Sentence examples for autocratic control from inspiring English sources

Many are justifiably angry about the military's autocratic control — and will be angrier still if economic conditions deteriorate further.

In 1980, William, with assistance from Freddie, attempted to take over the company from Charles, who, they felt, had assumed autocratic control.

"My experiencewith Gordimer is that she acted in relation tothe manuscript like the stereotype of ThaboMbeki, an autocratic control freak," Robertssaid.

Sharp's autocratic control of the early folk revival and his heavy-handed treatment, in particular, of his first collaborator and former friend Mary Neal still inspire lively debate.

Hébert's autocratic control virtually guaranteed that conflict would break out on the North Texas plains, where the controversies of secession and slavery still seethed.

"To get his million-dollar-plus salary plus all that founder's stock and autocratic control of Current, Gore had to put up a million-dollar loan," Mr. Kelleher wrote.

If your internal workings tend towards insecurity and anxiety, you will be an autocratic, controlling and untrusting leader who repeatedly slips back into managing others' work for them.

When the autocratic ecclesiastical control over Western painting weakened under Renaissance humanism, the religious narrative picture became a window onto a terrestrial rather than a celestial world.

If, on the other hand, they start the season nowhere and continue in that vein, then the pressure created by the force of nature that is Alonso, the autocratic and controlling Dennis and Honda's fear of loss of face risks driving them to breaking point.

That will be the end of an era for a family, the Al Saud, who literally gave their name to a wealthy but autocratic country that controls 20% of the world's oil reserves and dominates a strategic and volatile region.

Dr. Silber, who transformed Boston into a university of national prominence, and Mr. Goldin are described by people who know them in strikingly similar terms like hard charging, brilliant, autocratic, demanding, courageous, controlling and moralistic.