How to Use theocrat in a Sentence

theocrat

noun

• Handjani said, pointing to the power of Khamenei and Iran’s Guardian Council, a body of theocrats that has the final say on all matters of the state.
  — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• Indeed, most of the time, they should be ignored — nobody wants, or, at least, should want, a government run by theocrats.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
• Obama speaks of government as a theocrat might speak of church, and his fans return the favor by treating him like a pope.
  — David Harsanyi, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2017
• Thomas Paine, of all people, was enlisted in the cause of an out-and-out theocrat, and the person who did so quoted him from the wrong pamphlet anyway.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Dec. 2017
• Iran’s theocrats have proved perfectly willing to keep order by force.
  — The Economist, 12 May 2018
• More Iranians are eager for ideas different than the dictates of unelected theocrats.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2017
• There's no way this passes constitutional muster unless the new majority on the Supreme Court goes full theocrat.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 June 2017
• Well a Republican Senate candidate is being denounced as a would-be theocrat for saying that men have a duty to lead.
  — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• Indeed, the Judge’s nationally renowned reputation as a grim theocrat is both his greatest strength and weakness.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Aug. 2017
• Victory for the theocrat would be a fillip for them, perhaps leading to a string of primary challenges to sitting Republicans next year.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• If a fundamentalist is someone who reads only one book, Roy Moore’s parsing of the Bible reveals a bigoted, pinched-down, punitive theocrat.
  — Allen Tullos, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2017
• Iran’s president has important sway over domestic affairs and as the face of Iran to the world, but all key policies such as diplomatic initiatives must be cleared by Khamenei and his inner circle of unelected theocrats.
  — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
• The veil has served as one of the most potent and visible symbols of the Islamic republic, a system in which ultimate authority resides with unelected theocrats.
  — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• The Iranian theocrats despise the Trump administration.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 20 June 2019
• Rafsanjani’s death reflects a growing reality for Tehran’s theocrats.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• Skepticism about Enlightenment values, in his view, comes from leftist humanities professors and highbrow-magazine editors who have read too much Nietzsche, or from theocrats on the right.
  — Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2018
• Roy Moore is a vehicle for collecting suckers, for liberating them from their responsibility as citizens in a self-governing republic, and anybody who thinks this waterheaded theocrat belongs in the United States Senate is a dupe and a fool.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Dec. 2017

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