theocracy

The scene, which Günes said last took place two months ago, is a snapshot not from a stern theocracy ruled by capricious clerics, but from the capital of Europe’s largest economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

But there are more pressing priorities for Iran's theocracy in this moment.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Iran’s government is an explicit theocracy with the ayatollah, the supreme leader, maintaining both a religious and political role.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026

They’re poignant reminders of a time in L.A.’s Westwood “Tehrangeles” neighborhood when, in the years just after the 1979 Iranian revolution, immigrants here made music while their homeland roiled with ascendant theocracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025

Here and there, as in the Puritan theocracy, they heard and tried to obey the challenge.

From The Coming of Coal by Robert W. Bruere

The pope vowed that the church was not in the business of building theocracies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

They came here to escape war, political and religious persecution, lack of opportunity and corrupt systems lead by despotic strongmen or brutal theocracies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

From theocracies to autocracies and, of course, some democracies too, the list is long.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2022

Believe it or not, many people who live in them don't want to live in theocracies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2018

The exclusiveness of the New England theocracies, already relaxed in its application to other sects, was thenceforth at an end.

From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon