noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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elective
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Lord Hailsham spoke of elective dictatorship .
military
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Everything is now in place for a rigged election that seems likely to usher in a military dictatorship .
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Since 1980, 57 countries have replaced military dictatorships or other forms of one-party rule with democratic elections.
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In Montevideo the Frente Amplio was founded as a coalition of diverse left currents against the military dictatorship .
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Only military dictatorship would be capable of sustaining an ordered society in the aftermath of such a conflict.
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The 1966 Constitution was suspended in 1973 and replaced by a military dictatorship .
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Outside the town, the killing goes on, despite the transition in 1985 from military dictatorship to elected civilian government.
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There is a new insistence on the illegitimacy of debts incurred by military dictatorships and other repressive regimes.
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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 .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ethiopia's dictatorship was toppled by Eritrean and Ethiopian rebels.
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How do we explain the rise in European dictatorship in the 1930s?
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In 1971, the country's 10 year military dictatorship came to an end.
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Residence permits are a remnant of Stalin's dictatorship .
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The country has been moving toward dictatorship .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Britain in mid-1979 was unlikely to lurch into any drastic transformation, let alone a dictatorship .
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Despite the dictatorship , major unrest broke out.
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Everything is now in place for a rigged election that seems likely to usher in a military dictatorship .
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Is dictatorship more easily defined than democracy?
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Press photos by Nancy Urrut a dating from 1980 give an appalling view into what daily life in the dictatorship looked like.
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That is carried to such an extreme that we will recognise dictatorships and ignore the coups which bring some despots to power.
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The political difficulties included the moral dictatorship of Pandit Nehru and his family, which posed formidable succession problems.
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This was to have a United Nations as a world policeman, able to intervene against dictatorships which threaten other countries.