Sentences with phrase «under autocratic»

Bulawayo's words paint a clear yet lyrical message of life in Zimbabwe, a country in turmoil for decades under autocratic rule.

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But under the golden halo of absolute power, they became an autocratic «bad emperor» without any formal constitutional means of ridding the system of its excesses.

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.

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.

After resigning from the school system in 1899 because she disagreed with the autocratic approach of the new superintendent, Young earned her doctorate under Dewey.

Tensions in Egypt boiled over in January 2011, following 30 years of autocratic rule under former president Hosni El Sayed Mubarak; protestors filled Tahrir Square, which became the catalyst for two governments being overthrown, first in 2011 and, following the election of the Moslem Brotherhood, in 2013.