totalitarian rule

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalitarianandrule

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totalitarian
adjective
uk
/təʊˌtæl.ɪˈteə.ri.ən/us
/toʊˌtæl.əˈter.i.ən/
of or being a political system in which those in power have complete control and do not allow people freedom to ...
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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 oftotalitarianandrulefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftotalitarian rule

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The two paths tend to diverge, one toward liberty, the other towardtotalitarianrule.
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What is more, the theory oftotalitarianrulehas developed in various directions.
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Undertotalitarianrule, it is simply a fact that one breakfast or one suppressed student demonstration can, in the right circumstances, set history in motion.
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We must give every encouragement to reform and to democratisation in its broadest sense, rather than go along with backsliding intototalitarianrule.
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He has no more choice than the boys and men living undertotalitarianruleto whom we extend our sympathy.
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Some trust him because they sympathise withtotalitarianrule.
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I believe that direction is a fundamental principle oftotalitarianrule, opposed to the spirit of this peculiar and rather lovely democracy of ours.
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They represent a symbolic break with a past that, for so many, was characterised by conflict, invasion andtotalitarianrule.
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They have extricated themselves, without a great deal of help from anybody else, from one form oftotalitarianrulewithout falling into the other and opposite form.
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Parliaments proved to be not strong enough to defend democracy from economic collapse and the rise of various forms of dictatorial andtotalitarianrule.
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It seeks to promote the human dependency on robots and gradually imposetotalitarianrulein the area under its control.
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Its goal is described as helping prevent intolerance, extremism, anti-democratic movements and the recurrence of anytotalitarianrulein the future.
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Thetotalitarianruleresulted in a relative artistic stagnation in which amusement and musical experimentation were frowned upon.
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The crisis in fact culminated in total war (19391945) and near-destruction worldwide of democratic institutions and ways of life by the storms of mechanised war, dictatorship andtotalitarianrule.
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Their central frame is that the national is imperiled by a secret and sinister conspiracy seeking to crush democracy and install some form of eviltotalitarianrule.
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