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
“It’s an army within an army, the regime’s praetorian guard,” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 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
For some time he was under the control of his mother’s eunuchs, till Timesitheus,1 his father-in-law and praefect of the praetorian guard, persuaded him to assert his independence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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