Sentences with phrase «very autocratic»

Rail: We all know André Breton was very autocratic as a person and very doctrinaire as a leader.

I came out of medicine with very autocratic attitudes, «Do this» or «Do that,» and having it happen.

«It's a very autocratic leader - driven process that stifles legislators from exercising their individual authority to affect legislative change.»

It is a very autocratic organisation and there is no room for criticism.

Not exact matches

Entrepreneurial characteristics tend to be very independent, autocratic and wanting things to be done in a particular way.

The very existence of power relations, the inequality of the strong and the weak, the mastery of the former over the latter, the differentiation between ruler and ruled was attributed by nineteenth century liberals to autocratic government and is attributed by contemporary Marxists to the class structure of society.

Writing in Commonweal, Peter Steinfels, senior religion reporter for the New York Times, describes what is now a very tired scenario: «A church that is democratic, egalitarian, open, embracing, tolerant, innovating, lay - led, diverse, and affirmative of American values is pitted against a church that is autocratic, hierarchical, dogmatic, discriminating, clerical, monolithic, and committed to a European past.»

It can also be very difficult — see, for example, the many accounts of Sir Montagu Norman's autocratic rule in the early part of the 20th century when he was the bane of all chancellors of any political colour.