The phrase "autocratic forces" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to groups or entities that exercise absolute power or authority, often in a dictatorial manner.
Example: "The rise of autocratic forces in the region has led to increased tensions and instability among neighboring countries."
Alternatives: "authoritarian powers" or "dictatorial regimes".
I have had my mind changed on certain issues but never my conviction that we needed to fight for our rights and liberties under Labour and that there are still fairly autocratic forces in the woodwork.
Pitched against these autocratic forces are Brentford Orsini, keeper of the city's greenhouses, and louche, cynical Professor Gabriel d'Allier, through whose interleaved viewpoints this story of political intrigue is told.
It remains to be seen whether events to date will prove to be watershed moments in the Middle East and North Africa's political history, or simply a transferal of autocratic power from one despotic political force to another.
In a Passive model, the storyteller maintains autocratic power.
In the age of globalization and social media, cultural hegemony knows no borders: a global pop icon — even a merely feckless, insolent one — can threaten to infiltrate an autocratic state, forcing its leaders to reappraise the meaning and methodology of maintaining "order" and "purity".
In April, in an alliance with the democratic parties, they led popular protests against the autocratic King Gyanendra, forcing him to cede power.
"What is going to happen next?" On Feb. 14, Shiites tried to hold a "day of rage," modeled on the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt that forced out autocratic presidents.
The day after popular pressure forced Tunisia's autocratic president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali from power on 14 January, Egypt's government declared that it "respects the will of the Tunisian people".
On 15 March 1917, the supreme ruler of Russia, the autocratic Tsar Nikolas II, was forced to abdicate in the face of revolution.
And now, a mere half year later, an increasingly autocratic President Zardari has been forced to restore the chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry.
Nasheed, who became the Maldives' first democratically elected president in 2008 after 30 years of autocratic rule, claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint and has challenged Waheed to resign and order an immediate election.
