autocracy
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Emphasizing compassion and kindness, the Dalai Lama’s spiritual and moral leadership exemplifies the victory of freedom and faith over autocracy and repression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
“An autocracy needs to create an in-group versus an out-group,” Corrales explained.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026
Now the formally restless Susan Choi turns to social realism in her beguiling if baggy “Flashlight,“ mapping a family’s journey among political autocracy and personal pain, from Midwestern cornfields to the Pacific Rim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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
Our ancestors were fleeing autocracies, aristocracies and they were fleeing the unpredictability of the law that comes from an aristocracy or a dictatorship.
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
Founded in 1967, the often-unwieldy collective of democracies, autocracies and monarchies has been held together for decades by bedrock principles of non-interference in each other’s domestic affairs and consensus-based decision-making.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2023
Protopopov and Sturmer and their associates recognized as clearly as the liberals did the natural kinship and interdependence of the three great autocracies, the Romanov, Habsburg, and Hohenzollern dynasties.
From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo
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