revolt in the island in 1931.
77. I have an efficient government -- a rigid dictatorship.
78. There is no short cut from dictatorship to democracy.
79. Can we refrain from exercising the people's democratic dictatorship?
80. One of these forces was dictatorship or despotism.
81. They can now establish outright dictatorship.
82. Sociologists have studied and described it. Socialists have tried to it by dictatorship and central planning.
83. We have clearly written in that document that this is organising competition under the dictatorship of the proletariate .
84. However the Republic did not solve any constitutional problem but become centralized step by step . It was separatists' dictatorship under the cloak of republicanism .
85. I wouldn't argue that the Revolutionary Guard are supplanting Ahmadinejad and Khamenei. However, I think the latter have actually spearheaded Iran's transition to military dictatorship(sentencedict.com), " he said.
86. The total deaths caused by the group born in the dark days of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship is 856.
87. Members of a Paraguayan socialist group hold a demonstration against the former dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, in Asuncion August 16, 2006.
88. Many of her stories deal with a long life, which started happily and then had to steer through Spain's vicious Civil War and the long years of dictatorship by General Francisco Franco which followed.
89. But I did not realise the full extent of Gaddafi's dictatorship, the way he had stamped himself on to our country, until I visited an internet cafe in Manchester and looked up my homeland.
90. Only in California in 1850 from Spain's colonial rule to join the U. S. Federal Before that, the last Governor of La Fuer high pressure to deal with the dictatorship of local people, suffering people.
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