Examples of autocrat in a Sentence

European autocrats once commonly believed that they had received the right to rule directly from God.

Recent Examples on the Web The protagonist is a goat named Destiny, an exile returning to the fictional African nation of Jidada after the ouster of its longtime autocrat, Old Horse (explicitly modelled on Robert Mugabe), by a new authoritarian, called the Savior. — The New Yorker, 2 May 2022 But critics think of him as something else: an autocrat, a diss only matched by the facts. — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2022 Experts have described Orbán as a new-school despot, a soft autocrat, an anocrat, and a reactionary populist. — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 In 1804, another modernizing autocrat, Napoleon Bonaparte, arrested Louis Antoine, the duke of Enghien, on suspicion of sedition. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022 Another autocrat, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had warm ties with Putin, has invoked a 1930s convention that could complicate Russia’s Black Sea naval operations. — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 28 Feb. 2022 Their resistance against fearsome odds is an inspiration and has awakened the world to the menace of the Kremlin autocrat. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2022 Bismarck was a cacophony of contradictions: an autocrat who fostered democracy, a fierce Prussian who promoted German nationalism, an ultraconservative who courted socialists, a warmonger who mastered diplomacy. — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022 To put things mildly, Putin is not a good actor on the global stage, but the Russian autocrat is not the primary cause of pain at the pump, in the grocery store, or anywhere in between. — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 7 May 2022 See More

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