9 sentences with 'dictator'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dictator and other words derived from it.
• « When Rome faced a major crisis, the Centurial Assembly could vote to appoint a dictator, a single man vested with all the power of the empire. »
• « Symbolically, the twenty-four licensees would accompany the dictator, who was supposed to use his almost unlimited power to save Rome from whatever threatened it, then resign and return to normality. »
• « Although the office of dictator could easily have led to an attempted takeover, for hundreds of years very few dictators abused their powers and instead respected the temporary nature of the Roman dictatorship itself. »
• « Louis Napoleon took the title Napoleon III (Napoleon II, Napoleon's first son, had died years earlier). Thus, within a few years the second experiment in democratic politics in France ended like the first: a popular dictator named Napoleon took over. »
• « Sicilian landowners, even the most reactionary, were forced to see that the only hope for law and order lay in the protection of this radical dictator and his revolution. Their gradual and reluctant transfer of allegiance to the insurrection was a decisive event and helped make possible the next phase of Garibaldi's astonishing conquest. »
• « Wilhelm Marr claimed that the Jews had "become without a blow" the socio-political dictator of Germany. »
• « From 1923 to 1930, a general named Primo de Rivera acted as a virtual dictator (with the support of the king) trying to drag Spain into the 20th century by building dams, roads and sewers. »
• « Another setback was that Hitler's attempt to get the Spanish to join the war failed, when Spanish dictator Franco indicated that Spain was simply too poor and weak, especially after its civil war, to join the Axis, despite the obvious political affinity between fascist Spain and Nazi Germany (Hitler said he would rather have his teeth pulled than endure another encounter like the one he suffered with Franco). »
• « In 1959, Cuban revolutionaries overthrew the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista (who had been an American ally), and fearing American intervention, eventually allied themselves with the USSR. Thus, when Kennedy took office in 1960, he faced not only the growing technological and military might of the USSR itself, but what he saw as a Soviet puppet on America's doorstep. »