autocracy
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For the Athenians, demokratia, literally “people power,” meant endlessly striving to find ways of harnessing the tendency of leaders toward autocracy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
He admired the spirit of liberty, for instance, yet opposed the French Revolution and supported Napoleon, believing that ensuing populist disorder would then, as it turned out, require autocracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
Back then, Florida’s student government had a reputation of operating a little like an autocracy.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
The Pope spoke to a crowd of thousands in St Peter's Square to warn against marginalisation of the poor and autocracy.
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
Although his reign may have begun idealistically, Cahokia quickly became an autocracy; in an Ozymandiac extension of his ego, the supreme leader set in motion the construction projects.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The Games were held in the middle of autocracies, the middle of pandemics and the middle of nowhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
Though in fairness, the app has stood firm against other censorship orders from autocracies like Myanmar and Russia, the latter of which temporarily banned the app in 2018.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024
When we picture the ways autocracies end and, more specifically, how dictators end, the greatest hits to mind.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024
Will Tracy, the show’s creator and co-writer, said he read 20 books about autocracies, authoritarian leaders and totalitarian states to develop the six episodes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
No military monarchs or military autocracies could drag them into wholesale war.
From The Guns of Europe by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
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