| Aid agencies subsidized the worst collectivist autocracies, underwriting the very policies responsible for Third World poverty. |
| But autocracies suffer setbacks too, and usually for one overwhelming reason. |
| Our government and the corporations whose investments it protects have propped up corrupt monarchies and single-party autocracies. |
| As an absolute monarchy there was comfort in an Arab world of other autocracies. |
| All current Arab autocracies, like Mr Hussein's, centre on tight networks of one clan, sect or class. |
| Democracy analysts note the increasingly negative role China and other powerful autocracies have played in neighboring countries. |
