Sentence examples for ruling autocracy from inspiring English sources
If the ruling autocracy suddenly gives way to the public will, radical Islamist groups could force a frightened military into a crackdown or take over and crush dissenting voices, and the country will be no more democratic than it was before (and potentially a lot less friendly to the United States).
Those of the opposite opinion point to the fact that the Islamists have hijacked the youths' revolution, just as the mullahs of Iran did more than thirty years ago -- and they are still in power, ruling through a religious autocracy.
The Party is not simply an account of how the party succeeds in ruling through its mechanisms of autocracy.
Melzi was the most clear-sighted exponent of an older moderate ruling class that still yearned for enlightened autocracy.
One by one the protesters withstood each weapon in the arsenal of the Egyptian autocracy — first the heavily armed riot police, then a ruling party militia and finally the state's powerful propaganda machine.
The Europeans are right to look askance at the looming crisis of succession in Egypt, beleaguered Israel, unborn Palestine, divided Lebanon, fundamentalist Islam in Morocco, bombs in Algeria, Muammar Qaddafi's bizarre Libyan autocracy, the risk that the Turkish courts declare the ruling party unconstitutional.
For them illiberal democracy may be and often is a retrograde step ruling out genuine democracy and seeing illiberal democracy as a cloak for autocracy, even dictatorship.
By the same token, FIFA has effectively been a pillar of autocracy in the Middle East and North Africa by seldom intervening in a world in which soccer associations are controlled by the ruler's pawns or members of ruling families.
Arpaio appealed that ruling.
So do everyone a favor: follow Masha Gessen's Autocracy: Rules for Survival.
