Sentences with phrase «as autocrat»

In an absolute monarchy, the monarch rules as an autocrat, with absolute power over the state and government — for example, the right to The instrumental temperature record provides the temperature of Earth's climate system from the historical network of in situ measurements of surface air

In an absolute monarchy, the monarch rules as an autocrat, with absolute power over the state and government — for example, the right to

Still, Republicans like the unflattering parallel, especially when it casts the governor as an autocrat who favors his friends, bends politics to his will and punishes enemies.

At the other extreme is Nicolae Ceauşescu, whom Eliza Gheorghe describes as an autocrat capitalizing on his reputation for an independent foreign policy — «the de Gaulle of the East».

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In 64 years of supporting Arsenal, I have never felt so dispirited with an obsessive autocrat as manager and an obsessive, hidden financial autocrat as owner.

As for Diaby getting a new contract, I sincerely feel for him but it is all rumours; but again Wenger is an autocrat..

He is also seemingly an autocrat, though that may be a product of the environment as when Dein was there he was far more balanced.

There's plenty of ways to cut down on the electorate without going so far as to have a single dictator / autocrat in charge of everything.

Further to the previous question, however, will my right hon. Friend now use it as an illustration to persuade permanent members of the Security Council, such as Russia and China, that a well conducted intervention can be successfully used to restrain autocrats in countries such as Syria?

The people of NYC are stupid if they elect autocrat Ray Kelly as their next mayor.

These old - time political hands, state pensioners in their twilight years now, watched with growing disdain as the son, who cut his political teeth in his early 20s as his father's $ 1 - a-year aide with an all - access backstage pass to state government, rewrote his father's playbook and earned a reputation, they say, as a ram - it - through autocrat with a wide bullying streak.

He once described himself as a «taskmaster and autocrat in the classroom,» motivated by his overriding concern for his students and the rigid demands they would face in professional schools.

Not only do we get the always enjoyably oily Malcolm McDowell as a vaguely Trump - ish autocrat who runs the race; Manu Bennett as a stoic yet dryly funny bad - ass hero; Marci Miller as his plucky sidekick (of sorts); Folake Olowofoyeku as a maniacal rock star who mows down on her owns fans; Anessa Ramsey as an insane evangelist who does the same to her own flock; Burt Grinstead (wonderfully manic) as a genetically enhanced, sexually confused, super-muscular man - child; and veteran character actor Yancy Butler as the furious leader of several ill - fated race protesters.

The timepieces that play a role in Honig's fictional novel were offered as tributes to Putin the autocrat, a bribe for attention or favor, a more corrupt intention than the Cloisonné liqueur set given to Richard Nixon by Brezhnev during the May, 1972 SALT talks.

Prey's Alex Yu is an overweight autocrat who is portrayed largely as duplicitous and self - serving.

Nappelbaum's modest gelatin silver print from the early»30s of Stalin in his trademark worker's tunic and boots stands in as the sole representative in the show of the cult of personality that characterized the autocrat's long rule.

To his supporters, he is a brave truth - teller and unrelenting humanist; a latter - day Bertrand Russell... Some of Chomsky's critics have accused him of going easy on the faults of autocrats so long as they are enemies of the US.

The Canadian Justice Review Board is a coalition of citizens who are concerned that the rules and laws by which they are governed are at risk when courts claim powers for themselves to operate as benevolent autocrats and to rule as they please.