The tsar was autocrat by divine right, sustained by the endorsement of the autonomous Orthodox church under its patriarch. |
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We in the Western nations long ago recognized autocracy in the public sector as poison, no matter how well-meaning the autocrat might be. |
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An autocrat like Genghis Khan who imposes his will on others, without any reference to principles, does not operate in the realm of justice. |
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The ageing autocrat obviously intended to remain in power at any cost and by any means. |
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Catherine had innumerable lovers and did not find it contradictory to her enlightenment that she ruled Russia as an absolute autocrat. |
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Only at home did he remove the mask of the iron autocrat and become a warm personality. |
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It was preceded by months of attempted negotiations with a megalomaniac, power-hungry, delusional autocrat. |
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After the battle at Aheloi, Tsar Simeon proclaimed the Bulgarian church a patriarchate and himself an emperor and autocrat of the Romans. |
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Peace required a deeply conservative political order, built on a single party, run by a paternal autocrat. |
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They established a framework for a strongly authoritarian government and placed no limitations on the powers of the autocrat. |
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Like every autocrat who has ever seized power, she insisted that she had no alternative but to sack a corrupt and treacherous government. |
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In pre-Soviet times, the law was an instrument in the hands of the autocrat. |
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We have another brutal Middle East autocrat holding power on behalf of a sectarian minority. |
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This modern autocrat suckles from your own breast and buries you beneath a mountain of sullied nappies. |
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Schweitzer was no soft-headed do-gooder but a strong-minded, short-tempered, workaholic autocrat, who slept only four hours a night and whom people hesitated to cross. |
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Overseeing such an extensive number of responsibilities for the women's game meant that all roads led to Powell, hence the autocrat reputation. |
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Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation. |
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This can happen when, for example, a country is ruled by a dictator or autocrat. |
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These reforms were mostly designed to reassure Sunnis and Kurds that Maliki would not become an autocrat. |
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In the economic statement he became an ideologue and an autocrat, and tried to destroy democracy, but at whose expense? |
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This is not to say that the good leader is an absolute autocrat. |
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It has been suggested so far that the more popular or media-centred depiction of the prime minister as an autocrat may be more of a caricature than an accurate portrait. |
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Whereas the former was a Machiavellian autocrat with a fascist background, the latter is a straightforward, consensus-driven and politically moderate. |
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On the other hand, if it all goes wrong, he might turn out to be just one more erratic autocrat relying on nationalist rhetoric and the spoils system to stay in power. |
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Harvey totally looked and acted the role of bureaucratic autocrat. |
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Against Slovenia, a perfectly good goal that would have won the match was disallowed by a mediocre autocrat from Mali. |
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During that period, the goal of political activity was to gain influence over the sitting autocrat or to place one's own candidate on the throne. |
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A LESSER autocrat would be slinking towards the exit by now. |
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Both men use nationalism to drum up support, and both have been positioned by their backers as successors to Egypt's widely respected 60s autocrat, Gamal Abdel Nasser. |
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Gunmen in Egypt's Sinai peninsula killed a politician who was a member of parliament during the era of autocrat Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday, security sources said. |
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In short, this woman is to DC public schools what Lord Curzon was to the British Raj a high-minded and self-serving autocrat who is woefully out of touch with the local population. |
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He now intends to rule as an autocrat for three years. |
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Although in this culture the subservient is sometimes more virtual than real, it is the continued perception of the existence of an autocrat that matters because it consolidates the political realm. |
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The overriding principle was that laws should be made with the agreement of those directly affected by them, and not by some detached autocrat acting by fiat. |
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We cannot compare the President of the largest Western democracy to a bloodthirsty criminal autocrat who has annihilated all trace of democracy in Iraq and is the only dictator to have used weapons of mass destruction. |
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France has armed Sudan, and Belgium is supplying weapons to the autocrat Joseph Kabila in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, partly so that he can massacre the opposition. |
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Education is moving from a teacher-centred system to a student-centred system, while the role of the teacher continues to evolve from that of a classroom autocrat to that of a mentor or facilitator. |
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Napoleon III was year autocrat measured contrary to his uncle. |
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In addition, it eroded the credibility of several so-called champions of democracy, providing oppressive regimes everywhere a virtual free pass even as it rid the world of one such autocrat. |
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George was also perceived as favouring Tory ministers, which led to his denunciation by the Whigs as an autocrat. |
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However, the concept of absolutism was so ingrained in Russia that the Russian Constitution of 1906 still described the Tsar as an autocrat. |
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Gilbert is a perfect autocrat, insisting that his words should be delivered, even to an inflection of the voice, as he dictates. |
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If in reality Trajan was an autocrat, his deferential behavior towards his peers qualified him to be viewed as a virtuous monarch. |
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As a man of his time, Muhammad governed as an autocrat. |
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Nothing humbles an autocrat quite like the need to grub for votes. |
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He concludes that Domitian was a ruthless but efficient autocrat. |
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The parrot particularly, which may be considered the autocrat of the feathered tribes leads all birddom in the number and variety of diseases to which it is subject. |
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