direct rule

For 14 months, they have lived under the king's direct rule.

He wants to end direct rule and hold new local elections this summer.

In any case, however, we cannot give up direct rule as a method of management.

Our courts have not yet been forced to give a direct ruling on this matter.

This involved a loss of direct rule by the English crown.

The Commissioners would maintain this form of direct rule for nearly a century.

Direct rule continued for 14 months until new state legislature elections could be held.

Introducing direct rule had been easy enough; ending it was a problem.

Conquest or direct rule by another city state appears to have been quite rare.

The new body will restore local government here for the first time since the British imposed direct rule in 1972.

No direct rule can be made since much depends on how well the plants are growing before application.

The Kremlin tried to impose direct rule on the region, but it did not work.

Laws were made for using direct rule on a colony, backed up by military power.

We fear it will not be long before we come under direct rule.

The province has been under direct rule from London since the last such attempt failed in 1974.

Under direct rule, the state government and assembly are automatically dissolved.

In 1702 it came under direct rule of France.

The court did not make a direct ruling to the suit between the two boxers.

Direct rule was not the only way Europeans exercised political power overseas.

It proposed an end to direct rule from Paris and a vote on independence, to be held in 1998.

The subheading should have read, "London could eventually end direct rule."

One was under direct rule of the British crown.

Community members lived under the direct rule of Christ as the community's chief elder and shepherd.

The period of the King's direct rule was one of peace and prosperity.

Direct rule, which was more likely to be oppressive, usually created a focus for resistance, and even terrorism.