misrule
Example Sentences
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He later resigned over accusations of corruption and misrule.
From BBC • Nov. 15, 2024
Lawmaker Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, first deputy head of the parliamentary committee on anti-corruption policy, said the shakeup partly sought to demonstrate that Kyiv saw cracking down on misrule as a key element of its Western integration.
From Reuters • Jan. 25, 2023
“The pattern of many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death,” the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said in a eulogy that seemed to speak to a world plagued by misrule.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2022
They accuse him and his powerful family that included several siblings holding top government positions of plunging the country into the crisis through corruption and misrule.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2022
God still with man, though not with man's misrule, Never with thee, daughter of force and fraud, Mother of guile—thy refuge and thy shame!
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.
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