autocratic

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They accuse Saakashvili of mishandling the August 2008 conflict with Russia and becoming increasingly autocratic, and have demanded an early presidential election.

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  1. Pertaining to or of the nature of autocracy; absolute; holding independent and unlimited powers of government. The Russian government is autocratic, inasmuch as over the larger part of the country it has simply succeeded to the position of the Mongolian khans, who from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century held the Russian people in subjection. J. Fiske, Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 43.

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  • Even more impressive to her was that for five hundred years Julius had allowed Christian to think he was simply being annoyingly autocratic, and had preferred Christian to be angry with him for not telling rather than cause him the pain that knowing his own mother hadn't wanted him and had actually ordered him dead would bring. —  Lynsay Sands - [Argeneau 09] - Vampire, Interrupted
  • His leadership style has been criticized as too autocratic, and many of the teams blamed him for precipitating the split between FOTA and the FIA.
  • His leadership style has been criticized as too autocratic, and many of the teams blamed him for precipitating the rift. —  HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
  • The Afghanistan tribes are what they are and what they have been for many centuries: wildly independent, autocratic, and hostile to outsiders. —  Entertainment magazine The Cheers
  • It wasn't just that Haider's political executor campaigned as "BZÖ - Jörg Haider's Slate"; it wasn't just that their slogan all too clearly linked itself to Haider's autocratic, paternalistic understanding of poltics, which the Vienna —  signandsight.com
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