1. In the past two years, one-party rule has vanished from Eastern Europe.

2. We don't want one-party rule - we want rule by the people.

3. The President aims to create a de jure one-party state.

4. The one-party state must give way.

5. President Banda's one-party government has a ruthless record, especially when dealing with political opponents.

6. The tendency to ethnic absolutism and the one-party residue have reinforced one another in the Yugoslav successor states.

7. The subsequent establishment of a one-party state would have achieved the same result.

8. He only abandoned his commitment to one-party rule, under considerable duress, about five years ago.

9. Like the dominant party in a one-party state, Microsoft Corp. has engendered a certain number of discontents.

10. Hard to do with a one-party democracy.

11. This goes in the same "mysteries of one-party rule" category as, Why can't China put together a decent pavilion for the Venice Biennale?

12. In fact, China managed to combine censorship and one-party rule with continuing economic success over the following decade.

13. With its unreformed one-party system, its rote-learning in schools and state control of big businesses, "new China" is hardly a haven for innovative thinking.

14. Ever since Hamas began its one-party rule of Gaza, in the summer of 2007, Israel and the West have tried to turn Gazans against Hamas through an economic embargo and diplomatic isolation.

15. The "one-party allocution" system was set up by Sun Yat-sen but was also restricted, which left a pretext for the attack from the community.

16. One election cannot erase 65 years of a corrupt one-party political process.

17. International events have shown that there is an inherent contradiction between a one-party state and mass democracy.

18. Nkrumah announced another referendum to enable him to dismiss the judges and also to establish a one-party state.

19. For more than 70 years, the former Soviet Union was a one-party state.

20. Many believe that the consultation process was manipulated to entrench one-man, one-party rule.

21. Since 1980, 57 countries have replaced military dictatorships or other forms of one-party rule with democratic elections.http:///one-party.html

22. It recently opposed government moves towards the legal formation of a one-party state.

23. The Republic, which retains membership of the Commonwealth, is a one-party state with an executive President.

24. After the 1987 election there was speculation that Britain had moved into an era of one-party politics or a predominantly one-party system.

25. The army was deployed against demonstrators calling for an end to one-party rule and the release of detainees.

26. An inefficient socialist economy and thirty years of increasingly corrupt one-party rule have made their contributions.

27. During his stints as a Red Guard and a soldier, however, Wei became disillusioned with the one-party socialist ideology.

28. Hereditary aristocracies, Douthat writes, suffer from stupidity and pigheadedness, while one-party states do so from ideological mania.

29. These new rules delivered the Egyptian polity into the hands of a one-party system in which all power rested with Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's president until his death in 1970.

30. Many educated youngsters were outraged at the treatment of Islamists in the 1960s when Egypt veered towards a Soviet-style one-party state under socialist Gamal Abdel Nasser.

31. In China foreign travel is part of a slightly different compact between the state and the new middle classes: unprecedented freedom and fun in exchange for the maintenance of one-party rule at home.

32. The small, Southeast Asian nation is a one-party communist state and the candidates are determined by the party.

33. If you can't tell the difference between the most liberal democratic society on the planet and a totaIitari?an one-party regime... please stay away from the voting booth for the next few cycles.

34. Beijing has put fighting inflation at the top of its agenda this year, amid concerns that runaway price rises could spark social instability in the one-party state, as has occurred in the past.

35. Is our political performance an argument for the superiority of our ballyhooed democracy over their one-party state?

36. Or is he promoting limited internal reforms designed to strengthen one-party rule?