Sentence examples for monocracy from inspiring English sources

But his critics, including the main opposition party, the Socialists, said they would increase the power of the already semiroyal president, creating a "monocracy".

While royal rule, as legitimized by blood descent, had almost vanished as an effective principle of government in the modern world, monocracy a term that comprehends the rule of non-Western royal absolutists, of generals and strongmen in Latin America and Asia, of a number of leaders in postcolonial Africa, and of the totalitarian heads of communist states still flourished.