Some describe him as autocratic with a tendency to vindictiveness, but Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is not one of them.
Qin formed a centralized, autocratic government, built a nationwide network of roads and canals, standardized weights, measures and currency and formalized the written language.
Virtually every U.S. friend in the Middle East besides Israel is a non-democratic state, either an autocratic republic or a kingdom.
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The position of chairman, however, did not imbue Boyah with the autocratic powers of a traditional gang leader.
Yet, when the Russian electorate helped its compellingly autocratic president to a cleverly arranged constitution-skirting third term, we are shocked, shocked.
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The autocratic regime is a useful American ally in the region and has been repeatedly praised in Washington for its anti-terrorist efforts.
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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An autocratic decade and a half on, none of the Stans has managed to acquire either the democratic freedoms and relatively good governance of the European parts of the old empire, or the get-ahead economic dynamism of Asia: they have, in a literal sense, the worst of both worlds.
The most visible narrative is the one recorded on cell phone videos and broadcast daily showing a vicious, autocratic state using superior weaponry to gun down a determined and popular opposition.
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Despite promising to form a government "for all Egyptians", he has been accused by the opposition of being autocratic and driving through a new constitution that does not adequately protect freedom of expression or religion.
During a year of autocratic rule, he has not been forced to amend any important policy as a result of pressure at home or abroad.
Once the assembly is created, Iraq should have a check on a government whose autocratic and nationalist tendencies (against both Iran and Israel) are rendering the country more and more like a typical Middle East state.
It is not a conventional autocratic junta that simply feeds off the local economy.
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The president veers between social democracy and a more autocratic, radical brand of leftism.
Now-deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, although re-elected for the second time by an overwhelming majority, governed in a highly autocratic fashion.
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.
The best they could hope for is a new autocratic ruler whose repressive behavior will enjoy the support of the tyrants next door.
The liberal opposition accuses Mr Morsi of being autocratic and driving through a new constitution that does not protect adequately freedom of expression or religion.
Lessons in leadership from a politician with autocratic tendencies may well conflict with the iron-clad rule of survival as his number two: never pose a threat.
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.
"Firebrand", "egotistical", "autocratic" and "a flamboyant emblem of anti-Americanism" are just some of the labels which the UK papers attach to Hugo Chavez as they reflect on the life of one of Latin America's most colourful leaders.
Middle-of-the-road, middle-class Spaniards are still put off by a whiff of autocratic intolerance in his party.
And after a decade of autocratic rule, the new government will face many demands for change.
Their relationship has been like an autocratic leader's to a wise fool, licensed to speak the truth.
What ideology it inherited Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People envisaged democracy after a period of autocratic rule.
Lanni sets a different tone than autocratic Vegas moguls like Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson.
Many months after the February 17 uprising that rid Libya of Gadhafi and his autocratic rule, Libyans will choose a new government Saturday.
He firmly denies wanting back the autocratic spirit of the old days a lot, but argues that the palace would fit in better with the other historic buildings on or near Unter den Linden avenue.
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