autocracy

Example Sentences

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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

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

The Games were held in the middle of autocracies, the middle of pandemics and the middle of nowhere.

From The Wall Street Journal

Amid all this, countries of the Global South—especially Brazil, India and South Africa—position themselves between the West and the Eastern autocracies.

From The Wall Street Journal

While news organizations are in many ways top-down institutions—newsroom editors exercise an autocracy quite rare in other fields—in reality they are bottom-up, their product shaped by those who wield the digital pens.

From The Wall Street Journal