theocracy
Example Sentences
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They will test the theocracy to see whether the war has attenuated its strength.
Iran’s government is an explicit theocracy with the ayatollah, the supreme leader, maintaining both a religious and political role.
From Salon
She added that her family was happy, but that they expected the collapse of the theocracy to take a longer time.
From Los Angeles Times
Of these culturally Muslim, rural working classes often credited with wanting a theocracy, my mother says “they just wanted someone to give them their rights. The only thing that united them was basic human needs.”
But I also don’t think it’s going to be a theocracy anymore.
From Salon
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