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  • noun Plural form of dictatorship.

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Examples

  • In an interview, Mr. Cuomo said, "If you believe in dictatorships, vote for him."

    Buffalo Native Makes It a Street Fight Jacob Gershman 2010

  • "I have always [been] very critical of all kinds of dictatorships, dictatorships from the left, dictatorships from the right," he said.

    Peruvian Writer Says His Nobel is Tribute to Latin American Literature 2010

  • "I have always [been] very critical of all kinds of dictatorships, dictatorships from the left, dictatorships from the right," he said.

    Peruvian Writer Says His Nobel is Tribute to Latin American Literature 2010

  • Producing in dictatorships like China and meeting “their laws” is just ridiculous.

    Wal-Mart’s “Company of the Future”: Supply Chain 2008

  • Protesting evil dictatorships is typically a waste of time, because evil dictatorships are notably unresponsive to popular sentiment.

    Safety and Sexism 2007

  • When have pro-democracy efforts to help dissidents in dictatorships * not* led to some getting arrested, from the Soviet era onward?

    Matthew Yglesias » Democracy, Now? 2007

  • Them mentality are those who ignore the likes of the North Koreans, the Chinese, the various African Genocide, the various Islamist Genocides and massacres, the Latin American dictatorships, and on and on and on.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Cleansing his country of Soviet influence meant little more than replacing it with a sickly suffocating cult of personality, but in dictatorships the line between necessary political hygiene and nauseating self-promotion is often a fine one, and especially so in a land where the leading soap powder is called Barf.

    One-Man Stan 2007

  • Cleansing his country of Soviet influence meant little more than replacing it with a sickly suffocating cult of personality, but in dictatorships the line between necessary political hygiene and nauseating self-promotion is often a fine one, and especially so in a land where the leading soap powder is called Barf.

    One-Man Stan 2007

  • Cleansing his country of Soviet influence meant little more than replacing it with a sickly suffocating cult of personality, but in dictatorships the line between necessary political hygiene and nauseating self-promotion is often a fine one, and especially so in a land where the leading soap powder is called Barf.

    One-Man Stan 2007

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