Critics of continued military rule trace the problem back to General Musharraf.

How come the electorate will even think of voting for a continued Republican rule after the last 8 years?

Meanwhile, the Afars were in favour of continued French rule.

I suggest that is the desire behind the 55% figure, rather than support for his continued rule.

Leavitt and others, for instance, began questioning the need for continued British rule in India.

Although a national conference to choose a new president is scheduled this month, it is widely seen as window-dressing for continued military rule.

It says the continued rule of the Communist Party is "the most important and fundamental principle for developing socialist political democracy in China."

Far from providing an inspired vision of political change, party leaders seem united above all on the necessity of continued Communist rule.

Nevertheless Lao independence, at first a facade for continued French rule, gradually became a reality.

In other words, Shannon actively supported the continued British rule in Ireland throughout the 1770s and 1780s.