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• n  a cruel and oppressive dictator

• Worse, the attempt to install Abbas as the new autocrat is no more likely to bring peace than having Arafat in that role did.
• But Indonesia's onetime autocrat has been far busier than most of his countrymen realize.
• One of the few autocrats brought to power by World War II was a stern but kindly old gentleman who had no claim to kingship, no ambition to tyranny, and no practice in governing.

• tyrant
• despot

News & Articles

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• Bruce Bochy: Picking Yasiel Puig for All-Star Game is ‘a really long shot’
  As manager of the National League squad, Bruce Bochy of the San Francisco Giants has a lot of say in who makes the All-Star team. He's not an autocrat, it's not up to him alone, but he and Jim Leyland … Continue reading ?
  June 20, 2013 - Big League Stew via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• Jerry Brown in Xinhua
  The notion that the president can act like some medieval autocrat and impose the law as he sees it violates the fundamental basis of the American Constitution,said Attorney General Jerry Brown, whose staff lawyers represent the commission at...
• Roger Goodell in New York Times
  In Thursday's strip, "Goodell" says, "If all I punish are black guys, then yeah, people might think I'ma racist. But I'm not a racist. That hurts my heart. Look, I'm an autocrat, that's all. I'll punish anyone and like it."
• Ahmed Kathrada in Joburg
  Charming and charismatic, he has both a magnetic personality and a commanding presence,writes Kathrada. "An uncommon amalgam of peasant and aristocrat, he is a living paradox: a democrat par excellence, with just a touch of the autocrat;...