Sentence examples for autocratic regime from inspiring English sources

And then Yeltsin established an autocratic regime.

"They overlook the fact that China is an autocratic regime and we are a democracy".

"The police are despised and perceived as the oppressive wing of an autocratic regime," he said.

What has happened in Libya sends a clear signal to autocratic regime all over the world.

Many Westerners fervently hoped that a democratic country would triumph economically over an autocratic regime.

Critics said he was using political spin to prop up a corrupt, autocratic regime.

Take Belarus, about the last truly autocratic regime left in Europe, and Russia's closest Slavic ally.

Iran's transition into a less autocratic regime has been slow, but it is coming.

Russia's last autocratic regime -- the Soviet Union -- produced neither an efficient state nor economic growth.

But after nearly 14 years in power, he faces an unprecedented electoral challenge to his autocratic regime.

The trouble is that, through ruthlessness, Saddam Hussein's autocratic regime held together a nation of disparate factions.