praetorian
Example Sentences
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Bashir had empowered Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, to run the RSF as a praetorian guard to protect him against possible challenges from within the army.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
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
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
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
