Hara was followed by a succession of nonparty prime ministers and coalition cabinets.

These included known and alleged Stalinists, but also other Communist Party members or even nonparty citizens accused of exhibiting sympathy or leanings towards the Soviet Union.

The Kadets and their allies dominated it, with the mainly nonparty radical leftists slightly weaker than the Octobrists and the nonparty center-rightists combined.

In spite of an upsurge of leftist terror, radical leftist parties participated in the election, and, together with the nonparty left, they gained a plurality of seats, followed by a loose coalition of Kadets with Poles and other nationalities in the political center.

This move was made in order to free spaces in the new government for nonparty candidates.

The Parliament of Swaziland ( or Libandla ) has two chambers: the House of Assembly has 65 members, 55 members elected out of candidates nominated by traditional local councils and 10 appointed members ; balloting is done on a nonparty basis ; candidates for election are nominated by the local council of each constituency and for each constituency the three candidates with the most votes in the first round of voting are narrowed to a single winner by a second round ( the system is called Tinkhundla ), and the Senate has 30 non-partisan members, 10 members elected by the Parliament and 20 appointed members.

* 1993 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.

In modern usage, the term " dictator " is generally used to describe a leader who holds and / or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power, especially the power to make laws without effective restraint by a legislative assembly.

After Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia ( 15 March 1939 ) without notifying Mussolini in advance, the Italian dictator decided to proceed with his own annexation of Albania.

* 1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.

When Lucius Cornelius Sulla was dictator he severely curtailed the tribunes of the plebeians by invalidating their power of veto and making it illegal for them to bring laws before the Concilium Plebis without the Senate's consent.

His own brother sets himself up as a petty dictator, taking what he wants without regard for the law.

It is ruled by a dictator, many other forms of government having been tried previously, but without the ability to remove such things as the DemoPol, a computer system used to manipulate populaces without their consent or knowledge.

In May and August 1916, Constantine and General Ioannis Metaxas ( future dictator ) allowed parts of eastern Macedonia to be occupied, without opposition, by the Central Powers.

** Because the dictator could enact capital punishment within Rome as well as without, his lictors did not remove the axes from their fasces within the pomerium.

In that, Toohey's early career parallels that of Joseph Stalin, who had also trained for the priesthood in his young age – though Toohey's methods are much more subtle than those of the Soviet dictator, and he builds up a formidable power structure without resorting to an outright seizure of power or establishing a secret police apparatus.

Plutarch maintains that Opimius was the first Roman to appoint himself dictator, kill 3, 000 Roman citizens without trial, including the proconsul Fulvius Flaccus who celebrated a triumph and the tribune Gaius Gracchus, a man renowned for his reputation and virtue.

However, he had acted without the authority of the dictator Lucius Papirius Cursor, who was angry and demanded that the Senate punish Fabius for disobeying orders.

Although the leader Bayard Rustin called Ben Ammi " a dictator " without " the same moral standards as democratic leaders ", the others disassociated themselves from this.

The New York Times is bought every day by Marienblau's nephew, and the dictator does not make a decision without reading it.

Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón, notable for his earlier attempt to prosecute Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, opened up an investigation concerning these landings which, according to Madrid, were made without official knowledge, thus being a breach of national sovereignty.

) led a wave of debate on the controversial Hudood Ordinance, a set of laws passed without debated by a dictator 28 of years ago equating rape with adultery.

As Chief Minister, Pant won the confidence of the Indian Civil Service, and Sir Harry Haig, the governor of the United Provinces, wrote to the Viceroy that Pant was " an interesting and rather attractive personality ... essentially a conciliator and not a dictator " However, in 1939 the Viceroy's declaration of war, without consultation, led to a clash with the Indian National Congress, and its Provincial ministers resigned.

According to Balakrishna the public sector companies in response to Sena's violent pressure, began employing Maharashtrians in large numbers, the company owners didn't object to the Sena entry in to trade unionism since " Thackeray ruled like a dictator, one phone call was enough to ensure peace on the shop floor.

However, a large fan base for a politician does not in any way make them a dictator ; this is determined by an entirely different set of standards.

In Chinese, there is a large difference in connotation between " 专政 " and " 独裁 ", but both translate to " dictator " in English.

He said the Iraqi people could breathe a sigh of relief now that the former dictator was no longer at large.

They couldn't understand that a dictator like Saddam Hussein had invested a large share of oil revenues in infrastructure projects, such as highways, modern irrigation canals and industrial plants, which one doesn't find in just any country.

The cute and cuddly appearance of Beep the Meep — a round, furry biped with large, expressive eyes and long ears — belies his true nature as a malevolent, homicidal would-be conqueror and dictator.

Some of his more memorable photos were of the Mexico City flower market and agave fields in Mexico, a Bolivian toddler on the back of her mother, one large black eye fixed on the photographer, a down-at-heels banana dictator in a gilt-braided uniform, and his color covers for Fortune were always striking.

* In 1945 the body of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was lynched, hung ( upside down ), kicked in the head by passers-by, and shot several times after his execution by a firing squad.

* General Gracia Jacques, a supporter of François Duvalier (" Papa Doc ") ( 1907 – 1971 ), Haitian dictator, whose body was exhumed and ritually beaten to ' death ' in 1986.

The forty-one members of the Council were elected by the Commons ; the body was headed by Oliver Cromwell, the de facto military dictator of the nation.

Over one hundred years later, her body was exhumed and brought back to Paraguay where the dictator General Alfredo Stroessner proclaimed her a national heroine.

Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic ; however his leadership style seems to be one that works for the overall benefit of his elephant subjects ; a form of benevolent dictator.

With the main body of the MNR firmly in Paz Estenssoro's's control, the old leader made what can be seen as a major mistake in 1971, when he supported the coming to power of dictator Hugo Banzer Suárez.

In Scientology, a thetan is the term corresponding to one's " spirit ", and a Body Thetan is another thetan ( spirit ) who is ' stuck ' in, on or near a human " meat body " because of an incident caused by an ancient galactic dictator named Xenu.

In 1961, Khrushchev finalized his battle against Stalin: the body of dictator was removed from the Lenin's Mausoleum on the Red Square and then buried outside the walls of the Kremlin.

In previous centuries, body politic was also understood to mean " the physical person of the sovereign :" emperor, king or dictator in monarchies and despotisms, and the electorate in republics.

In his introduction, Bollinger explained to the student body that the ' free speech ' afforded to Ahmadinejad was for the sake of the students and the faculty rather than for the benefit of Ahmadinejad himself, whom Bollinger referred to as " exhibiting all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator.

The fasti state a list of kings followed by the republican consuls for each year, with the magistri equitum and the tribuni militares for years in which these magistrates were eponymous instead of consuls ; that is, once the practice of naming the year after the heads of state began, there had to be a head of state whether king, dictator, consul, master or tribune, regardless of what body held the power.

This claim is however disputed, Dr Ala Bashir, Saddam Hussein former personal physician stated " The stories about Saddam Hussein having body doubles, to foster the impression that the Iraqi dictator was everywhere, are nonsense.