| That's why in dictatorships or autocratic regimes those in power move quickly to suppress a free press. |
| She is a cold, remote, autocratic figurehead with monarchical delusions and the instincts of a contract killer. |
| It was deployed by autocratic rulers as an instrument of deep and vast social control. |
| They extracted resources and, with the help of small groups of locals, became autocratic occupiers of the land. |
| The attempts to subvert the constitution and establish an autocratic form of rule have been on the agenda for quite some time. |
| An autocratic regime had survived, but the confidence and the security it had once possessed had cracked. |
