How to Use autocratic in a Sentence

autocratic

adjective

• Needless to say, these are not the signs of a healthy democracy ready to combat the autocratic tyrants of the world.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 27 May 2021
• That means that, rather than the top-down approach of autocratic leadership, managers are interested in bringing out the best in their teams.
  — Kara Dennison, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• Both Chávez and Maduro have abused the country’s democratic institutions and put in place one of the worst autocratic regimes in the world.
  — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Biden has framed his effort there as trying to demonstrate that the world’s democracies can solve tough problems at a moment when autocratic governments have grown more influential.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 10 June 2021
• Those who argue that democracy is a failing system are led by China, whose autocratic regime has succeeded in lifting millions upon millions out of poverty.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 24 June 2021
• During the long, autocratic reign of Moammar Khadafy, floods came and went, but the dams stood.
  — James Glanz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• During the long, autocratic reign of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, floods came and went, but the dams stood.
  — James Glanz, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• And the financiers had lost much of their Sudanese income with the fall of the autocratic leader Omar al-Bashir.
  — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• Yet the road to a less autocratic Turkey remains rocky.
  — Jillian Kay Melchior, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
• That came at the price of autocratic rule and corruption.
  — Amir Vahdat, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
• But that is only the most vivid sign of how autocratic practices are making inroads around the world.
  — Michael Crowley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• What happens to a child growing up amidst the clamour of an autocratic regime?
  — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
• What the worship misses is the flipside of Mrs. Pelosi’s autocratic rule: the fallout.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
• But its influence—and that of its autocratic leader, Elon Musk—has come at a cost.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 26 July 2023
• Twelve months later, parts of Ukraine lie in ruins, but autocratic leaders around the world are now the ones that are faltering.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 6 Jan. 2023
• These young artists, the future impressionists, loathed the autocratic regime of Napoleon III.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• The real Oz Nelson knew how to be tough and persuasive instead of tough and autocratic.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
• But the long-term agendas of thugocrats face obstacles at home and abroad despite the autocratic ways of leaders even in Moscow and Beijing and Tehran.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2022
• Next month’s election is a crucial test of whether the country’s autocratic ruling party can be checked at the ballot box.
  — Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2023
• The Egyptian protests came amid a wave of demonstrations against autocratic governments across the Arab world.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021
• But for many members, the problem was not a loss of faith in the cause, but frustration with the autocratic nature of party leadership.
  — Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024
• In the capital, where protests against him clogged the streets for years, Mr. Moïse was seen as being increasingly autocratic.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2021
• That’s the playbook of ruling parties in autocratic states.
  — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
• This leadership style is the opposite of the autocratic style.
  — Chastity Heyward, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• For years, autocratic regimes have been in a race to heighten those walls, as their citizens develop taller and taller ladders.
  — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
• Cambodia is set for its first transfer of power in almost four decades — to the son of its autocratic prime minister.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• The problems have sparked debate among economists about whether Xi’s increasingly autocratic regime is to blame, and what a major slowdown could mean for the rest of the world.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
• Sudan is also home to refugees from conflicts and autocratic rule in countries such as Eritrea, Ethiopia and Syria.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Advertisement Trump and Harris align in their opposition to the autocratic governments in Venezuela and Nicaragua.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
• As the American public seems increasingly receptive to autocratic tactics, these questions become even more pressing.
  — Cecilia Menjívar, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024