a reign of terror

reign | American Dictionary

reign
verb[ I ]
us/reɪn/
to rule a country, or to have power or control

reign

noun[ C ]us/reɪn/
the reign of Louis XIV

Examples of reign

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In such a system where the influence of personal relationships reigns supreme, party platforms and ideology carry little significance.
The effect of this disease on the reigning families was of utmost importance.
The reigning liberal-enlightenment understanding of the distinction between secular and sacred is that rational-secular understandings are one and sacred understandings are many.
The torrid climate had reduced to dust the calcinated soil, everywhere thirst and hunger reigned over the arid sands.
The administration of these most important endowments was vested in the person or the reigning shah, who was the mutavalli (administrator).
In the case of gazetteers, some reigns saw only one edition, so the date of publication can be given with some assurance.
When there is no moon, 'weakness' (bobiele) reigns over the whole world.
As for many policies in the first republic, presidential influence reigned supreme.
In this target article, the authors take issue with the reigning "individualistic" approach in theories of children's development of social understanding.
The city seating the may reigned as a religious and political center.
The reigning tonal gesture thus creates an inextricable, vicious cycle, a perfect foil for the hollow, elusive release which taunts the junkie.
More particularly, the damage has been the greatest in destroying the basis for trust in social relations, so cynicism now reigns.
In an age when the experimental approach reigns supreme, the importance of collecting children's spontaneous language data can be overlooked.
In the world of social goods, therefore, justice reigns when distributive spheres are autonomously conceived.
The tutor's aim is to direct his pupil toward the self-sufficiency that reigned among the first humans.
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