How to Use theocracy in a Sentence

theocracy

noun

• The passage of time hasn’t been kind to Iran’s theocracy.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2023
• In many ways, the calls for an end to the theocracy seem unstoppable.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
• This is where theocracy brings us, over and over again.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 7 Jan. 2015
• The poor were thought to be the regime’s last bastion of power, tied to theocracy by piety and the welfare state.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• In its 40th year, Iran’s theocracy looks in poor health.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• The strictures of the theocracy and the doctrine of Shia supremacy alienate many.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
• The protests are the most significant challenge to the theocracy in more than a decade.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2022
• Like the regimes in Beijing and Moscow, the theocracy in Tehran has grown bolder.
  — Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• In the wake of Amini’s death in 2022, mass protests calling for the theocracy’s dissolution broke out Iran and around the world.
  — Anika Seth, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• This is not the first time the theocracy at the helm of the Iranian government has cracked down on women protesting for greater rights.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• In Tehran, the virus began moving through the government and the Shiite theocracy.
  — Fox News, 17 Mar. 2020
• In Iran, women rose up against the theocracy, fed up with its repressive rules.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 6 Jan. 2023
• Two-thirds of the people in Iran want a democracy without a theocracy.
  — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2018
• Iran is a Shiite theocracy overseen from the top by Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state.
  — Nasser Karimi, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2018
• Founded in 1965 to oppose the Shah of Iran, the group later rejected the theocracy that replaced him.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2020
• Some might argue that memes have no role in the Iranian theocracy.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• The view in Riyadh is that Iran's theocracy faces an existential threat.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
• The first constituency to give up on theocracy was the students, whose protest in 1999 ended the attempt by the regime to reform itself.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• The theocracy in Tehran, the chief sponsor of terror in the world, was in its most fragile condition in its 40 years of existence.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Apr. 2021
• Even the woman who literally helped write the book on this theocracy is no longer allowed to read or write.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• From exile, the crown prince has agitated for an end to Iran's theocracy.
  — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
• But the 46-year-old believes firearms could have swayed the outcome of his student rebellion against theocracy, and keeps two Glock handguns.
  — Fortune, 13 Mar. 2018
• Wake up, people, Alito is one of the leaders in the movement to make this nation over into a theocracy.
  — Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022
• So far, Iran’s hard-line Islamic theocracy is not willing to go as far some women would like.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Left to itself, this notion could have led to the creation of self-righteous theocracies like the one some New England Puritans tried to build.
  — Alec Ryrie, CNN, 29 Oct. 2017
• As in, theocracy would make things so recognizably bad that people would rise up against it?
  — Ann Friedman, The Cut, 22 June 2017
• Iran has been called both a theocracy and a clerical oligarchy because of the power clerics hold.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
• It has been used to argue for theocracy and unquestioned obedience to law even in the fact of oppression.
  — Laura Nasrallah, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
• Removing traces of that theocracy, in the form of blasphemy laws, doesn’t mean that liberty is safe.
  — The Economist, 25 Aug. 2019
• Apocalypse in the Tropics focuses on how the evangelical movement paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro and continues to pose the threat of a national theocracy.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024