Qin formed a centralized, autocratic government, built a nationwide network of roads and canals, standardized weights, measures and currency and formalized the written language.
More to the point, Gulen is the reclusive and highly autocratic leader of a global media, business, "interfaith dialogue" and education empire said to be worth many billions and that is run from a compound in the Poconos.
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It was under the autocratic Durk Jager, a 30-year veteran who decided to shake up the place with a product-innovation binge.
The company was under the autocratic Durk Jager, a 30-year veteran who decided to shake up the place with a product-innovation binge.
Non-dynastic autocratic regimes also follow a similar decision-making process, says Bueno de Mesquita, and the vote on which city will host major sports events such as the Olympics have a similar dynamic.
His supporters claim his ouster was masterminded by armed forces still loyal to Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, a former autocratic president who ruled the country for three decades before Mr. Nasheed came to power.
Middle-of-the-road, middle-class Spaniards are still put off by a whiff of autocratic intolerance in his party.
Lanni sets a different tone than autocratic Vegas moguls like Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson.
He knows that no Palestinian leader, not even one as historic and autocratic as himself, could sign such a deal and escape the wrath of his people.
Russia therefore has quite good relations with some countries that are democratic, and quite bad relations with some countries that are autocratic: it determines its policies on a case by case basis not through reference to some abstract ideological construct.
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The worst excesses of owners, who can act on a whim to often disrupt and damage the course of some of the long established institutions at the heart of communities, can be curbed by what is basically a democratic, rather than autocratic structure.
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The victory transformed Nepal from a monarchy to a republic after 239 years of autocratic rule.
Pity Bahrain, or at least its autocratic rulers, for their 2013 bounty is a billion dollars less in the latest IMF figuring.
With a divine board of directors and an autocratic CEO, the Church's corporate structure may seem very old-fashioned, and it is.
Already, Mr Sharif's critics are saying that an autocratic regime is in the making, unrestrained by a strident chief justice or an awkward-minded president.
It is at odds with FIA president Max Mosley over what the teams see as his autocratic and arbitrary governance of the sport, among a number of other issues.
He has spent more than two months in bed under the care of his autocratic wife, Rahsan, and his afflictions range from a spinal disorder via cracked ribs and a thrombosis to loss of appetite.
There, on Christmas day, the current president, Frederick Chiluba, who on his election in 1991 was hailed as a fine democrat, threw into jail his once autocratic but now elderly predecessor, Kenneth Kaunda.
Daewoo Group's autocratic chairman, Kim Woo-Choong, has been hyping a sale of up to half of Daewoo Motor to GM as a fait accompli, though it could still unravel over management control or price.
In pursuit of this simple idea he was willing, up to a point, to discombobulate long-standing American allies whose autocratic behaviour at home America had long forgiven or overlooked in the interests of realpolitik.
And he added: "The failure of my initiative does not mean the failure of Tunisia or the failure of the revolution, " in a reference to the popular unrest two years ago that ousted autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Plus, to his credit, he seems to understand that the battle with the bottle is not something that can be decreed by autocratic fiat, but rather that it is going to have to be a long, drawn-out (boring) campaign if it is ever to be effective.
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Stanley was a follower of Charles I and, like him, ruled in an ever more autocratic manner, according to the Manx Museum.
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