Sentences with phrase «from autocratic rule»

This blog explores the role of soccer at a time of transition of the Middle East from autocratic rule to a more open society.

This blog explores the role of soccer at a time of transition of the Middle East from autocratic rule to a more open society.

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He is violently opposed to concepts of God derived from autocratic forms of government, at whose word everything began, whose rule is by divine fiat, and who is ultimately responsible for all evil and suffering.

These societies were not necessarily full democracies in which citizens cast votes, but they were radically different from the autocratic, inherited rule found — or assumed — in most early societies.

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.