| The ageing autocrat obviously intended to remain in power at any cost and by any means. |
| We in the Western nations long ago recognized autocracy in the public sector as poison, no matter how well-meaning the autocrat might be. |
| After the battle at Aheloi, Tsar Simeon proclaimed the Bulgarian church a patriarchate and himself an emperor and autocrat of the Romans. |
| It was preceded by months of attempted negotiations with a megalomaniac, power-hungry, delusional autocrat. |
| Peace required a deeply conservative political order, built on a single party, run by a paternal autocrat. |
| Like every autocrat who has ever seized power, she insisted that she had no alternative but to sack a corrupt and treacherous government. |
