autocrat

How To Use autocrat In A Sentence

• The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal.
• This is not to say that the good leader is an absolute autocrat.
• As revolution spread to Palermo, Milan and Naples it seemed as if the people of Italy could break the domination of the myriad of foreign rulers and domestic autocrats.
• Faculty members complained that he behaved autocratically in establishing the center without soliciting their advice and consent.
• Conservatives longed for the return of a healthy system of independent party politics, freed from the buccaneering methods of an autocratic prime minister and his retainers.
• Autocrats hear dissent and critique as threat - they don't understand that it's an open society's process of repair and refinement.
• While liberation from superstition and autocratic oppression is the great legacy of the Enlightenment, to perpetuate the repression of all spiritual expression in the name of reason is to continue to deny our innate being.
• Democrats can build state capacity, probably more effectively than autocrats.
• It can be autocratic and invade our privacy in ways that earlier generations could not have envisioned.
• William Jefferson, known to be less than scrupulous (the FBI found $90,000 in cash in his freezer, and the intimation is that he is connected to some shady individuals from South America), re-elected to Congress in a landslide, primarily due the rantings of the autocratic sheriff of Jefferson Parish. Think Progress » Chertoff Learned of Levee Failure 36 Hours After Mayor Nagin?