Example sentences for: dictatorship

How can you use “dictatorship” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1967 a military dictatorship seized power in Greece.

  • Between 1936 and 1940 Greece was under the military dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas, remembered for the resounding óchi (“no”) he gave in reply to Mussolini’s ultimatum to surrender in 1940.

  • In 1999, with the election of President Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria emerged from approximately 20 years of military dictatorship in which little governmental attention or funding was directed at addressing HIV/AIDS [4].

  • But "this ecological catastrophe--for it is an immense one--is above all the result of a misguided government policy," in effect since the early 1970s when a military dictatorship was in power, that sought to populate the Amazonian forest with poor peasants from northeastern Brazil.

  • 4. "Protesting tire-maker Michelin's plan to cut 7,500 jobs from its workforce, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin told reporters, 'We didn't renounce the dictatorship of the proletariat just to replace it with the dictatorship of the shareholders.


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