autocratic

Example Sentences

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Some users criticized the launch, warning that it could expose the locations of dissidents and protestors in autocratic states.

From Barron's

The incident was also close to Kober prison, where Bashir awaits trial over the 1989 coup that brought him to power where his lengthy autocratic rule saw protester deaths and alleged war crimes in Darfur.

From Reuters

That has seen money, megayachts and Russian citizens come into the UAE, an autocratic federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula.

From Seattle Times

Critics say the price is eroded civil liberties and an increasingly autocratic police state.

From New York Times

But that achievement, critics say, has come at an incalculable price: mass arrests that swept up thousands of innocent people, the erosion of civil liberties and the country’s descent into an increasingly autocratic police state.

From New York Times