Use "autocrat" in a sentence
autocrat example sentences
autocrat
1. Although he was an autocrat, he was philosophically liberal, and, accordingly, the universities produced a large number of academics who were not
2. In the context of European history, I define legitimate prince to be an autocrat from an established tradition of rulership that has been in place for a long time
3. The personality of an autocrat is of vital importance because there is so much power at his disposal
4. He was too incompetent to be an effective autocrat, let alone a wise guide to a nation at the point of the most profound crisis in its national history
5. Thus the autocrat and the philosophe were not that far apart
6. After Napoleon’s fall, Metternich continued his efforts to find an autocrat to rule France and opposed efforts of the victorious European states to weaken the defeated French
7. Positive law is the right hand of the autocrat, and the Jewish Left has always been partial to autocrats
8. Credit him for cleaning up the public toilets but why not condemn him for having forced his spouse to do the same; why laud him for his quixotic abstinence unmindful of his wife’s conjugal plight; was he not an inveterate autocrat in the democratic garb; what about his falling afoul of Prakasam, and how he played favorites with Nehru
9. Though for centuries, the gods, who paid a deaf ear to the Hindu prayers to get them rid of the Mohammedan rule, granted them their ‘man for the moment’ in Sardar Patel but they had to contend with Gandhi the autocrat, who by then was deified by them as the Mahatma of the time
10. itual and temporal authority he became not only an autocrat, but
11. Adorno was also an autocrat to excess, insisting upon lavish banquets, ceremonies, and balls at every turn
12. an autocrat), explaining how it doesn't fit the overall plans for the
13. This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for `Marmar', as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat
14. Though why an officer of the British merchant service should answer the questions of any king, emperor, autocrat, or senator of any foreign power (as to an event in which a British ship alone was concerned, and which did not even take place in the territorial waters of that power) passes my understanding
15. Within a week, Ward Mortimer was duly installed in his new set of rooms, and had become the autocrat of the Belmore Street Museum
16. Here, excitement never entered in, voices were never raised, everyone deferred gently to the opinions of others, and, in the end, the black grizzled autocrat in the kitchen had his way
17. Autocrat of the drawing-room seek?
18. He is a second autocrat,” he concluded with a victorious smile
19. But Galloway’s chief passion was power—to handle men as a junk merchant handles rags, to plan and lead campaigns of conquest with his golden legions, and to distribute the spoils like an autocrat who is careless how they are divided, since all belongs to him, whenever he wishes to claim it
20. The great Autocrat of all the Russias receives the homage of our high consideration
