misrule

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In April 1930, Gandhi concluded his pivotal salt march, breaking the British monopoly on salt production - a charged symbol of colonial misrule.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

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

Just ask Haitians in Miami who have long suffered under terror and misrule, or ask the Central Americans who fled civil wars.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2022

“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

Order supplanted confusion, and wholesome authority succeeded to anarchy and misrule.

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.