How to Use theocratic in a Sentence

theocratic

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• And the state’s theocratic overlords don’t seem to care.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 25 Oct. 2019
• But what followed is shaking the theocratic state to its core.
  — Kay Armin Serjoie, Time, 24 Sep. 2022
• But what shocked Nemat the most was the speed of her nation's descent into a theocratic regime in 1979.
  — Yaffa Fredrick, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• But there’s a growing sense that the violent playbook the theocratic regime has used to crush dissent in the past won’t work this time.
  — Omid Khazani and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• Here’s a look at how the recent wave of protests and strikes in Iran and the talks over the nuclear deal are intertwined for the country’s theocratic regime.
  — Omid Khazani, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
• That all changed after the overthrow of Iran’s Shah and rise of the current theocratic government.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2020
• Three decades of theocratic rule has transformed Iran into one of the most secular nations in the world.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2017
• A peaceful popular movement seemed to have brought the theocratic regime to its knees.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• Not for the first time, demonstrators have taken to the streets to challenge the theocratic regime in Tehran, and the ayatollah’s death squads are getting to work.
  — The Editors, National Review, 26 Sep. 2022
• The protests following her death mushroomed into the largest challenge to the theocratic regime since its founding in 1979.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• While those in power have continued their grip on things, there are signs of weakness and rot from within the theocratic regime.
  — John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2019
• The Taliban imposed stern theocratic rule and gave the terrorist group al-Qaeda a base.
  — Nick Wadhams | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2019
• The unrest, which was still roiling as Newsweek went to press, marked the third time in three decades that Iranians have demonstrated en masse against the theocratic regime in Tehran.
  — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2018
• Questions now abound whether the theocratic Islamic state is on the brink of collapse due to massive protests rocking Khamenei’s regime.
  — Fox News, 29 Nov. 2022
• Nothing in the 20th century could have prepared the world for the resulting theocratic state.
  — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• For decades, the American left has warned of a growing theocratic bent in America.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 5 May 2017
• Perhaps the recent religion cases are, as some have alleged, the work of a theocratic court.
  — Charles McCrary, The New Republic, 5 July 2022
• But the conflict has become more of a symptom than a cause of tumult in the region, the true source of which is Iran’s revolutionary, theocratic regime.
  — Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• The real source of Dawn’s terror, though, is not familial or theocratic but erotic.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• Many consider the protests one of the most serious challenges to Iran’s theocratic rule since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2023
• Inevitably, the first and foremost goals of the Iranian leadership are the survival of the Iranian nation and the continued rule of its theocratic regime.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, National Review, 9 Oct. 2017
• And in the stands, some Iranian fans sang the Persian anthem, a sound of protest aimed at the country’s theocratic government and its latest crackdowns on freedom.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Afterward, the northern Sayyids were scorned as relics of a benighted theocratic era, and many fell into poverty.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
• The story is set in the U.S. after a successful religious coup has resulted in theocratic rule and the loss of fertility among the wives of the wealthy male leaders.
  — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
• The religious ideologue lacks all humor, lacks any awareness of the distance between his theocratic dreams and the real world around him.
  — Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• The Taliban is back in power in Afghanistan and Iraq remains a geopolitical powder keg, somewhat aligned to Iran’s theocratic regime.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• It's built on preservation of a theocratic region, number one, above all others.
  — CBS News, 4 Feb. 2024
• An opposition boycott and widespread disenchantment set the mood, even as the theocratic regime pushed its citizens to come out to the polls.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• The theocratic state executed Bazargan’s brother, Bijan, during the waves of killings in 1988 to wipe out dissidents.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2022
• There’s a growing number of technocrats, business leaders and academics who see the current crisis in Gaza as the opportunity to confront the risk of Haredim pulling the country toward theocratic penury.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024