But in other areas there will be total chaos because none of these autocratic rulers have any line of succession. |
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Even the most autocratic regime must, at the very least, concern itself with popular disorder. |
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It has often been termed a socialistic empire, for it was an aristocratic and autocratic socialism, not a democratic one. |
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A global democracy where most of the world is excluded by their own autocratic rulers is scarcely worth having. |
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Democratic movements had started out with the noble intentions of ending the tyranny of autocratic rulers. |
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It is hard to underemphasize the tension between autocratic church structures and the everyday expectations of most parishioners. |
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It will not be possible for anything like these figures to go through unless the Government takes autocratic powers, and uses them to the full. |
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Only three or four attained ministerial posts with some influence on national policies in an increasingly autocratic monarchial regime. |
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This time democratic rather than autocratic states are determining the shape of the new world. |
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No surprise that long-serving board members have recently opted out, rather than to bow to this autocratic style. |
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These autocratic managers quickly punish any underling who would begin to demand an ethical basis for work and production. |
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After years of operating an autocratic regime, he faces the prospect of being shorn of his dominant position should the banks succeed. |
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The printer who sticks to a standard is usually supposed to be arbitrary, autocratic, wilful, conceited, and generally toplofty. |
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And then they in turn became sclerotic, conservative, autocratic, and a drag on their societies, which is what they are now. |
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It is a creative company with a particular style set by a charismatic and autocratic leader. |
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The Ambulance Service has been condemned in an official report for having autocratic management and out of date equipment. |
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They extracted resources and, with the help of small groups of locals, became autocratic occupiers of the land. |
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Such an autocratic style of leading a family leads to repression and suppression giving rise to feelings of discontentment and unhappiness. |
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But his critics say he has needlessly antagonized professors with his autocratic style. |
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The president's resort to autocratic methods is above all directed against the working class. |
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His autocratic style made him extremely unpopular, and most of his achievements turned out to be temporary. |
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True, they were perfectly willing to overlook his autocratic management when the share price was rising. |
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An autocratic leadership style and a seeming unwillingness to take advice are not helpful either. |
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He went to Roumania where his autocratic uncle drilled him in politics and duty. |
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It's a chance for cultural liberation, to escape the dismal oppression of autocratic bullies. |
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Pre-conceived notions and autocratic style quite often increases the distance between children and parents. |
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He will be autocratic and dictatorial, and things will only happen his way or not at all. |
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He was increasingly criticized for his autocratic and obstinate style of leadership. |
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She is a cold, remote, autocratic figurehead with monarchical delusions and the instincts of a contract killer. |
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Her autocratic ruler is locked in a power struggle with Parliament, a conflict that is building inexorably towards civil war. |
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Elections in 1983 saw the return of comparative stability with Moi still President, but of an increasingly corrupt and autocratic regime. |
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Some British radicals argued, too, that overseas conquest bred autocratic habits, which then threatened liberty at home. |
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Ironically, in view of the grass-roots democratic populism of its rhetoric, the party itself was highly autocratic and centralized. |
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Before the elections, no objections had been aired about the party's constitution or its autocratic structure. |
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An autocratic regime had survived, but the confidence and the security it had once possessed had cracked. |
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It was deployed by autocratic rulers as an instrument of deep and vast social control. |
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That's why in dictatorships or autocratic regimes those in power move quickly to suppress a free press. |
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Other political figures insisted that no changes be made to the autocratic 1945 constitution that gives the president wide powers. |
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The attempts to subvert the constitution and establish an autocratic form of rule have been on the agenda for quite some time. |
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Someone should slap me but I think it's minor retribution for her unnecessarily autocratic, bossy tendencies that once again reared up yesterday. |
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His autocratic and sometimes divisive style also made him few friends at the top end of town, and even his supporters say his government was losing touch. |
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He defied the hopes of the Francoists for an extension of autocratic rule. |
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Close attachment to autocratic regimes by the West pays short-term dividends but will antagonize generations of Muslims. |
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The modern air forces built by autocratic Arab monarchies are designed primarily for self-defense, not attack. |
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How does one punish the autocratic, omnipotent president of a quasi-superpower? |
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Many of those who speak at the UN are representative of no one save the kleptocratic or autocratic cliques who hold power by force in their respective states. |
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Any resolution to the war requires the repudiation of the Sri Lankan constitution, which entrenches communalism and the autocratic executive presidency. |
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Returned to St Petersburg, they transformed the lodges into secret societies and plotted to bring constitutional rule to an autocratic, caste-ridden, and militaristic state. |
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As President he had power and patronage enough to secure by intimidation and bribery the promulgation of a constitution which gave him autocratic power. |
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The upsurge of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people forced the government out, destroyed a centuries-old autocratic monarchy and ended the war. |
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Elsewhere in the world, when autocratic or undemocratic regimes have passed away, audiences for foreign radio always go into steep decline as the local media improve. |
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He was also aloof, autocratic and lacking in managerial skills. |
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His autocratic style contributed to deepening financial problems. |
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Sources tell me that this autocratic style led to managerial paralysis in the party and that the current leadership are doing their best to sort it all out. |
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But his autocratic style has landed him in trouble with shareholders. |
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Aid to autocratic regimes often fuels corruption and impedes reform. |
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The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal. |
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Its economy was adversely affected by the Great Depression and from 1934 until 1939 it experienced a highly autocratic, neo-fascist regime led by Konstantin Paets. |
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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. |
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As he grew older, this cussedness became more pronounced, until his hatred of benighted autocratic states led him in the eyes of many to betray his left-wing views altogether. |
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By the 16th century, the Russian ruler had emerged as a powerful, autocratic figure, a Tsar. |
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He exercised autocratic control over Russia's hereditary nobility and developed a bureaucracy to administer the new territories. |
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Hawke and Sellers are generally held to have been autocratic and decisive, but in fact both relied heavily on sound professional advice. |
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Winslow started on his dulciloquy. With an autocratic, barely perceptible sweep of the hand, the general cut him short. |
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Succession planning in today's environment is no longer a top-down, autocratic process of kingmaking. |
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In practice, the Ruritanian regime is autocratic, controlling business, government, finance, and military posts. |
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The protesters objected to the presence of autocratic leaders such as Indonesian president Suharto. |
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However, the rule of the Emperors became increasingly autocratic, and the Senate was reduced to an advisory body appointed by the Emperor. |
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Despite his lack of actual authority, his autocratic demeanour annoyed many of his colleagues. |
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Ivan's notorious outbursts and autocratic whims helped characterise the position of Tsar as one accountable to no earthly authority, only to God. |
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Smallwood's style was autocratic and highly personalized, as he totally controlled his party. |
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Initially, Taylorism was hailed as a progressive force that would free workers from the whim of autocratic bosses and benefit all. |
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At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the Russian Orthodox Church was deeply integrated into the autocratic state, enjoying official status. |
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In reality, however, he retained his autocratic power over the Republic as a military dictator. |
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Can constitutions with nondemocratic elements, and even monarchical elements, be effective at restraining majoritarian and autocratic abuses? |
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Russia, for example, remained largely rural and agricultural, and its autocratic rulers kept the peasants in serfdom. |
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A constitution may change from being real to a facade and back again as democratic and autocratic governments succeed each other. |
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Following a coup instigated by the United Kingdom and the United States in 1953, Iran gradually became closely aligned with the West, and grew increasingly autocratic. |
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The autocratic Josef von Sternberg had met Marlene Dietrich, then 28, in Germany the previous year when he was looking for a star for his new movie. |
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In its many centuries of existence, the Roman state evolved from a monarchy to a classical republic and then to an increasingly autocratic empire. |
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In recent years, the prime minister has become increasingly autocratic. |
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You have ignited a spark of hope in me regarding the possibility of women priests and of breaking the current stranglehold by our autocratic, misogynous hierarchy. |
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It should be pointed out that Sistani, a soul-mate of the autocratic Ayatollahs who rule Iran, has no interest in freedom as it is understood in the United States. |
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His enemies feared that he had ambitions to become an autocratic ruler. |
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Many European monarchs, such as those of Russia, claimed supreme autocratic power by divine right, and that their subjects had no rights to limit their power. |
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