How to Use theocracy in a Sentence

theocracy

noun
  • In many ways, the calls for an end to the theocracy seem unstoppable.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Far too pure for the sinners who run this godless theocracy.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The poor were thought to be the regime’s last bastion of power, tied to theocracy by piety and the welfare state.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
  • Doesn’t the choice also challenge how outsiders think of the theocracy?
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The protests are the most significant challenge to the theocracy in more than a decade.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Iran had the chance to install a government that would mimic its own theocracy.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • As in, theocracy would make things so recognizably bad that people would rise up against it?
    — Ann Friedman, The Cut, 22 June 2017
  • Some might argue that memes have no role in the Iranian theocracy.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • In Iran, women rose up against the theocracy, fed up with its repressive rules.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Even the woman who literally helped write the book on this theocracy is no longer allowed to read or write.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • Khamenei presides over a vast power structure of officials who have much to lose from the fall of the theocracy.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Five decades of broken agreements have shown that side-deals and photo-ops cannot civilize a theocracy.
    — Kazem Kazerounian, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2025
  • Two-thirds of the people in Iran want a democracy without a theocracy.
    — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2018
  • Iran’s theocracy likely won’t accept that.
    — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Meanwhile, a new wave of protests in Iran is once again challenging the country’s theocracy.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026
  • From exile, the crown prince has agitated for an end to Iran's theocracy.
    — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The theocracy of the ayatollahs has been exposed in all its fragility.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
  • So to try to legislate it out of existence, or to tend toward theocracy—both extremes are wrong.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Iran has been called both a theocracy and a clerical oligarchy because of the power clerics hold.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The view in Riyadh is that Iran's theocracy faces an existential threat.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
  • No more communism, or fascism; no more theocracy, or monarchies.
    — Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Washington at one point also pushed for the overthrow of Iran’s theocracy.
    — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Removing traces of that theocracy, in the form of blasphemy laws, doesn’t mean that liberty is safe.
    — The Economist, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The Islamic Republic is a theocracy that claims to rule from a moral pedestal.
    — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • It has been used to argue for theocracy and unquestioned obedience to law even in the fact of oppression.
    — Laura Nasrallah, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
  • Iran is a Shiite theocracy overseen from the top by Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state.
    — Nasser Karimi, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2018
  • So far, Iran’s hard-line Islamic theocracy is not willing to go as far some women would like.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Like the regimes in Beijing and Moscow, the theocracy in Tehran has grown bolder.
    — Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • America is a democracy, not a theocracy run by the Catholic Church.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • This is not the first time the theocracy at the helm of the Iranian government has cracked down on women protesting for greater rights.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2022

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