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Rahbar (Supreme Leader) and the various governmental, military, and parastatal organs under his command, multiple sources of power work against the kind of sultanism typical of the Shah's regime.
MRZine.org 2009
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Rahbar (Supreme Leader) and the various governmental, military, and parastatal organs under his command, multiple sources of power work against the kind of sultanism typical of the Shah's regime.
MRZine.org 2009
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Rahbar (Supreme Leader) and the various governmental, military, and parastatal organs under his command, multiple sources of power work against the kind of sultanism typical of the Shah's regime.
MRZine.org 2009
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They have to help the people of this beleaguered continent end the ugly specter of never-ending sultanism, one-man rule. posted by Minister Faust at 6:04 PM
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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They have to help the people of this beleaguered continent end the ugly specter of never-ending sultanism, one-man rule. posted by Minister Faust at 6:04 PM
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That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship.
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That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship.
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The bitter and corrosive sense of personal humiliation that inspired so many participants in the Arab Spring was not accidental - it is central to how sultanism works.
NYT > Home Page By CHRYSTIA FREELAND | REUTERS 2011
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