| On another occasion, she publicly denounced the Chief Minister of another State for the latter's criminal misrule. |
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| At the same time the Ottoman Empire, increasingly plagued by corruption and misrule, was sliding ever closer to its eventual disintegration. |
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| But certainly he's been playing this card as a way of deflecting criticism from his own rule or misrule as the case may be. |
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| Take Liberia for example, wracked by a 14-year civil war, sparked by political misrule and economic collapse. |
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| Like All Hallows Eve, Twelfth Night was a night of revels, performances, masking, costumes, and misrule. |
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| Is it not true that power politics is the main cause of opportunism which enhances corruption and political misrule? |
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| The empire eventually weakened due to large-scale corruption and nepotism, overtaxation, and misrule. |
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| The theme of misrule in Twelfth Night was apt for the Candlemas performance. |
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| But the world was to pay a price beyond imagining for the consolidation of bureaucratic misrule in the Soviet Union. |
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| Moreover the misrule and riot that they keep in those houses is very great, for very wantonly they sport and dally together. |
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| And Nigeria is, after all, a relatively young democracy, having shaken off decades of military misrule barely five years ago. |
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| As our leader argues:A refugee crisis is hard to cope with because its very existence is a symptom of warfare, persecution or misrule. |
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| They're a sad political legacy of decades of corruption and misrule. |
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| The recent explosion of popular anger comes after centuries of misrule. |
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| These were the bitter fruits of Stalinist misrule, which had come to a head under the weight of burgeoning foreign debts. |
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| Of course, it is a shame that both politicians are massively compromised: by allegations of corruption, brutishness and former misrule. |
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| Communist misrule has ensured that the malnourished people are left out in the cold and are deprived of proper medical care. |
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| They include hotshots and slowcoaches, places that feel thoroughly modern and those where the air still bears a rancid tang from past misrule. |
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| Economic growth and a popular, stable government mean Poles are not fuming about misrule. |
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| But that enmity has been intensified by the effects of Stalinist bureaucratic misrule, particularly in the last two decades. |
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| After decades of warfare and misrule, Afghanistan is one of the world's poorest countries. |
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| The causes of this phenomenon were identified as including political misrule, moral confusion, the failure of the state and economic disparities. |
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| The move spawned rampant corruption and misrule and led to a bitter civil war that ended with the victory of the genocidal Khmer Rouge communists. |
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| Such political scientists have since been recanting and admitting that One Party states simply bred autocracy and misrule by refusing to tolerate criticism and dissent. |
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| Many saw the advent of civilian rule as an opportunity to restore hope to Nigeria's 120 million people and repair an economy shattered by years of misrule. |
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| There must be some lessons we can take from the past eight years of mean-spirited misrule in Ontario, but right now we're just ecstatic to see the back of the Tory government. |
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| How can we misrule with impunity if there is no serious opposition? |
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| Even the most sceptical political observers would have to admit that inter-party competition curbs misrule by subjecting the governing party to the relentless scrutiny of its rivals. |
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| Diamonds in the region have been implicated in terrible wars,' Gberie said, 'and have compounded the corruption and misrule that have had such corrosive effects. |
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| What we are talking about is nothing less than offsetting and overcoming half a century of Soviet occupation, oppression, misrule and marginalisation. |
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| Living conditions in Afghanistan are grim, reflecting the violence and deprivations suffered by Afghans for more than a quarter-century of foreign occupation and domestic misrule. |
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| Its aid deliveries in cash, kind or technical assistance are decided with the sole aim of relieving human suffering whether the cause is a natural disaster or misrule by an oppressive regime. |
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| The unrest is the latest upheaval to disturb the mineral-rich country, which has been plagued by multiple wars and weakened by decades of misrule. |
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| Apart from the rule of Agha Mohammad Khan, the Qajar rule is characterized as a century of misrule. |
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| But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the misrule and turbulency of the prelates? |
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| It would have been better to try to solve the misrule within the framework of the federation, in place of reactionary and chauvinistic currents playing off their misdoings against others to secure their own narrow interests. |
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| America and its allies need to appreciate that there are several well-governed African countries in which investments on a meaningful scale would fuel regional economic development rather than corruption and misrule. |
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| After all, Afghanistan had suffered decades of war and misrule. |
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| After decades of conflict and misrule, Afghans in 2004 and 2005 elected a president and Parliament with a declared commitment to democratic governance and fairly shared development. |
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| The more information that is openly available from the government and about the government, the less likely will that government be able to hide illegal acts, corruption and misrule. |
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| Institutions have been debilitated by war and misrule. |
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| In his television spots, citizens reminisce about the worst examples of PRI and PAN misrule, and ask if the blockade of Paseo de la Reforma was such a big deal by comparison. |
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| Though Colonel Qaddafi may seem in hindsight a paper tiger, such is the fear and dissimulation he has injected over four decades of misrule that he continues to cast a long shadow. |
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| A decade ago, Afghans were exhausted by years of war and misrule. |
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| The rhetoric continued but it became an alibi for British misrule and racism. |
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| Reaction to Ottoman misrule led to uprisings by both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, although none were successful. |
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| One night just before Yuletide, the Lord of Misrule pursued the Wren Boys through London's cobbled streets. |
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| Our pagan ancestors had a wild and boozy time presided over by the Lord of Misrule, who got up to rude and mischievous pranks. |
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| The records of student revels at the Inn showed them electing a Prince of Misrule whose reign ended on February 2nd. |
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| Cromwell's Puritanism was offended by bacchanalian revelry, led by the Lord of Misrule. |
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| The songs they sang were traditional and tied in with pre-Victorian mid-winter celebrations where the Lord of Misrule presided over jollities which were rather wild at heart. |
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| Dale Cockrell has noted that blackface was used not just in Shakespeare's Othello, but also in Callithumpian bands and in Lord of Misrule festivities. |
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| He was a member of a group called the Lords Of Misrule who re-enact lost medieval plays and he played Robin in their production of Robin And Marion. |
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