support a dictatorship
Frequency: 5.56.7 per million words
to agree with and give encouragement to a dictatorship
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Examples (10)
- It's hard to believe that any nation would openly support such a brutal dictatorship.
- Historically, certain business interests financially supported the military dictatorship to protect their assets.
- By remaining silent, they were seen as tacitly supporting the dictatorship.
- Why would any citizen support a dictatorship that suppresses their own freedom?
- Some people claimed they supported the dictatorship out of a desire for order and stability.
- The journalist made it clear he would never support any form of dictatorship, left-wing or right-wing.
- Supporting a repressive dictatorship is a violation of international human rights principles.
- The intelligence report suggested that a neighboring state might secretly support the emerging dictatorship.
- The totalitarian dictatorship was supported by a powerful elite who benefited from its policies.
- The state-controlled media was a key tool used to support the dictatorship and spread its ideology.