Sentences with phrase «become dictatorial»

The picture that emerged from the committee's recommendations was of a dog pound that is a killing machine, run by an official who has ruled his little fiefdom so long he has become both dictatorial and callous.
This book takes the view that governments will become dictatorial as they get more desperate.
It is a necessary ingredient of democracy without which the government will soon become dictatorial and take the people for granted.
He became dictatorial: «No new practices should be introduced, unless the gospel has first been thoroughly preached and understood.»

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As leader of the Greater London Council, Ken became so inundated with enquiries resulting from the GLC Welfare Rights Project that he enforced, with dictatorial severity, a paper - recyclable dress code.
He then became something of a controversial figure, with GOP chairs and operatives grousing about his dictatorial management style and — at least once — calling for his ouster.
On June 23 of 2013, protesters came out and asked to resign immediately; the protesters argued that he was becoming «dictatorial».
Experiments fail, computers crash, advisors become neglectful or, even worse, dictatorial.
When Alma becomes entwined with Reynolds, his needs prove dictatorial.
Katniss Everdeen, whose defiance of the dictatorial President Snow has ignited the masses across all the impoverished districts, has become the symbol of the rebellion.
While I'm fairly parsimonious with which apps I let notify me on my phone, I've become downright dictatorial on the Watch, and that realization came from weeks of receiving messages about things I couldn't, and shouldn't, interact with from my wrist.
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