Instead of being a diplomat, Mr. Bennings was more of an autocrat. From LearnThat.org.
Besides, let us not forget that an autocrat is tied very closely to success. From Wordnik.com. [Hitlerism] Reference
Food price protests were seen a factor in the ousting of Indonesia's long-term autocrat. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Apparently, McCain thought Zapatero was a Latin American autocrat. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to Disturbia] Reference
I was an "autocrat" whose saving grace, such as it was, came from the vague quality of being "larger than life.". From Wordnik.com. [My Times] Reference
An autocrat is not necessarily a tyrant. From Wordnik.com. [Parsing Putin] Reference
Indonesia's long-term autocrat Suharto in 1998. From Wordnik.com. [WRAPUP 1-Food inflation threat moves to top of Asia policy agenda | Reuters] Reference
In vain she proudly called herself "autocrat"; she saw her stepmother, her rival, lifting up her head. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12] Reference
Well, I don't know, only she seemed more like well, a kind of autocrat, you know, who'd stop at nothing. From Wordnik.com. [If: a play in four acts] Reference
It was curious how he was growing to be a kind of autocrat in the village; and how unconscious he was of it. From Wordnik.com. [My Lady Ludlow] Reference
Could anyone but an autocrat have performed such feats?. From Wordnik.com. [No Time For Parades] Reference
Estrada, of course, is not an autocrat like Marcos was. From Wordnik.com. [PEOPLE POWER II] Reference
Governor, who is not an autocrat like the President of the United. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Consider Russia, where Vladimir Putin was elected but rules like an autocrat. From Wordnik.com. [How To Wage War] Reference
On the wall behind the autocrat hangs a map of Poland; near the Queen, one of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
The henpecked autocrat Grant bristles at having his marital fidelity questioned. From Wordnik.com. [Matt's TV Week in Review] Reference
The autocrat of the neighbourhood at that time was Henry Fiennes Clinton, second Earl of. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
But gradually McDiarmid turns into a barking autocrat shrieking "I want rules and order.". From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of Homburg] Reference
The father was the autocrat in the household, and exercised his power with stern rigidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Even if the autocrat is ousted sooner, the damage to Zimbabwe will likely linger for decades. From Wordnik.com. [‘People Have Begun to Fight Back’] Reference
Antony and Octavius were now to wrestle for the supremacy, and the victor was to be autocrat. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
The Roman autocrat broke the ominous seal, and, turning deathly pale, read out the following. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The governor promptly ordered a review of the state's role as autocrat of the breakfast table. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Bitter Vigilance] Reference
With the former run by a rambunctious socialist autocrat and the latter by a U. S.-aligned. From Wordnik.com. [Why Is Colombia Putting The Screws To Chavez Now?] Reference
Instead of the unassailable autocrat, we see a grouchy manager who is feeling sorry for himself. From Wordnik.com. [Fabio Capello keen to convey sense of the new and regain old renown] Reference
It was well, for the next moment we were summoned to the presence of that soft-hearted autocrat. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
But the protocol-conscious autocrat may not show unless high-level U.S. officials are also there. From Wordnik.com. ['A Big Adventure'] Reference
The CEO is traditionally an autocrat, however talented and benevolent he (almost always he) may be. From Wordnik.com. [ONE MORE PINK SLIP?] Reference
"I come, autocrat, and I shall much enjoy getting out of this head-gear," shaking her bewigged head. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
A suspicious autocrat, he has stepped out of the way as a toxic brew came to poison the life of Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [The Cop on the Banks of the Nile] Reference
Even had he been the wisest man, he was not an autocrat and could not have thus transcended his powers. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Knowing all this -- knowing that, save in the magnitude of his power to do wrong, the autocrat of all the. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Above all, Pakistanis hope Zardari will not turn into another autocrat given his extensive presidential powers. From Wordnik.com. [‘Victory for Democracy’] Reference
In fact, since his landslide election in 1998, critics of the Venezuelan president have called him an autocrat. From Wordnik.com. [Chavez's Military Maneuvers] Reference
Even in recent months, as Asia's miracle turned into mire, the sphinx-faced autocrat managed to keep up appearances. From Wordnik.com. [Now It's Epidemic] Reference
On style, Fenty is in trouble because he is widely seen as a self-absorbed autocrat who is unresponsive to citizens. From Wordnik.com. [Adrian Fenty, Vincent Gray and the politics of race and class in D.C.] Reference
Iranian autocrat Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is blessing us with his annual pilgrimage to the United Nations General Assembly. From Wordnik.com. [Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Mahmoud's Media Minions] Reference
If Hillary Clinton had been seen with a discredited former autocrat, it would have made front pages across the country. From Wordnik.com. [Here an F.O.B., There an F.O.B.] Reference
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