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

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 Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly