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autocratic
1. ‘That man of yours is far too autocratic, Jo!’
2. “But all this is based on philanthropic and autocratic, rather than
3. “The party line is freedom for all citizens which is part of their Constitution, but the reality is that more recently it has become a closed, autocratic society, especially for Anglos
4. The forming of the Eastern Alliance was intended to have a moderating influence on the more extreme practices of ancient law, but the relaxing of state (autocratic, some would say) control to allow temporary zones of tolerance only resulted in an increased crime rate
5. Socialism (without the brutal trappings) shares a number of characteristics common to Autocratic Rule including an inherent contempt for mainstream conventions
6. Fidel Castro‘s supporters on the American Left have historically argued that 1) most embargoes are ineffective in subverting autocratic governments (note these are the same people who summarily called for embargoes against Iraq as a viable alternative to war), and 2) that such restrictions promote unnecessary hardship to its citizens and should therefore be lifted if not for humanitarian reasons, alone
7. Carter‘s endlessly quixotic ―peacekeeping‖ overtures to autocratic regimes throughout the Third World in a transparent attempt at redeeming his failed presidency; this is not to imply, however, that our ex-president does not (otherwise) share a certain sympathy with such leaders as evidenced by his fawning indifference to human and civil rights abuses routinely evident in many of those countries
8. Jews support civil rights (which can and do coexist with Communist and autocratic states)
9. courts of Joseph II (Austria) and Frederick the Great (Prussia) because the enlightenment belief in freedom of expression and opposition to organized religion would seem inimical to an autocratic state
10. Two points are key here: firstly, Weil made his money in the free-market system, and, secondly, he tried to be of help to the autocratic German state
11. Autocratic society with its rigid caste laws lay east of the marches
12. Webster defines fascism as “a political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts nation and race and stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
13. Of the many political systems that have been tried through history, the most basic system has been the autocratic decision making of the dominant male
14. But is that necessarily a true assumption? There are two main differences between autocratic and republican rule
15. First, there’s little disagreement in an autocratic government since authority rests with one person
16. It was that kind of disunity that has been cited as a contributing reason for increasingly autocratic rule under men like Julius Caesar in Rome and Napoleon in France
17. The present employment field has come a long way from the old days of autocratic hire and fire
18. Perhaps he saw shades of an autocratic Indira in Modi’s behaviour and was looking to warn the party of the negative consequences
19. Also haunting Modi was his own past as an autocratic leader who ran a government in a highly secretive manner
20. They were not tame, ignorant sheep, led hither and thither at the beck of an autocratic shepherd
21. Alf realised that he struggled between an autocratic and democratic leadership style and the result was chaos
22. At that time many of them were united behind their mighty, autocratic leader who was an indomitable criminal
23. Astonished by these autocratic words, which were tempered by the gentle, almost caressing way he’d wiped the dark haired woman’s tears away, as he issued these orders, Janice stared at her brother in surprise
24. autocratic behavior which was so fashionable to have
25. autocratic and closed door mannerisms of the editor and was equally at war with the „me-only?
26. The German people quite understandably went back to a social order they were more comfortable with: autocratic despotic rule of authority from the top on down
27. “It"s incredible that this man, who was so much in love with Lisa and used to ask her opinion on practically everything, should become so autocratic
28. The very insanity of this medieval Asian despot running amuck in a modern Europe with an army of more than 2 million men on a personal crusade to save Slavic freedom; when he himself was a total autocratic authoritarian and oppressed all attempts for ethnic national autonomy within his own huge overblown empire which he had no understanding of and no control over
29. The other autocratic medieval asshole who is to blame for WW2 was Franz Joseph himself for using the death of an arch duke as an excuse to attack Serbia when everyone in the world knew the Serbian Govt
30. without any thought as to the consequences except that of ‘keeping up his personal appearance of autocratic Tsar of Russia’… or in other words: saving his own face
31. The formation of Germany using Prussia as its social model, Germany as a modern nation was new: created instantly into an artificial nation of united duchies and kingdoms, using the autocratic duchies, kingdoms and baronies of the feudal system to forge it into a feudal autocratic imperial war-nation bent on military rule and conquest
32. She saw the San Tome mountain hanging over the Campo, over the whole land, feared, hated, wealthy; more soulless than any tyrant, more pitiless and autocratic than the worst Government; ready to crush innumerable lives in the expansion of its greatness
33. In 1911 the Mexicans staged a revolution and overthrew President Porfirio Diaz, who’d been in power since 1876 and was becoming increasingly autocratic in his old age
34. At first Mugabe worked together with his opponents to get the country going on a democratic basis, but he became increasingly autocratic
35. Nor could there have been a war had there been no English intrigues and no Duke of Oldenburg, and had Alexander not felt insulted, and had there not been an autocratic government in Russia, or a Revolution in France and a subsequent dictatorship and Empire, or all the things that produced the French Revolution, and so on
36. Those who predicted the oil-and-water lack of chemistry between the autocratic Austrian-born director Otto Preminger and the sensitive, shy, insecure Marilyn would be right—to a point
37. The common deception, which is disseminated among all men, consists in this, that in all the catechisms, or the books which have taken their place and which are now the subject of obligatory instruction for the children, it says that violence, that is, tortures, imprisonments, and executions, as also murders in civil or external wars for the purpose of maintaining and defending the existing order of the state (whatever it be, autocratic, monarchical, a convention, a consulship, an empire of either Napoleon or of Boulanger, a constitutional monarchy, a commune, or a republic), is quite legitimate, and does not contradict either morality or Christianity
38. Furthermore, autocratic governments directly forbid the printing and circulation of books and the delivery of speeches that might enlighten men; and those teachers who have the power to rouse the people from its torpor are either banished or imprisoned
39. We are but the tools of that autocratic abstraction the state, which enslaves each individual in the name of the will of all, who would all, taken individually, desire exactly the opposite of what they will be made to do
