How To Use Autocracy In A Sentence
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The policies and attitudes of the autocracy virtually ruled out the emergence of a moderate, reformist labour movement.
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The potential victims of this autocracy were not only liberal democratic values, but also effective government.
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In a liberal democracy or a nonsocialist autocracy like 1950s Taiwan or S Korea, this does not happen.
Things One Should Not Forget « Whatever
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Benevolent autocracy is an uncertain foundation for legitimate and sustainable national governance.
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The war also brings to us this disclosure, that the German autocracy is incapable of interpreting the British genius and understanding the true spirit of democracy.
Some War Revelations
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It is autocracy reverting to its normal state of palace crime, blood - stained magnificence, and moral squalor.
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And as a form of social protest against autocracy and political tyranny, there is no medium that can surpass cartoons.
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In some respects the title of the book is misleading, because it seems to suggest that autocracy has ended and democracy has been enabled.
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Those fine distinctions - democracy, autocracy, monarchy, whatever - are not good for business.
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It is autocracy state of palace crime, blood - stained magnificence, and moral squalor.
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Tendencies towards autocracy seem embedded in the country's political culture.
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In ten stormy years France had passed from autocracy to a constitutional monarchy to a constitutional republic and now to military despotism.
THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
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Such political scientists have since been recanting and admitting that One Party states simply bred autocracy and misrule by refusing to tolerate criticism and dissent.
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Egypt's ElBaradei withdrew from the presidential race to protest what he called the interim rulers' autocracy.
What's News: World-Wide
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Nevertheless, the fortress of autocracy had been breached and liberal pressure for further reform could be expected to gather momentum.
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Empire, in its universal impoverishment and its lack of any critical vigour, to the well-meaning but devitalizing autocracy of the Emperor
The Shape of Things to Come
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Without proper interrogation and criticism, government leans away from democracy towards autocracy.
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However, many remained sceptical, remembering the Tsars pledge in 1895 in a speech to Zemstvo representative to maintain autocracy.
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It might be called "autocracy" in the world of nation-building, and in business it might be called "large market share," but however it's defined, organizations in The Big Rut typically have supra-normal control of their competitive environment.
Les McKeown: Your Leadership on the Line: Four Business Lessons from National Turmoil
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In fact, the high salaries were partially intended to secure the producers 'autocracy, that is, to sooth the itch for artistic autonomy with the balm of wealth.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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These-spells of autocracy were once frequently longer and of indefinite duration, sometimes, indeed, extending over decades.
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She talked both about the patriarchal autocracy that prevails in many households, and about the ways it affects women.
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Catpewk Diary Entry
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What democracy shall mean to our sons and daughters and to their successors will be determined first in the great battle now raging, in which Prussian autocracy is to be defeated and finally driven from power, and second in the success or failure of a federation of the democracies of the world following that battle.
Woodrow Wilson and the Doctrine of Sovereignty
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I hope that the council will now return to democracy rather than autocracy.
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Economic liberalization and behind the scenes military autocracy combined with a localistic nationalism became an influential new model.
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Apparently only to substitute the autocracy of a new proletarian aristocracy for the autocracy of the old regime, and the czardom of Lenine and Trotzky for that of the Romanoffs.
The Red Conspiracy
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Eventually, autocracy should go the way of slavery and colonialism as simply unacceptable.
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An autocracy or a tyranny is a far simpler form of social and political organization than a democracy.
Is Democracy Outworn
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The banking powers are more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.
Pragmatic Witness
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The net effects of the combination of a growing sense of long-term insecurity and the demonstration effects of a fallen fellow autocracy may be those akin to a run on the bank, with agents rushing to cash in their political investments in the regime, quickening the collapse of the regime's authority.
Beijing and the Arab Revolt
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However, many remained sceptical, remembering the Tsars pledge in 1895 in a speech to Zemstvo representative to maintain autocracy.
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Britain's industrial revolution was not without is severe dislocations, the first French Revolution was not an orderly progression from autocracy to democracy and the Great Leap Forward didn't go there.
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In ten stormy years France had passed from autocracy to a constitutional monarchy to a constitutional republic and now to military despotism.
THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
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Leaders of such societies were accountable to their people, and vice versa, with systems of penalties and rewards limiting autocracy.
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With all her autocracy, and her grievous mistakes, she was a humble-minded, large-hearted, unselfish woman, of the stuff of which martyrs are made.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lets not go totalitarian, but a moderate autocracy is ok, so that people have some skin in the game.
Matthew Yglesias » Universal Catastrophic Insurance?
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But that leadership is deformed by autocracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Generations of people around the world have endured autocracy and dictatorship, totalitarianism, fascism, monarchy, oligarchy and even anarchy without knowing freedom.
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It makes evident the fine line between democracy and autocracy.
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The founders of the dynasties are all brave and successful warriors, who are superior to the cant of a hypercivilized state of society, which covers declining vigor and marks the first phase of effeteness, and who see that as long as there are human passions they may be molded by genius to make the many serve the few and to build up an autocracy.
China
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We're trying to overthrow the very concept of tyranny and autocracy.
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Introducing the children of autocracy to the best traditions of critical, reflexive British education and inculcating anointed leaders with the rigours of public accountability and transparency is a wonderful and deeply subversive thing to do irrespective of the fee accepted.
Letters: LSE's lesson in accountability
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We want democracy rather than autocracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The revolution caused the overthrow of the autocracy.
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Monarchy and autocracy did not sink for ever in Europe.
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The absence of democracy is variously termed autocracy, dictatorship and totalitarianism.
Twentieth Century History - Basic Facts
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They launched a revolution 230 years ago precisely to avoid that kind of autocracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The defining battle of our era is to reestablish citizen rule over our government, our economy, our environment, and our society - and this requires the defeat of today's corporate autocracy.
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Nevertheless, the fortress of autocracy had been breached and liberal pressure for further reform could be expected to gather momentum.
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In recent years Ian Khama, Botswana's president – a former military chief of general staff who was born in Chertsey, Surrey, and educated at Sandhurst – has faced growing accusations of autocracy and intolerance of dissent.
Kalahari Bushmen's fight for right to water adds to growing anger at Botswana rulers
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That an organ of NEOconservative opinion would tout Bush’s moves toward torture and autocracy is just a dog-bites-man story. xmzwvcripq Says:
Matthew Yglesias » A Coda
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And only sometimes does the fall of autocracy produce democracy; as often as not, it produces a new form of dictatorship.
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The plutocratic autocracy that is the White House has been imperiously dismissive of America's Constitutional systems of checks and balances, attempting to govern by executive fiat.
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If the world's two largest powers share a common commitment to autocratic government then autocracy is not dead as an ideology.
Times, Sunday Times
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The transition from royal autocracy to democracy had not been a tranquil process.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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Now the vogue is for ceding powers to the autocracy of Brussels, which is immune from the vulgarities of electoral leverage.
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Previously an autocracy, it moved closer to becoming a true constitutional monarchy when the King announced ambitious political changes.
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Catpewk Diary Entry
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Many poor countries are abandoning autocracy.
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And that would imply either anarchy or autocracy.
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For the tsar, Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners.
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The theory of autocracy is that power originated at the top; a mythical being known as "Gott" delegated to some favorite, who may be a wise man or a fool-it is about fifty-fifty in history-delegated to this favorite autocratic power, and this gentlemen spreads his power out upon a chosen few, and he and his associates rest squarely upon the masses of men, exploiting the mass of men for and in the interest of the few.
Democracy or Bolshevism
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What they all had in common was that they weren't particularly democratic, being variations either on autocracy or on bureaucratic totalitarianism.
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The proper name for its workers is ‘associates,’ a term that connotes higher status and collegiality and that actually means lower pay and workplace autocracy.
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He recognised in German autocracy and in German militarism and in German ambition a menace to the liberties of Europe.
The Major
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The system of one-party autocracy is so entrenched that the officials can be as corrupt as they want and in turn it creates a top down pyramid of corruption in China.
Global Voices in English » China: Prostitutes more trustworthy than government officials
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Prophet Muhammad prophesized that a period of khilafat would follow his demise, then monarchy, autocracy would follow, and, after a hiatus, khilafat would be re-established upon the precepts of prophethood.
Harris Zafar: Demystifying 'Caliphate'
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Hence Russian autocracy is forced into repeated wars for the possession of Constantinople which, in the present condition of the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Yet, the great crusader was seemingly oblivious to the fact that he was speaking from a country, an emirate, which is ruled by a royal family which has no use or desire for democratic reforms which would allow its subjects to directly challenge the autocracy's ultimate authority to enact those reforms.
Bush's Perversion of Democracy in the Middle East
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We in the Western nations long ago recognized autocracy in the public sector as poison, no matter how well-meaning the autocrat might be.
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Millions of kids, through the book, feel the infuriating injustices of autocracy.
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They asked for the re-establishment of the douma as the beginning of a constitutional government, but the czar was not prepared to grant this, and he was right because under existing circumstances the peasants would have to be disfranchized, -- and there is small choice between an autocracy and an oligarchy.
The Story of Russia
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It is generally customary to consider the doctrine largely in connection with those states which have been proponents of power, autocracy, and absolutism.
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It has also brought about a greater understanding of different cultures and it allowed democracy to triumph over autocracy.
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We are at risk of becoming an autocracy in three key respects.
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And to advocate independence and freedom, oppose autocracy and manacle, its liberalism of transcend partisanship aroused widespread social concern.
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Second, was liberal democracy or autocracy the future for the governance of mankind's common affairs?
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Nevertheless, the fortress of autocracy had been breached and liberal pressure for further reform could be expected to gather momentum.
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That is why democracy is superior to autocracy, and art and literature are valued more than mere sense enjoyment.
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The commission really does lean towards czardom, and I must say, I think several hundred years of stupidity and autocracy, followed by the victory of Bolshevism is not a good model for the management of American intelligence.
CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2004
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There is no sanction for autocracy.
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Generations of people around the world have endured autocracy and dictatorship, totalitarianism, fascism, monarchy, oligarchy and even anarchy without knowing freedom.
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I do not recall that I have any of them sent to me by friends for my information, but these double-paged advertisements appear week after week in which the employers 'associations are advertising the arguments that they are standing with sword in one hand and shield in the other to protect their workmen from the slavery and the autocracy of the unions.
The Open Shop; What Is It? Why Should It Prevail?
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These-spells of autocracy were once frequently longer and of indefinite duration, sometimes, indeed, extending over decades.
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As does a civilian-military alliance--more in the style of Vladimir Putin than of the Iranian revolution--in which the army of Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak will once again take control and offer to the Arab world the example of a revolution frozen into a constitutionalized autocracy.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero
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The policies and attitudes of the autocracy virtually ruled out the emergence of a moderate, reformist labour movement.
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I remember one slogan chalked on a blackboard in the main hall: ‘The autocracy of the articulate!’
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These are simply obstacles in his drive for an absolute autocracy and totalitarian power.
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However, democracy can default into anarchy, autocracy, liberalism, plutocracy, republic, just about anything, if the majority desires a leader who is representative of that.
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But today those who revere the sovereignty of the state above all else often do so to preserve autocracy, and those who champion the sovereignty of the people are the new progressives.
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After the establishment of the feudal autocracy the Qin the Han Dynasty thethe dependants were numbered.
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Nevertheless, the fortress of autocracy had been breached and liberal pressure for further reform could be expected to gather momentum.
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It is an advance on dictatorship or autocracy and has had to be fought for and won.
