Their most frightening point was that, even in established democracies, the point of maximum danger was a war-like crisis which demanded and justified dictatorial powers that were then never returned.

In effect, the consuls would be vested with dictatorial powers.

Though a friend of the crown, he opposed feudal privileges and dictatorial powers.

He declined an offer from the military to assume dictatorial powers.

This can be done in order to achieve the look of democracy and legitimacy while preserving dictatorial powers.

The team join tens of thousands of people who have fled a dictatorial regime, widespread poverty and compulsory military service.

However bloodless the coup was the start of a dictatorial regime worse than the one that it had replaced.

In the 2030s she joins the underground, and plays a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorial regime and instituting a libertarian utopia.

He was fired from there in 1973, while the dictatorial regime still existed.

The companies and projects in which banks invest are controversial because of their support for dictatorial regimes, forced displacements and forced labour.

Its proponents must recognise that ending dictatorial rule could open the way for democracy and a culture of human rights.

Opposition figures have accused the president of fabricating the incident as a pretext to consolidate his dictatorial rule.

The song incited the population to revolt against dictatorial rule, seeking for freedom and independence.

He was again arrested in 2005 for his international campaign against the then dictatorial rule and for people's democracy in the country.

After that year a period of conservative and/or dictatorial rule starts.