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  • noun Plural form of misrule.

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Examples

  • The clerical regime that misrules Iran is imploding in slow-motion while intensifying its repression at home and threatening behavior abroad.

    Behind the Islamic Republic's Bluster Shirin Ebadi 2011

  • Two additional novels that cover other pieces of the same turf, Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" and Allen Drury's "Advise and Consent," are no less valuable to foreigners seeking to understand how America rules (and misrules) itself.

    America for Arabs -- In Translation 2007

  • Being the fact that blacks are the indomitable population with majority being Christians converted to Islamic due to pressure from misrules of Sudan government, hence the government of the people of Sudan republic seems to have identified this as a major future obstacles towards their leadership style or superiority, this has developed the ill motive and hatred, and the crucial idea of eliminating black had to be implemented for safety and for future Arabs rule in Republic of Sudan.

    Can we save Darfur from torture? 2007

  • And I come to know the certainty of this truth when some men do recount and show unto me tokens of the things I have done whilst this terrible accident overrules me; and after I can do no more than be grieved, though in vain, and curse, without benefit, my too froward fortune, and render as an excuse of my madness the relation of the cause thereof to as many as please to hear it; for wise men perceiving the cause will not wonder at the effects, and though they give me no remedy, yet at least will not condemn me; for it will convert the anger they conceive at my misrules into compassion for my disgraces.

    The Third Book. XIII. How the Curate and the Barber Put Their Design in Practice, with Many Other Things Worthy to Be Recorded in This Famous History 1909

  • I came here In good faith, and I quit the place with the resolution that never again shall I entrust myself to the vagaries of any Jack-in-office who thinks he can browbeat a man of my repute like one of the wretched natives whom he misrules. "

    The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

  • Failing to condition the United States 'Cuba policy on reforms and yielding to Havana's braggadocio strengthens the hard-line gerontocracy that misrules the island and inspires the world's like-minded despots to parrot Fidel Castro's anti-American rant. "

    ScreenTalk 2009

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