The city was heavily politically favored during the long military dictatorship of Park Chung-hee, when it and the surrounding area served as his political base.

The long dictatorship, too entrenched to be ousted, is gone.

On Taiwan, the long dictatorship of the Chinese Nationalists is over.

The President has launched economic reform, with all the pitfalls of starting over after a long Communist dictatorship, and he is eager for foreign investment.

When they discovered Thule they were just recovering from the effects of a long dictatorship.

Ironically, the decisions of this democratically elected body would set the stage for a long dictatorship.

Also, in the archives, there are at least two nearly full boxes of documents describing the relationship with Brazil's long dictatorship of the Generals.

The president declared that the war had left behind great suffering, but ended one of the longest dictatorships in the world.

Re-establishing food supplies for people who have suffered under a long and cruel dictatorship and 12 years of embargo, Mr President, certainly cannot wait.

Because that party has been a decisive factor in Hungary's return to a democratic life after a long and terrible dictatorship.