military rule
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmilitaryandrule
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military
adjective
uk/ˈmɪl.ɪ.tər.i/us/ˈmɪl.ə.ter.i/
relating to or belonging to the ...
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rule
noun
uk/ruːl/us/ruːl/
an accepted principle or instruction that states the way things are or should be done, and tells you what you are allowed or are not allowed ...
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(Definition ofmilitaryandrulefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He doubted the wisdom ofmilitaryruleof the south.
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At the onset ofmilitaryrule, they could even be said to be cordial and close.
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Without a doubt,militaryruleis the most unpopular form of governance in these three countries.
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Evidently,militaryrulehas lost most of its legitimacy in comparison to democracy.
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The legacy was a political stalemate in the 1950s and 1960s which resulted inmilitaryrule.
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Despite the achievements of democracy, many governing institutions still show the legacy ofmilitaryrule.
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We must look forward to six months at least ofmilitaryruleand severe coercion.
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A fragile era of democracy, this period was sandwiched between decades ofmilitaryrule.
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In short, it was a time of political polarization, caused above all by arbitrary, oppressivemilitaryrule.
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The tensions of this state-agrarianclass system were resolved in the twentieth century through the advent of institutionalmilitaryrule.
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The early promises to improve and democratise primary education were not fulfilled during the first ten years ofmilitaryrule.
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Or does it still play a perfunctory part as it did under three decades ofmilitaryrule?
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Respondents are asked their views on whether there should be a return to communist rule, strongman rule, ormilitaryrule.
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The number of politicians removed from office diminished significantly over the last ten years ofmilitaryrule.
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I believe that is themilitaryrule.
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The conditions and events that supportedmilitaryrulein the 1960s and 1970s began in the late nineteenth century, and had been consolidated by 1954.
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He does not see the need to illustrate an actual causal link betweenmilitaryruleand the reaction of the scholars.
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The extinction of state autonomy and the pre-emption of independent judicial review effectively precluded the development of judicial federalism undermilitaryrule.
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Communal conflicts have multiplied since the return to democracy in 1999, when fifteen years ofmilitaryrulecame to an end.
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This evolving tradition of judicial federalism, however, unravelled with the collapse of democracy and the re-imposition ofmilitaryrulefollowing fraudulent general elections in 1983.
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But it is in its defederalising effects that prolongedmilitaryrulehas been most destructive of efforts to deal with minority problems.
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But whereas many earlier experiences of populism ended inmilitaryrule, it is less clear where the ' neo-populists ' of the 1990s will now lead us.
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