| Political leaders, especially autocrats and dictators, have always used writing for propaganda purposes. |
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| Such security measures have always been associated with autocrats who are profoundly aware of the depth of the popular hatred they arouse. |
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| But, in corporations, the autocrats who run these places can't leave people on their own. |
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| We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores. |
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| The king, like most autocrats, appears to believe that he speaks in the name of the people. |
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| At times, it has been made too easy for autocrats to untruly claim that democracy movements are agents of foreign forces. |
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| Never before have the ruling autocrats been as naked in the eyes of their publics as they are now. |
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| Somewhere even the dictators and autocrats who send ambassadors to dialogue with ambassadors from free states know that to be true. |
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| We understand we are making the terrorists, dictators and autocrats nervous. |
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| Democrats can build state capacity, probably more effectively than autocrats. |
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| Instead, he seeks to change it by promoting liberty, freedom, and eventual democracy in countries ruled by autocrats. |
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| Politicians have to be answerable for failure in ways that autocrats are not. |
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| The way to do so is not to equivocate between democrats and autocrats, as Lula seems to think. |
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| The ousting of unpopular autocrats are key moments in these transition processes. |
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| Arab autocrats are far from being the only leaders who practise selective memory. |
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| Even under the Taliban there was at least a semblance of central control that limited the excesses of these regional autocrats. |
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| In the days of apartheid, the Government of South Africa was not content to reign as autocrats. |
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| One is that elections, even when they are neither free nor fair, can be dangerous for autocrats. |
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| The international media, however, has the wherewithal to stand firm and resist the autocrats. |
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| It will always contain dictators, autocrats and murderous opportunists who will seek power and its spoils without regard for the death and suffering of others. |
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| In other cases, autocrats have been forced to introduce modest political changes but have nonetheless managed to limit their scope and hold on to power. |
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| This is simply because these autocrats are using every possible means of manipulation and constraint to prevent any alternation in power. |
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| They provide a shelter for stolen assets of dictators, autocrats, corrupt officials and agents who undermine law and order. |
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| And it is evidence, observers say, that sustained political engagement, party training, and civil-society building can eventually bring down autocrats. |
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| As revolution spread to Palermo, Milan and Naples it seemed as if the people of Italy could break the domination of the myriad of foreign rulers and domestic autocrats. |
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| It's something that autocrats throw around to keep their grip on restive populations. |
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| Kim Jong Un is changing role models, steering Pyongyang away from Chinese autocrats toward the ultra-aggressive Vladimir Putin. |
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| The fact that the extremists and autocrats have had to resort now to unspeakable violence shows how much they have failed to win the war of ideas. |
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| Stuff, it seems, assuages the guilt and responsibility that should be felt by the wives of autocrats. |
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| The Iranian leader is taunting the West again by palling around with Latin America autocrats. |
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| For African autocrats, the comfortable days are over. |
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| Lukashenko's efforts to draw on fellow autocrats have also come to naught. |
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| It is only right and proper that we should defy the wills of autocrats and dictators and defend the cause of human rights and democracy, and hence also that of democratic political groupings in the countries concerned. |
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| Being nice to Gulf autocrats certainly brings some benefits for western countries: we buy their oil and they spend the money on buying our weaponry. |
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| Bloodshed sometimes works for autocrats, at least temporarily. |
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| The sophistication of vote count verification techniques developed since the 1980s has made it increasingly difficult for autocrats to manipulate the aggregation of election results without being exposed. |
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| The Middle East may be the region most commonly associated with approaching opposition too heavy-handedly, but the real lessons for aspiring autocrats are elsewhere. |
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| We allow such putschists and autocrats to sell us natural resources and to incur repayment obligations to us in behalf of the people they oppress. |
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