praetorian
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Dictators obviously maintain unilateral control of their militaries, employed as they invariably are as praetorian protectors and coercive extensions of their autocratic overlords.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2023
Key aspects of the effort to achieve legitimacy were thus more praetorian or Bonapartist than fascist.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2017
Here is a look at five other incidents that have marred the record of the White House's praetorian guard.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2014
After the deaths of two brothers, Mr. Assad has only one left — Maher al-Assad, the chief of the elite praetorian guards charged with protecting the family.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2012
A third category of troops, which, although greatly inferior in number to the legions and auxiliaries, played an exceptionally influential rôle in the history of the principate, was the praetorian guard.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
