theocracy

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

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

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 ● Mar. 1, 2026

Perhaps no less important, this compendium captures both the end of the Pahlavi monarchy and the start of the theocracy that still governs Iran, granting viewers an often telling glimpse of Persian society in flux.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

We might use the term theocracy, although it's a little more complicated than that.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2024

Theoretically the Society of Friends is a theocracy; the Spirit alone rules and directs, effacing all distinctions of rank or sex.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

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

In conclusion, we may say, that it was cosmography, that constructed the dogmas of the Druidical religion, which was, in its essential elements, the same as that of the old Oriental theocracies.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake