dictatorship
Example Sentences
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In almost every movie about life under a dictatorship, there is a scene where the security services order someone to “show me your papers.”
From Salon
Argentine officials last week published almost 500 pages of intelligence documents dating from 1973-1983, including the seven-year period of the military dictatorship.
From Barron's
Merz replied that Germans owed a debt to Americans as in the long run "this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."
From Barron's
“It was a dictatorship that worked from a perspective of building certain legitimacy, keeping the congress functioning, but of course, after purging dissent,” explains the Brazilian historian.
From Los Angeles Times
People who have lived under a dictatorship for almost half a century are forced to survive and rise within a sick system.
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