one-party rule
collocation in Englishmeaningsofone-partyandrule
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one-party
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌwʌnˈpɑː.ti/us/ˌwʌnˈpɑːr.t̬i/
involving only one ...
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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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In the process,one-partyrulewas almost destroyed.
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In 1990, however, donors and creditors joined in the call for an end toone-partyrule.
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Here he identifies two schools, one ' modernist ', one ' communitarian ', each with its own myopic critique ofone-partyrule.
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Following continuous dialogue between the two, the scene was set for transition fromone-partyruleto multipartyism.
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Thus, enclave rulers must pursue their goals within a polity featuring substantial popular control of office holding in the form ofone-partyrule.
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Worse still, the loss ofone-partyrulewould mean the loss of influence in the federal government and the national party.
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Because respondents rejected one-man andone-partyrule, multiparty democracy was left, by a process of elimination, as the only preferred prospect in the popular imagination.
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This is due partly to the legacy of almost three decades ofone-partyrule, but also to the uncertainty of loyalties and the volatility of the electorate.
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That great divide is the consequence of nearly 18 years ofone-partyrule.
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Civil society was oppressed by arbitraryone-partyruleand was permeated with fear and suspicion.
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First, we advocate an electoral system that will avoid the dangers of entrenchedone-partyrule.
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The economic position facing us today comes after 17 years ofone-partyrule.
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I accept that and recognise thatone-partyrulein perpetuity would be difficult.
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The saving grace is that they were the first multi-party elections after a long period ofone-partyrule.
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That signalled the end of 71 years—not 18 years—of what was in effectone-partyrule.
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Secondly, in parts of the country, decades ofone-partyrulehave bred arrogance and downright corruption.
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Repressiveone-partyrulehas made it difficult to set up normal party politics and public accountability.
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Instead, the achievement of an era ofone-partyruleis an underclass, with all the unjust consequences.
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Worrying things are happening in the civil service, partly, alas, because of theone-partyrulethat has prevailed in the past decade or so.
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They were inspired by those events to call for similar peaceful change to democratic plural democracy away from autocraticone-partyrule.
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One of the arguments is that the first-past-the-post system has led to stable government based onone-partyrule.
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On present evidence, if there were to be an election in the next year or two, there could well beone-partyrule.
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It has avoided the twin traps of autocracy andone-partyrulewhich so many of her neighbours have stumbled into.
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