"Dictatorial powers" refers to the authority or control that a dictator holds over a country or group of people. It means having unrestricted and absolute power to make decisions without the consent or input of others, often resulting in an oppressive or tyrannical rule.
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He saw the demoralizing implications of the concordat between the Hitler - led German government and the Vatican that was signed in 1933 as Hitler was
consolidating dictatorial powers.
I.e., if he
keeps dictatorial power past the three months, Egypt's revolution will have traded Mubarak for a Muslim Brother Mubarak.
So insistent are the pressures that even peoples who are not yet prepared to assume the responsibilities of self - government claim their independence and then pay a heavy price in internal chaos and strife, with the likelihood of having to settle for order
by dictatorial power rather than by consent.
That day is when Arsenal's clock stopped ticking and for Wenger too, who thereafter sold his soul to the devil, for money,
increased dictatorial power and esp Kroenkes filthy money and non caring ownership.
It's (to say the least) unlikely that the Tories will agree to PR, when the alternative is David Cameron
getting dictatorial powers for 10 - 15 years.
As he settles into his new life, the country is experiencing its own turmoil: an oil embargo has led to martial law and civil war, with the government being led by a man with Fascist ambitions who uses the energy crisis, violent street demonstrations, and a mass shooting to give himself
new dictatorial powers and establish a force of Special Police.
A failed experiment in mayoral control that has disenfranchised parents, educators, and communities and that allows the mayor to
exercise dictatorial power through his Panel for Educational Policy (PEP).
If local communities counted, school reform would never be a top - down affair; but school reform in Connecticut IS a top - down affair, precisely
because dictatorial powers are needed, by the «reformers,» to get around local resistance.
Much contemporary theology has been attempting to undo the assimilation of the idea of God into that of a controlling and
dictatorial power.
Thus, Roman law gave
a dictatorial power to the pater familias.
This, then, is about the Derby field that I would pick if I had
dictatorial powers.
Somebody should whittle down Wenger's
dictatorial power that is affecting the Club negatively.
Others said Heastie and Flanagan had not only failed to deliver on their promises to open the Legislature's notoriously secretive processes to greater public scrutiny but also abandoned their pledges to reduce the near -
dictatorial powers that leaders have over individual legislators.
If you have
dictatorial powers, as Snow does, and control over the media, as this government does, then how can you not besmirch a name?
The engrossing tale hinges on
the dictatorial powers of the Captain Nemat, who acts as salesman, matchmaker and power of attorney for the trusting residents of the slowly - sinking ship.
But, along the way, on his road to near -
dictatorial power, Stark begins cutting deals, bullying his enemies, and turning his state into a piggy - bank for himself and his cronies.
And North Korea flowered following a surprisingly benevolent relinquishment of
dictatorial power.