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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of misrule.

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  • The two back-to-back suicides sparked a month of protests in normally serene Tunisia - beginning with the economically-depressed Sidi Bouzid region, where trade unionists, students, and jobless youth poured into the streets to voice their frustration with a corrupt and nepotistic regime that has misruled Tunisia for some two decades.

    Sohrab Ahmari: How an Arab Autocrat Falls Sohrab Ahmari 2011

  • The two back-to-back suicides sparked a month of protests in normally serene Tunisia - beginning with the economically-depressed Sidi Bouzid region, where trade unionists, students, and jobless youth poured into the streets to voice their frustration with a corrupt and nepotistic regime that has misruled Tunisia for some two decades.

    Sohrab Ahmari: How an Arab Autocrat Falls Sohrab Ahmari 2011

  • The two back-to-back suicides sparked a month of protests in normally serene Tunisia - beginning with the economically-depressed Sidi Bouzid region, where trade unionists, students, and jobless youth poured into the streets to voice their frustration with a corrupt and nepotistic regime that has misruled Tunisia for some two decades.

    Sohrab Ahmari: How an Arab Autocrat Falls Sohrab Ahmari 2011

  • All too many guidebooks dismiss the Borboni as corrupt despots who misruled and neglected their capital.

    April « 2008 « Isegoria 2008

  • Many Athenians 'support is grudging, however, combining fear of financial pain with anger at a political class that many here say has misruled Greece for years.

    Greece Outlines More Steps to Pare Deficit Costas Paris 2010

  • The United Kingdom has begun to look more like a Third World country, shabby, littered, ugly, run down, without purpose or direction, misruled by a typical Third World government, corrupt, incompetent and undemocratic.

    The last testament of Flashman’s creator: How Britain has destroyed itself « Isegoria 2008

  • His pupil, Osama, launched a seemingly quixotic mission to overthrow the western-backed dictatorships and monarchies that misruled the Muslim world, and drive US, British and French power from the region.

    Eric Margolis: Why Osama Is Winning 2010

  • Many Athenians 'support is grudging, however, combining fear of financial pain with anger at a political class that many here say has misruled Greece for years.

    Greece Outlines More Steps to Pare Deficit Costas Paris 2010

  • All too many guidebooks dismiss the Borboni as corrupt despots who misruled and neglected their capital.

    Garibaldi didn’t unite Italy « Isegoria 2008

  • The "Elite" that has misruled America for so long, controls both parties, makes a mockery of democracy in America, and behaves on the world scent in a manner so indecent that one can only recall little Adolf's regime.

    Zogby: Obama Leads In SC, Edwards Catching Up With Hillary For Second 2009

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