misrule

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

Nigeria's election next week marks nearly a quarter century of democracy in Africa's most populous nation, which in previous decades had become a byword for coups and military misrule.

From Reuters ● Feb. 17, 2023

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

But Filipinos seemed ready to embrace their democratic rights and move on from Marcos’s misrule.

From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022

When the Americans rose against British misrule, their commanders were always treated with military courtesy.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

They also want an overhaul of a system of governance, saying successive administrations since independence from Britain in 1948 have misruled the country leading to economic and social crises.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022

Mr Kabila has misruled Congo for the past 17 years, after he took over from his father, who was shot by a bodyguard.

From Economist ● Jun. 1, 2017

Far from being at the heart of a new Asia, sullen and misruled Central Asia languishes, for now, on the periphery.

From Economist ● Aug. 20, 2015

There will be no dramatic moment of closure on the era of Muhammad Hosni al-Sayyid Mubarak, the man who ruled and misruled Egypt for 30 years before being overthrown in early 2011.

From Newsweek ● Jun. 25, 2012

Jerusalem has been captured from the Turks; all Palestine has passed into the hands of the Allies; never again can Turkey have dominion over the land she has so horribly misruled.

From Studies in Prophecy by Gaebelein, Arno C.