autocratic

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In 1979 Americans immediately felt the malign effects of that year’s Islamic revolution, which replaced the autocratic but modernizing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Huerta became one of Chavez’s fiercest defenders even after revelations about his autocratic ways became public — but what else was she supposed to do when people tied so much of her identity to him?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

The party was already highly secretive before Xi took power in 2012, but his tilt toward autocratic rule has made Chinese politics even more opaque and sparked a resurgence in Pekingology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

But she also presided over an autocratic government that crushed dissent, and now faces court cases alleging the looting of national wealth.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

He worshiped Johnny and did not like Dove, but he and Dove were bound together by their common servitude to Johnny’s autocratic rule.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes