Over the last four years, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly tried to undermine the ruling clerics control over political and policy decisions.

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Under a regime of popular sovereignty, we are free in a way that we are not under an absolute monarch or an entrenched aristocracy.

The Gambia has been under the grip of a tyrannical 'democracy' for almost thirty years.

Myanmar was under a military's dictatorship for 50 years.

The pirates did not have to contend with any central authority until the Alaouite Dynasty united Morocco in 1666.

Since then, the Kurds have suffered under the despotic rule of rival ethnic groups.

Under the communist regimes, ideologies became totally instrumental.

Kashani was the most powerful political cleric of his time.

It is an endangered species.

The king abused his power.

That's an abuse of authority.

Moreover, Islam does not have a priesthood, just scholars.

He made it even harder for them by cutting his carotid artery with a blade, says one of the newcomers, impressed by Taher s strength.

The Bosporan Kingdom also remained independent under Pharnaces II of Pontus as an ally and friend of Rome.

In 927 he conquered the last remaining Viking kingdom, York, making him the first Anglo Saxon ruler of the whole of England.

You are abusing your authority.

You are abusing your power!

Tom is abusing his authority.

The problem has been exacerbated by the growing wealth of a number of countries, some of them formerly run by socialist or communist regimes.

And few Americans recall that after the coup, the CIA installed a brutal police state under the Shah.

The remaining land has become fallow and the number of domestic animals traditionally kept by Chechen families has decreased.

Since 1320, it was under the rule of Lithuania, eventually becoming a part of the Russian state in 1505.

This event would eventually lead to the union of Egypt and Syria under Saladin, an inauspicious outcome for the crusader kingdom.

The omission of clerics from the narrative also forces us to consider the ideological historiography of the Islamic Republic.

Henry asserted the Church s right to investigate and judge all charges against members of the clergy.

It was able to do that itself.

He's rich and powerful.

In the Arab world, authoritarian governments have deprived people of political, civil, and intellectual freedoms for decades.

So does the disturbing continuity between the absence of legality prior to the occupation and now, under the formal authority of the occupying powers.

(d) The bill currently under consideration that aims at raising the age of marriage

Tom's father, who is in prison, never writes to Tom.

China under Hu has perhaps found its development model a form of Leninist capitalism with no aspirations toward a more democratic form of governance.

In fact, Country A is democratic India, and Country B is Pakistan the country that has a long period of military rule.

This decision may have stemmed from an assumption that the talks would collapse, thereby discrediting the Fatah dominated Palestinian Authority.

Each however, espoused a journalism in the service of a personal agenda, which is little different than the subservient journalism practiced under state ownership.

Under the hashtag DictaduraNuncaMás ( DictatorshipNeverAgain), social networks stressed the importance of vigilance in cases of abuses of power which, they argue, launched the rebellions

18th and 19th centuries While under Swedish rule, the village was renamed Limbaži sometime in the 17th century.

Such abuses of market power discourage innovation.

What is this? He wants to be a rival to the government now?

Having this sort of power really frightens me.

This explains why the Vatican chooses to describe the pedophiliac transgression of its clergy as sins rather than crimes.

Those policy areas that citizens consider the most significant in particular welfare and education remain under the direction of member states.

Other foreign territories were ruled as Swedish Dominions under the Swedish monarch, in some cases for two or three centuries.

These concerns were reflected in the fact that the Society of Combatant Clergy, a conservative body, was unable to endorse Ahmadinejad s candidacy.