But there's a good chance the country might have veered toward more dictatorial rule were it not for the efforts of key State Department officials.

McKenzie was accused of exercising a dictatorial rule on campus.

He also remained actively involved in writing columns against the dictatorial rule of Musharraf.

Following violent resentment against the dictatorial rule of Sir.

During decades of dictatorial rule, as many as a million people have been relocated inside Iraq, aid organizations say.

He was again arrested in 2005 for his international campaign against the then dictatorial rule and for people's democracy in the country.

After that year a period of conservative and/or dictatorial rule starts.

Thailand had 50 years of dictatorial rule that nurtured the abuse of power.

Stalin held the entire eastern part of Europe under dictatorial rule for half a century.

Castro's dictatorial rule is a disgrace to the idea of democratic socialism.