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
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
An expert in the law of autocracy, Scheppele has seen firsthand what happened to constitutional courts, the media, the academy and the democratic norms that protected them in Russia and Hungary.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026
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
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 ● Feb. 9, 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
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
The formidable autocracies of Egypt, Persia, and Syria, made playthings of the lives of millions of men; and the secret of their power lay in the supernatural light of their pseudo-divinity.
From Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland
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