The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

It tells the story of the aftermath of the robbery from Williams ' point of view, in particular describing the mistakes made in the early days by senior officers, and the autocratic nature of Tommy Butler.

They have an autocratic nature.

Hakko-ryu is governed in an autocratic nature.

Some were to the right of the spectrum and pointed to the centuries-old tradition of the autocratic Tsar as being the essence of the Russian nature.

The Cabal began to split in 1672, particularly over the autocratic nature of the King's Royal Declaration of Indulgence, the financing of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, and Britain's relationship with France.

This suited his technocratic ( and sometimes autocratic ) nature, allowing him to focus on necessary and useful but rarely politically interesting or rewarding activities.

Kim Il-Sung apparently recognised that the growing economic strength of the South would only increase over time and would give the South the ability to force reunification on its terms, but also the economic boom and the autocratic nature of the Park administration had given rise to widespread dissent.

In 24 BC, Emperor Cheng considered making her brother Yewang commander of the armed forces, replacing his own uncle Wang Feng ( 王鳳 ), whose autocratic nature he had become resentful of, but he changed his mind after the news was leaked.

Like filial piety, however, loyalty was often subverted by the autocratic regimes of China.

Liberalization of autocratic regimes may precede democratization ( or not, as in the case of the Prague Spring ).

He thus concludes that while Communist regimes are more difficult to eradicate, traditional autocratic regimes " pose the more lethal threat to functioning democracies.

He thus concludes that while Communist regimes are more difficult to eradicate, traditional autocratic regimes " pose the more lethal threat to functioning democracies.

These regimes are autocratic or oligarchic and exclude the upper and middle classes from power.

Totalitarian movements are fundamentally different from autocratic regimes, says Arendt, insofar as autocratic regimes seek only to gain absolute political power and to outlaw opposition, while totalitarian regimes seek to dominate every aspect of everyone's life as a prelude to world domination.

In the modern era, the term Bonapartism has been applied to Fascist states and other authoritarian regimes ; more generally, it is used to refer to any " autocratic, highly centralized regimes dominated by the military.

The CPP resisted the autocratic regimes of the times, and built up militant trade union movements.

His overall view being that the interests of US foreign policy are far better served by the current status quo, whereby the existing autocratic regimes are better able to suppress the threat he perceives from Al Qaida incursion than western style democratic systems.

During the latter half of the 19th century, various left-wing organisations across Europe continued to campaign against the many autocratic right-wing regimes that were then in power.

He and his wife, Queen Elisabeth, were popular in Belgium due to their simple, unassuming lifestyle and their harmonious family life, which stood in marked contrast to the aloof, autocratic manner and the irregular private life of Leopold II.

In contrast to the autocratic, the practice of a participative leadership style involves employees in decision-making.

By contrast, many younger players, such as Frank Mahovlich, chafed at Imlach's autocratic coaching style.

This concept is often defined in contrast to the big man syndrome-the autocratic rule by the so called " big men " of African politics during the first two decades after independence.

Chenghua's reign was also more autocratic than his predecessors ' and freedom was sharply curtailed when Chenghua established institutes such as the Xi Chang ( to complement the existing Dong Chang ), monitoring all civilians ' actions and words.

The emperor's role became more autocratic, although Zhu Yuanzhang necessarily continued to use what he called the " Grand Secretaries " ( 内阁 ) to assist with the immense paperwork of the bureaucracy, including memorials ( petitions and recommendations to the throne ), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records.

A dictator is a ruler ( e. g. absolutist or autocratic ) who assumes sole and absolute power ( sometimes, but not always, with military control or bribes ) but not officially sanctioned by heritage, as in an absolute monarch.

The early colonial governors held an almost autocratic power due to the distance from and poor communications with Great Britain, until 1824 when the New South Wales Legislative Council, Australia's first legislative body, was appointed to advise the governor.

The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October.

He ranked along with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Göring, Himmler, and Martin Bormann as the senior Nazi with the most access to Hitler, which in an autocratic regime meant access to power.

The dreaded instrument became synonymous in Western European languages with what was seen as the tyrannical cruelty of the autocratic government of Russia, much as the sjambok brought to mind the Apartheid government of South Africa or the bullwhip was associated with the period of slavery and Jim Crow laws in America.

Membership declined with the problems of an autocratic structure, mismanagement, and unsuccessful strikes.

The politics of Monaco have traditionally been under the autocratic control of the Prince of Monaco, and from its founding, the principality was a monarchy ruled by the House of Grimaldi ; however, with the creation of a Constitution in 1911, the Prince relinquished his autocratic rule and the principality became a constitutional monarchy.

This support came from the British press in the form of Viscount Astor, Lord Beaverbrook and former WW1 Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who were trenchant critics of the autocratic style of Winston Churchill and favoured replacing Winston with Menzies.

Proponents of continuity cite a variety of contributory factors: it is argued that it was Lenin, rather than Stalin, whose civil war measures introduced the Red Terror with its hostage taking and internment camps, that it was Lenin who developed the infamous Article 58, and who established the autocratic system within the Communist Party.

Fulk's autocratic style contrasted with the somewhat collegic association with their monarch that native Eastern Franks had come to enjoy.

She soon established herself as an autocratic ruler, using her popularity with the imperial guards and lesser nobility.

Beginning with Syngman Rhee, a series of oppressive autocratic governments took power in South Korea with American support and influence.

As Rosa Luxemburg explained in The Mass Strike, when collective strike activity was met with repression from an autocratic state, economic and political demands grew into and reinforced each other.

He became the first truly autocratic native Swedish sovereign and was a skilled propagandist and bureaucrat, with his main opponent, Christian's, infamous mark as the " tyrant king " and his alleged adventures during the liberation struggle still widespread to date.

Alcibiades is appointed commander-in-chief with autocratic powers and leaves for Samos to rejoin his fleet.

In the Byzantine Empire, the still autocratic Emperors passed general legal measures assigning all bishops certain rights and duties in the secular administration of their dioceses, but that was part of a caesaropapist development putting the Eastern Church in the service of the Empire, with its Ecumenical Patriarch almost reduced to the Emperor's minister of religious affairs.

Through his vast estates he was the richest man in England, and his great wealth, ostentatious display of it, autocratic manner and attitudes, enormous London mansion ( the Savoy Palace on the Strand ) and association with the failed peace process at Bruges combined to make him the most visible target of social resentments.

Alcibiades was appointed commander-in-chief with autocratic powers and left for Samos to rejoin his fleet and try and engage Lysander in battle.

Yuan Shikai ( 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916 ) was an important Chinese general and politician, famous for his influence during the late Qing Dynasty, his role in the events leading up to the abdication of the last Qing Emperor of China, his autocratic rule as the second President of the Republic of China ( following Sun Yatsen ), and his short-lived attempt to revive the Chinese monarchy, with himself as the " Great Emperor of China.