Sentence examples for autocratic governing from inspiring English sources

Despite his successes, Schmidt's economic policies and autocratic governing style increasingly alienated the left wing of his Social Democratic Party.

The strong police crackdown on those demonstrations spawned widespread anger in Turkey and quickly morphed into broader protests against what Mr. Erdogan's critics called his arrogant and autocratic governing style.

The prime minister expressed alarm about the growth of terrorism in Iraq but did not acknowledge that political tensions in Iraq or that his own autocratic governing style had contributed to the problem.

Some I.O.C. delegates had expressed reluctance trying to forecast Turkey's political situation seven years from now, given regional instability, what some critics in the country call the autocratic governing style of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and a divide between secularists and Islamists.

Desperate to compete in continental style massed-start road races such as the Tour de France (there were none in Britain at the time), a group of cyclists broke away from the autocratic governing body, the National Cyclists Unionn, in the 1950s.

That kind of thinking is a step toward autocratic governing, and almost always makes society ripe for eliminating more and more disfavored groups.

Wes Santee had frequent problems with the Amateur Athletic Union, at that time the autocratic national governing body for track and field and many other Olympic sports.

Many of those who gathered after a call on Facebook to demonstrate expressed indignation about what they perceived as Mr. Berlusconi's autocratic style in governing Italy.

Latin America's fourth-largest economy may also grind to a halt on Tuesday, as dissident business leaders have promised, in protest against what they see as Mr. Chávez's autocratic style of governing and his treatment of oil company managers.

Most revolutions simply replace one autocratic government with another.

In Turkmenistan, the autocratic government has not identified eHealth as a major policy area.