autocratic

How To Use autocratic In A Sentence

• The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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?
• But his autocratic style proved ill adapted to the turbulence of the 1960s.
• His reputation as an autocratic know-it-all goes before him. The Sun
• But his critics say he has needlessly antagonized professors with his autocratic style.
• The autocratic government call out the army to suppress the workers'strike.