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, which includes several siblings who until recently held Cabinet positions, of precipitating the crisis through corruption and misrule.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2022
Economic distress and arbitrary misrule beset Virginia for sixteen years, culminating in a popular outbreak known as Bacon's rebellion.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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