(1) At the same time the Ottoman Empire, increasingly plagued by corruption and misrule , was sliding ever closer to its eventual disintegration.

(2) Those Germans who styled themselves u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510patriots,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb the new-fangled term imported from France, despised these seats of despotic misrule and abuse.

(3) The troglodytes who misrule Scotland have developed artistic pretensions; it is not a pretty sight.

(4) Forty years of misrule by local elites

(5) What we're dealing with in Iraq is not two and a half weeks of conflict, but two and a half decades of misrule and mismanagement, and there is a major reconstruction project that has to go on there, a major rebuilding of Iraq.

(6) It is clear that the referendum has damaged the credibility of a general who was widely welcomed in Pakistan when he took over in a coup in October 1999 after a decade of corruption and misrule .

(7) The empire eventually weakened due to large-scale corruption and nepotism, overtaxation, and misrule .

(8) And Nigeria is, after all, a relatively young democracy, having shaken off decades of military misrule barely five years ago.

(9) There must be some lessons we can take from the past eight years of mean-spirited misrule in Ontario, but right now we're just ecstatic to see the back of the Tory government.

(10) Take Liberia for example, wracked by a 14-year civil war, sparked by political misrule and economic collapse.

(11) Liminal phases of rites of passage, carnivals, and fu00d4u00f6u00a3u252cu00bctes are often pervaded by images of chaos and misrule .

(12) It continued to expose the regime's trail of criminal misrule , laying bare the hypocrisy of a president and party that had pauperized the country while claiming to be empowering its people.

(13) A country that is recovering from decades of misrule

(14) How can we misrule with impunity if there is no serious opposition?

(15) The move spawned rampant corruption and misrule and led to a bitter civil war that ended with the victory of the genocidal Khmer Rouge communists.

(16) There was a tradition of misrule before, during, and after games

(17) But certainly he's been playing this card as a way of deflecting criticism from his own rule or misrule as the case may be.

(18) There's a strong thematic connection: Twelfth Night marked the end of the Christian festival, and exploited the mediaeval tradition of misrule .

(19) On another occasion, she publicly denounced the Chief Minister of another State for the latter's criminal misrule .

(20) From 1945 onwards, few cared to question whether this Churchillian refusal to negotiate with Stalin, or any other dictator, actually makes things worse - that would have sounded as though excuses were being made for misrule .