autocrat
Example Sentences
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The author is also refreshingly clear-eyed in criticizing the brutality of the Paul Kagame regime in Rwanda, for instance, and commendably avoids the usual endorsement of any autocrats who produce high growth.
But Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was also an autocrat, and he was slow to introduce political reforms.
From Salon
Dictators, autocrats and other malign actors strategically use humor as a type of diminutive to minimize their real intent and to distract the public and media.
From Salon
They see many CEOs as overpaid autocrats who pack boards with pliant, fee-hungry directors with no skin in the game.
From Barron's
The attack was the first major test of a new American security partnership with the government of Sharaa, a former rebel leader who led the overthrow of autocrat Bashar al-Assad last year.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
