6.But the fatwa had global consequences, making clear that the anti-blasphemy laws of a reactionary theocracy could be enforced by volunteer assassins anywhere on the planet.
7.The city's mayor, Ron Huldai, went so far as to tell a television interviewer in early December that the country was shifting " from a democracy to a theocracy."
8.As the protests have broadened to a general protest against Iran's strict Muslim theocracy, the reaction from Iran security forces has been more and more harsh.
9.Mr Gingeras sets out the broad context: the rise of Europe's colonising democracies-largely liberal at home but prone to heavy-handed imperialism abroad-at the expense of traditional theocracies, organised around fealty to a sovereign whose power was more than symbolic.
10.The notion of this strange culture pocket, hidden amongst unknown ranges, and ruled over by some vague kind of theocracy, interested him as a student of history, apart from the curious though perhaps related secrets of the lamasery.
11.Conversely, in large parts of England communities of Puritans had emerged, they were radical Protestants who based their beliefs on the theocracies which had grown up in cities like Geneva, under the minister Jean Calvin in the mid-sixteenth century.