Great authority was placed in "theocratic government" and the "Chief Bishop", who was responsible for ruling the church.

People who believe in the separation of church and state seek answers about theocratic governments, past and present.

They praise the director for his courage in addressing the subject of suicide, which the theocratic Iranian government generally considers taboo.

They explicitly believe in replacing secular, democratic government with theocratic and Islamic government.

He will establish a theocratic government and will usher in the new Millennium.

Azerbaijan was skeptical of Iran's theocratic government and looked instead to Turkey as a strategic partner.

Religious uniformity was common in many modern theocratic and atheistic governments around the world until fairly modern times.

What you have, then, is a theocratic government - a government run by the church.

But even religious leaders acknowledge that a great portion of those people are secular and would not vote to elect a theocratic government.

The majority of the guerrillas represent a fundamentalist or radical Islamic view of theocratic government.