Sentence examples for if autocratic from inspiring English sources

Remembered as a charismatic if autocratic leader, Sukarno's anti-colonial outlook was also criticized by the West, Sukarnoputri notes.

He was, at the same time, a loving, if autocratic and sometimes disappointed father to their several children.

Having lived under a dictatorship with few state institutions since 1969, Libyans are trying to do more than introduce democracy to a country with existing, if autocratic, structures, as pro-democracy activists in Tunisia and Egypt are seeking to do.

Mr. Putin asked why the United States was seeking to take out stable if autocratic leaders like Mr. Assad and why it was so intent on waging war in the Middle East.

Yet the DPJ has still to convince voters that it is as capable of ruling as it is of obstruction; or, indeed, that its private if autocratic leader even wants to lead the country.

Where once it used to be benevolent, if autocratic, butchers and bakers running football clubs, now it is men to whom the bottom line is the balance sheet and the cut of their tailored trousers.

Modern history in other parts of the world indicates that people will accept to live in autocratic political systems if their standard of living continues to improve.

After the Congress of Vienna, a small Kingdom of Poland, known as Congress Poland, was recreated, with its king being the Tsar of Russia, Alexander I. Alexander I, an enlightened autocrat, decided to use Congress Poland as an experiment to see if Russian autocratic rule could be mixed with an elective legislative system, and rule Poland as a constitutional monarchy.

There is something stubborn, if not autocratic, about the folklorist's mission.

His role in funding and organising Brazil's World Cup victories was important, if typically autocratic.

As if the autocratic regimes in Moscow and Tashkent need real provocation to obstruct civil society organisations.