Sentence examples for highly autocratic from inspiring English sources

"These highly autocratic regimes can use their international connections to enhance their domestic positions and extract concessions from the outside world," said Stephen D. Krasner, a political science professor at Stanford University.

If Mr Putin, widely seen as Russia's real boss, decides to return when Mr Medvedev's first term expires in 2012, he could then be looking at another 12 years in power.The planned extension of the presidential term was accompanied by liberal gestures that would in practice make little difference to Russia's highly autocratic political system.

I was extremely autocratic.

Critics say it also shows that McAuliffe, who has billed himself as a bipartisan consensus builder, would take a highly partisan, autocratic approach to governing.

But even within the context of a wider movement, the role of Alexander II, through his position as autocratic ruler, was a highly important one.

An architect of the Palestinians' self-rule agreement with Israel has apparently quit Yasir Arafat's provisional government out of frustration with Mr. Arafat's leadership, attacked by many Palestinians as highly rigid and by some as fully autocratic.

As Cambodian politics becomes more autocratic and divisive, it's highly unlikely the country's general election, scheduled for July, will be free and fair.

Building pro-growth, pro-democracy coalitions is made more difficult by the highly skewed distributions of income and power typically inherited from narrow autocratic systems.

He can claim credit for what Forbes magazine called "the hottest league in world sport," but critics have seen him as autocratic, secretive and unaccountable, making powerful enemies in the highly politicized world of Indian cricket.

During his highly anticipated address in Cairo last June, Obama failed to praise his autocratic host, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

Domscheit-Berg, whose book Inside Wikileaks is due to be published at the end of January is highly critical of the "lack of transparency" at WikiLeaks, and of Assange's "autocratic leadership", saying he "would no more trust it as an organisation than I would any other organisation with similar problems".