Reign
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Last month, Nihalni’s
reign
of cultural terror came to a head, with the review board demanding 72 cuts from the big-budget Bollywood film Udta Punjab (“Flying Punjab”), a gritty tale centered on the drug culture that is prevalent in the eponymous northwestern Indian state.
China routinely rotates the highest executive positions, as it realizes that a change of power prevents tyrants from gaining excessive power, a lesson learned painfully during Mao's long and often disastrous
reign.
The country’s wrenching political struggle over the past several years has, at bottom, concerned what will happen after the ailing 81-year-old king’s reign, now at 63 years, comes to an end.
For him and the team that took over after Helmut Kohl’s 16-year reign, Germany had become a normal country, no different from other European heavyweights like France or Britain.
During his reign, the current Dalai Lama has seen his homeland – the world’s largest and highest plateau – lose its independence to China.
The Kuchma regime’s vast wealth, stolen from ordinary Ukrainians, suggested that the
reign
of thuggery and deceit could go on forever.
The mystical 12th Imam of Shia Islam disappeared as a child in 941 CE, and Shia Muslims have awaited his reappearance ever since, believing that when he returns, he will
reign
on earth for seven years, before bringing about the Last Judgment and the end of the world.
Indeed, not since Japan rose to world-power status during the
reign
of the Meiji Emperor (1867-1912) has another non-Western power emerged with such potential to shape the global order.
An immense effort would be required of women’s-rights activists to be prevent a
reign
of injustice.
This debt was incurred during the 30-year
reign
of the deposed president, Hosni Mubarak.
During his reign, Thailand was transformed from a poor country into Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy.
During Bhumibol’s reign, royalists, in alliance with the military, rebuilt the monarchy’s image.
Yet another explanation is that the junta is stalling so that it can maneuver Vajiralongkorn’s sister, the beloved Princess Sirindhorn, into power instead, even though there is no constitutional basis in Thailand for a woman to
reign.
Solidarity veterans believed that the dictatorship’s demise would be followed by their own
reign.
No country in the world deserved all three more, ravaged as it was for two decades by massive United States bombing, civil war, a genocidal
reign
of terror by the Khmer Rouge, invasion by Vietnam, and more civil war – with some two million dead as a result.
Now, it is possible that Republican legislators may rebel against their leaders, arguing that they ran for office to govern, not to paralyze the government in the hope that doing so will give the party power to
reign
as it wishes after the next election.
Competition has forced firms to transform; government allowed them free
reign
to do so; and they have done it.
After all, the gold standard’s last
reign
ended disastrously in the 1930s, and there is no reason to believe that a return to it would turn out any differently.
This case –the first-ever terrorist attack in a Western capital using a radioactive weapon – will be remembered as a hallmark of Putin’s ruthless and corrupt
reign.
If anyone can make one long for the tender mercies of Kim Jong-il’s reign, it is his son, Kim Jung-un.
Mugabe’s first visit to China was in 1980, just six months after independence; he made 13 more during his tenure, and high-level visits by other Zimbabwean officials were even more frequent, occurring roughly once every two years during Mugabe’s
reign.
The first Turkish ruler to
reign
over the Ecumenical Patriarchate was Mehmed II, the Ottoman Sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453.
Bringing the tribal system and its mores into the mainstream and under the rule of law will be an important component in the effort to end the
reign
of terror in both countries.
But the new account fails to explain or analyze crucial events of Hirohito’s
reign.
The Fall of the UNSaddam Hussein's
reign
of terror is about to end.
Assad’s
reign
of terror must end, but the aftermath must be handled carefully.
The Minotaur’s intense loneliness was comparable only to the fear it inspired far and wide, because its voracious appetite could be satisfied – thereby guaranteeing Minos’s
reign
– only by human flesh.
And Thailand’s troubles may be about to worsen: With King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s health failing, his seven-decade
reign
may be near its end.
The future of Putin’s extended
reign
is highly uncertain.
Not since Japan rose to world-power status during the Meiji emperor’s
reign
in the second half of the nineteenth century has another non-Western power emerged with such potential to alter the world order as China today.
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