one-man rule

基本解释

But after 30 years of strong-arm one-man rule, Mr Gayoom is embattled.
但是在30年的强力个人统治之后，加尧姆先生被孤立了。
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Ask all the citizens of Shechem, 'Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal's sons rule over you, or just one man?'
请你们问示剑的众人说:'是耶路巴力的众子七十人都管理你们好呢？还是一人管理你们好呢？'
Belarus gets little American or European investment, largely because investors feel uncertain about property rights in a country under one-man rule for 17 years.
由于投资者普遍感到要在一个由某位统治者执政长达17年的国家进行投资有些前途未卜，白俄罗斯几乎无法获得来自美国和欧洲的资本。

When these tyrannies take place, they last for different periods of time, but when the tyrant is removed, what follows after that is, there is never again in that town a one-man rule of any kind.
当僭主统治步入历史舞台,它走过了很多历史时期,但当它寿终正寝之后,在那座城邦里再也没有出现过,任何形式的独裁者了
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Again, I want to say it's the because in Egypt the whole Nile Valley-- because I think of the nature of the Nile Valley-- became totally centralized, under the rule of one man, the Pharaoh, and he commanded the whole thing.
我想强调的是,由于在埃及的整个尼罗河流域,当然,我认为尼罗河流域的政权性质,是完全集权化的,法老是唯一的统治者,并且他控制着所有事物
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Teamwork will replace Mr Westerwelle's one-man rule.
ECONOMIST: Will the new face for the Free Democrats be tough enough?
Many think this progression from one-man to collective rule is progress, and in many ways it is.
FORBES: China's Anti-Reformers Take Over