Sentences with phrase «even autocratic»

The rules are entirely unreasonable, a fact even the autocratic Vernon realizes, but he evokes the strict conditions anyway, assuming they will keep the students under control while he sort of supervises them from his office across the hall.

It was not that the older presidents lacked great, even autocratic, authority, but that the present task was so formidable: the institutions had to be made over entirely, and made answerable to new constituencies.

Not exact matches

Thus it comes about that no State, even the most autocratic, is morally neutral, for those who exercise authority within it are morally responsible beings.

I realise that Chechnya, as Kadyrov's private fiefdom, is far worse than the rest of Russia but even with that in mind Russia's backslide into autocratic thuggery under Putin should be condemned for what it is.

He points out that even in autocratic systems, collective leaderships tend to fare better than single person dictatorships.

«Particularly, by the autocratic nature of our president, the Federal Government is not prepared to listen to wise counsel, hence the desperation to take unwarranted loans even if the future of Nigeria and its people will be mortgaged.

In fact the USA has intervened in the Russia civil war by siding with the Tsar (an autocratic system like Monarchy; even though Woodrow Wilson was known for its idealist, non-interventionist, mindset).

But even those who don't share Greenblatt's political perspective should find his well - informed survey of the making and unmaking of autocratic rulers to be instructive and entertaining.

In the first chapter, Massie writes: «Even as Empress Catherine, at the height of her autocratic power, she wished not only to be admired for her extraordinary mind and obeyed as an empress, but also to find the elemental creature...

And yet, even in the face of an official investigation, Bharucha continued with his autocratic and self - defeating ways.

The autocratic tendencies that have crept into the current administation have moved to silence even factual information on the subject.

The plot as such looks to me like an interesting scientific question (influence of CO2) coincided with a period of natural warming to create a political jihad that, like Communism before it, renounces market and natural forces in favor of central planning and autocratic control, to in some way save us from ourselves even if we have to destroy civilization to do it.