Though when he does, it's hard not to see a connection between autocratic regimes and autocratic fathers.
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Her transgression led to a suspension in 1929 by the autocratic head of the Amateur Athletic Union, Avery Brundage, who later became the autocratic head of the International Olympic Committee.
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"Most coups are just changes of autocratic leadership," Marshall said.
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Why do people accept such autocratic leadership in a church?
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Trump is often accused of cozying up to autocratic leaders.
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Critics say the assembly will solidify Maduro's increasingly autocratic rule.
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They are more attracted to alternative, even autocratic regime types.
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In an autocratic system or dictatorship, legitimacy is inherently fragile.
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He would also embrace autocratic leaders like Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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This approach has attracted considerable support from other autocratic regimes.
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This aggressive type of autocratic legalism is not here yet.
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Some of his own clergymen called him arrogant and autocratic.
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His autocratic rule has led to multiple comparisons with Mubarak.
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But an autocratic embassy does not a swinging party make.
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In praising Putin, Trump conflates "strong leader" with autocratic rule.
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A disruptive, autocratic president has decided to deport all immigrants.
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As for dictators such as those in the Philippines or Egypt, Trumpism argues that it makes little sense to snub autocratic friends while cutting deals with autocratic enemies like those in Iran or Cuba.
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China, Russia, Iran, Cuba — all countries we consider autocratic and repressive.
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They are convinced Russia should be ruled by an autocratic monarch.
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Such an autocratic approach might not be feasible in today's societies.
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Autocratic regimes have long sought to eliminate former spies living abroad.
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"In democracy, you cannot look like an autocratic force," he said.
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He was autocratic and paranoid, giving the network a bunker mentality.
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History is full of failed autocratic states, but few failed democracies.
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He'd suffered under an autocratic, racist regime led by dogmatic strongmen.
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CCP's true intent is the complete autocratic control of Hong Kong.
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To be sure, businesses face profound hurdles within the autocratic state.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — How does an autocratic ruler trample on the law?
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Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by autocratic China.
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The biggest winner from autocratic legalism was of course the president.
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He held autocratic meetings of the collective, dispensing wrath and love.
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He has also said he admires Putin's autocratic style of leadership.
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China is an autocratic country so they cannot achieve real innovation.
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But much like Trump, Sulzer was corrupt, deceitful, abusive, and autocratic.
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Oil has underpinned an autocratic government with little tolerance for dissent.
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Even bigger questions, however, linger over the world's more autocratic states.
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He laments that Hungary is increasingly resembling autocratic states like Russia.
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Critics faulted Draghi for an autocratic style that Lagarde has softened.
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If you can't be autocratic at my age, when can you?
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Modern expertise would finally be allowed to triumph over autocratic politics.
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Big problems also of actually these things being manipulated autocratic regimes.
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The window for stopping his attempt at autocratic capture is now.
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Some are going so far as to call it an autocratic alliance.
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Democratic Taiwan has shown no interest in being ruled by autocratic China.
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Perhaps even that was too much for the kingdom's increasingly autocratic leaders.
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The once unthinkable—autocratic rule, politicised courts, racialist policies—is now happening.
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But critics say he has become increasingly autocratic and intolerant of dissent.
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And then there is the autocratic leadership style of many black pastors.
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Tech companies automate autocratic media in China around the world Samuel Woolley
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Mr Morales is following the example of other leaders with autocratic tendencies.
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Democratic Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by autocratic China.
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Want to switch from a drug paradise to a militarized autocratic government?
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Democracies are certainly more effective in channeling popular discontent than autocratic regimes.
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Magufuli has denied opposition accusations that his government was becoming increasingly autocratic.
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Zimbabwe's autocratic president has destroyed the economy and wrecked the health service.
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His actions resemble autocratic tendencies, which are clearly threats to Turkish democracy.
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Tech companies automate autocratic media in China around the world Nick Monaco
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The autocratic Mr. Isais has been in power since independence in 1993.
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Trump is not — thank goodness — an autocratic ruler of the United States.
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But that would take power away from Mr. Putin's increasingly autocratic Kremlin.
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We have a manipulative liar with autocratic tendencies as the American president.
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An autocratic rule Moi was born September 2, 1924, in Baringo County.
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The robotic babble emphasizes the youthful autocratic ideology that often propels manifestoes.
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Stern could be an autocratic workaholic who did not suffer fools lightly.
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It also explains his fondness for autocratic strongmen — the ones who dominate.
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Maldives embraced a multiparty democracy 10 years ago after decades of autocratic rule.
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He was chosen fair and square under the autocratic system governing the country.
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The are cruel, ruthless and autocratic, as history has shown only too tragically.
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On Thailand's western front, Burma -- now Myanmar -- became reclusive and autocratic after 1962.
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We can vote for the people who (are) trying to be more autocratic.
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Be optimistic Many, many countries have voted in autocratic clowns, monsters, or narcissists.
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In contrast, WikiLeaks almost never publishes leaks that might undermine America's autocratic rivals.
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He's president for life, utterly in charge of his system of Autocratic Capitalism.
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For his opponents it represents the president's autocratic instincts and lust for power.
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He was horrified to see how autocratic the man became, once in power.
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Trump's parade was unfavorably compared to military parades in autocratic states like Russia.
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That sense of insecurity is likely to make Erdogan more, not less, autocratic.
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The GOP's authoritarian streak predates Trump but intersects with his autocratic political instincts.
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While unquestionably autocratic, Mussolini did not oppose the proliferation of unofficial artistic styles.
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Public outcry can help slow down autocratic legalism, but only to a point.
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Aiding Mr. Modi's autocratic drive are the centralizing provisions of the Indian Constitution.
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It is the latest broadside against pluralism under the increasingly autocratic Mr. Orban.
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Less tangible but perhaps more damaging is the legacy of Piech's autocratic governance.
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He even indulged his autocratic side, taking a jab at the "nasty" press.
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But many nations, particularly more autocratic ones, are loath to change their ways.
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But worldwide, border barriers are more associated with autocratic regimes than free democracies.
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In person, his autocratic streak is presentationally complicated by a Ralph Kramdenesque vulnerability.
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Vladimir Putin, ever more autocratic at home and aggressive abroad, moved into the vacuum.
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The autocratic Chinese authorities learned from Lenin about the fearsome power of the masses.
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I will not, however, be taking my cues about an autocratic despot from her.
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Trump faced accusations of being autocratic and king-like during the Senate impeachment trial.
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As he becomes more autocratic, Mr Erdogan is reversing his own achievements (see article).
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As a consequence, concerns about China's autocratic model were largely shelved in Western capitals.
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Putin continues to project power by propping up autocratic regimes to counter Western influence.
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Mr Poroshenko's autocratic handling of Mr Saakashvili is unlikely to convince the people otherwise.
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But as in any autocratic system, one man, Mr Kaczynski, is ultimately in charge.
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Egypt is now yet more autocratic, in some ways, than when the protests began.
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Trump has long expressed admiration for Russian autocratic leader and international pariah Vladimir Putin.
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" Finally, the statement warns of "any moves toward autocratic political leadership and authoritarian rule.
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People in the US can see just how dangerous an autocratic government can be.
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Perhaps that is why he is so infatuated with Russia's autocratic leader Vladimir Putin.
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The protests became a widespread challenge to his rule, which is growing increasingly autocratic.
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Germany sits at the top and, interestingly, countries with autocratic governments tend to underachieve.
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Autocratic legalism is not easy to achieve in democracies, but it is not impossible.
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As Frank Rich wrote before the election, where Reagan was avuncular, Trump is autocratic.
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Qatar had incensed Riyadh by cheering Arab Spring uprisings against some autocratic Arab rulers.
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If voters remain this disenchanted, more leaders with autocratic streaks are likely to follow.
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Mr. Ortega established an increasingly autocratic rule, taking control over all branches of government.
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Markets are amoral and won't complain about autocratic behavior if it produces economic growth.
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Wall Street research reports on Brazil, Egypt and Saudi Arabia barely mention autocratic tendencies.
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Still, Poland is not yet Hungary, much less Turkey or any other autocratic nation.
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Zoom out: In fully autocratic countries, the simple act of reporting can be dangerous.
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The improving ties between the two autocratic leaders opened the door to greater cooperation.
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The country is heading toward an autocratic form of governance rather a democratic rule.
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Emptying words of meaning is an essential step on the road to autocratic rule.
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Analysts say India is tiring of Modi&aposs autocratic style and failed economic policies.
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But who would be capable of pulling off such activity in the autocratic country?
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It pays to mark the limits of what one might call Mrs May's autocratic democracy.
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The last country with an autocratic government to win the tournament was Argentina in 1978.
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But the tension in Algeria is another sign that the region's autocratic stability is illusory.
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Newer members of the EU, like increasingly autocratic Hungary, challenge the bloc's better social instincts.
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Autocratic governments around the world learned from Egypt and have invested in online-surveillance gear.
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Proudly democratic Taiwan has shown no interest in wanting to be ruled by autocratic China.
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In countries with autocratic rulers, in contrast, coups make little difference in the long run.
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Blame also lies with autocratic Arab countries beyond Egypt who have gone quiet about Gaza.
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Yet the region's autocratic rulers seem intent on replacing one form of oppression with another.
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Yes, but: It remains to be seen how autocratic-leaning populists will respond to pushback.
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For nearly all autocratic-leaning populists, compromise is anathema and holding their political base critical.
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Xi is among the long list of autocratic rulers Trump has developed amicable relations with.
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Kim's autocratic regime also tested a nuclear device underground in September, according to the Pentagon.
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Economic growth and prosperity are critical to retaining elite or oligarchical support for autocratic leaders.
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We have tons of autocratic leaders where everybody with an ambition to build an empire.
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She has also defended her father's autocratic administration, claiming that it was "attacked" by corruption.
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He is making the presidency more authentic or more autocratic, depending on the vantage point.
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Sudan are demanding the ouster of an autocratic ruler.
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What my reporting in Turkey told me about how its autocratic president is seizing power.
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Mr Moreno was elected in 22021 as the successor of Rafael Correa, an autocratic populist.
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After all, manifestoes tend to be the inflammatory issue of angry, autocratic youth, usually male.
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My parents are secular progressives, dissidents who opposed Saddam Hussein's increasingly murderous and autocratic regime.
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Trump is getting comfortable exercising his pardon power, ideal for a man with autocratic tendencies.
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So far his autocratic style has been relatively smooth for Saudis, albeit unorthodox for outsiders.
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"Their autocratic business model has resulted in the closure of thousands of shops," he added.
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At times, he has also sided with the autocratic leader over his own intelligence community.
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On November 21, 2017, Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe's president after 37 years of autocratic rule.
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His photographs of street protests against the autocratic ruler, President Hussain Muhammad Ershad, are strong.
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Putin isn't the only foreign leader with autocratic tendencies that Macron feels prepared to challenge.
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Navalny has likened Putin to an autocratic tsar who has clung to power for too long.
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The legacy of General Alfredo Stroessner's 22013-1989 autocratic rightwing regime also drives Paraguay's cannabis production.
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If elected, her relations with Russia's autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin, would begin in a glacial state.
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Unlike its autocratic Central Asian neighbors, Kyrgyzstan has a relatively powerful parliament while limiting presidential powers.
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The scores of Hungary and Turkey - countries with autocratic leaders - fell in recent years, for example.
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The freedom to tinker has never been unlimited, and various autocratic habits have undermined some experiments.
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Democratic Taiwan, self-ruled since 1949, has no interest in being ruled by the autocratic mainland.
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And as he clung to power over the decades his rule became autocratic, undemocratic and oppressive.
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You're either going to have autocratic, and that's bad, and/or you're going to have democratic.
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Do you imagine our workforce is ready to understand that, or do we like the autocratic?
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Toledo's attorney has slammed the "preventive prison" order as excessive and a hallmark of autocratic regimes.
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Mr Morales is an autocratic socialist who both leads and is constrained by powerful social movements.
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Companies that break the law or act in concert with autocratic governments do not deserve sympathy.
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The result was a foregone conclusion, since his autocratic regime did not permit a "no" campaign.
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What can this tell us about how politics work and the rise of more autocratic leaders?
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Now its autocratic regime is showing that it can create shortages even when nature provides abundance.
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Analysts say he may find himself isolated amid growing criticism of autocratic rule in West Africa.
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But many Kurds seem none too upset, given how autocratic and dirty Mr Barzani's regime is.
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CoupCast finds that both new and very old autocratic regimes are at risk of being overthrown.
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It may also make some Russians think Putin's autocratic style is not so bad after all.
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Critics saw his firing of FBI Director James Comey as evidence of more worrying autocratic instincts.
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Journalists — including me — now fall into Trump and Putin's autocratic worldview as pawns of their foes.
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They give voice and power to people who have neither—and not just in autocratic countries.
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This flood of digital information is a bonanza for intelligence agencies and, especially, for autocratic regimes.
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Autocratic regimes are quick to borrow excuses from the West for cracking down on free speech.
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First, the region's autocratic political model has failed, though monarchies have stood up better than republics.
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This will serve as a pretext for autocratic regimes looking to crackdown on press freedom abroad.
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In the late 1980s protesters' usual targets were autocratic governments that allowed at best sham elections.
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China has depended on economic growth to justify the Communist Party's autocratic political control for decades.
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The government in Saudi Arabia is responsive to public sentiment, even though it's an autocratic regime.
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The best way to defend against a slide to authoritarianism is by voting against autocratic demagogues.
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While control over security forces remains essential in the autocratic playbook, overt strong-arm tactics aren't.
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Autocratic governments around the world have already begun to use emerging technology to violate human rights.
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Scraping the dredges of autocratic states with incompetent security agencies poses risks for the company itself.
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The subsequent step in autocratic legalism is to use and abuse the law to target critics.
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Public outcry against autocratic legalism can work, but only if translates into punishing votes against enablers.
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If household governance is by male fiat, no wonder government winds up autocratic, ineffective and corrupt.
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After transferring to Staten Island, he contested what he considered the autocratic leadership of Local 726.
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Several have slid into autocratic illiberalism; others, like Britain, have chosen to withdraw from international commitments.
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The danger of an American autocratic lurch in 2020 is as great as the virus itself.
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Instead, he came home, helped unseat them and replaced them with his own quasi-autocratic rule.
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No Chinese firm can simply defy the country's autocratic rulers, especially in matters of national security.
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Various studies have shown that women tend to be less autocratic and to work more collaboratively.
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Chechnya's autocratic leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has enjoyed near unconditional support from Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin.
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As businesses look for opportunity in China, they often can't risk upsetting the country's autocratic government.
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Maduro's crackdown on journalists comes after years of autocratic actions that have eroded the country's democracy.
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Autocratic power, both overt and covert, kicked the life out of everything beautiful in the land.
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Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was forced to relinquish power in 2017 after 37 years of autocratic rule.
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Nationalist, populist-autocratic rule is an aggressive form of cancer that is not easy to halt.
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The result of the election, however, was never in doubt, given Putin's autocratic stranglehold on power.
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If there is a threat to steady growth in Poland, it is its recent autocratic turn.
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A growing number of populists and nationalists found much to admire in Mr. Putin's autocratic approach.
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" Weld called Trump a "sick man," a "malignant narcissist," and a "megalomaniac" with "profound autocratic tendencies.
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But his brand of nationalism is playing well in some of the world's more autocratic countries.
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That's the value of local reporters; it's also what makes them ready targets for autocratic regimes.
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The paradox is that the more autocratic the mainland gets the more it needs Hong Kong commercially.
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More worrying to some, however, is the increasingly autocratic tone emanating from the presidential palace in Ankara.
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Fremont, an autocratic man who rarely consulted higher authority, proclaimed that all slaves in Missouri were free.
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After all, autocratic regimes often seek to channel their people's frustrations at external adversaries, real or imagined.
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Like his autocratic predecessor, Berdymukhamedov maintains tight control over the former Soviet republic and brooks no dissent.
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Perhaps because judges are the greatest impediments to autocratic rule, Trump has singled them out most insidiously.
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By the time protests began, both men's wives had become symbols of their corrupt and autocratic regimes.
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The West sees Russia's talk of fighting terrorism as a smokescreen for supporting Mr Assad's autocratic regime.
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Nine years earlier, Saakashvili had led the Rose Revolution, which overturned the country's autocratic post-Soviet leadership.
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The uprisings of the Arab Spring erupted from widespread frustrations with stagnant, autocratic politics and economic lethargy.
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Some of the Westerners dared to suggest that autocratic statism might harm China in the long term.
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Taiwan, which holds presidential elections in January, has shown no interest in being run by autocratic China.
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Many shareholders think the process has been autocratic and opaque, and are upset about the skyrocketing costs.
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Conversely, while Trump's rhetoric is extreme and autocratic, his record is far more moderate on privileges claims.
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Since 2001, using the threat of terrorism or organized crime has played well for furthering autocratic rule.
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However, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was forced to relinquish power in 2017 after 37 years of autocratic rule.
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The film follows a teenager who cooks up a series of pranks to embarrass his autocratic principal.
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He has established a false façade that he is a moderate at odds with Turkey's autocratic leader.
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I witnessed the concept of autocratic legalism while studying Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez between 1999 and 2013.
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And he's no worse than many of the other autocratic actors Washington is compelled to deal with.
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As he became increasingly outspoken, he antagonized both his country's autocratic president, Joseph Kabila, and neighboring Rwanda.
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Just this week, its longtime autocratic ruler, Robert Mugabe, was placed under house arrest by the military.
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The exact nature of Huawei's relations with China's autocratic rulers cannot be established in a single interview.
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"The core of the problem is you have two autocratic governments in Kosovo and Serbia," he said.
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A little more than a century later, the autocratic Karajan resigned in a dispute with the players.
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But relations later soured over U.S. concerns that Erdogan was taking Turkey on an increasingly autocratic course.
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George Szell, the autocratic music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, invited him to be a guest conductor.
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Egypt's former autocratic president Hosni Mubarak has died in hospital aged 91, Egyptian state TV said Tuesday.
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But Putin's autocratic Russia is not the only "international rules" conundrum facing the democratized world right now.
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" By The Post's Robert Costa "Bolton Was Concerned That Trump Did Favors for Autocratic Leaders, Book Says.
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He denies charges made by some local media and opposition politicians that he is an autocratic leader.
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There are other Middle Eastern leaders with autocratic power who would like to do the same thing.
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He fled the country in 2012 fearing for his life as the President's rule became increasingly autocratic.
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Mr. Sechin also publicly, and unexpectedly, pledged to work with Ramzan Kadyrov, the autocratic leader of Chechnya.
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Mr. Trump swoons when his autocratic Chinese or Saudi hosts welcome him with displays of military pageantry.
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There&aposs a global phenomenon of strong men, autocratic leaning leaders that are undermining institutions across the globe.
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Maduro, on the other hand, has the backing of autocratic regimes, including Russia, China, Turkey, Cuba and Nicaragua.
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As far as his ideals of communism go, seeing these photos side-by-side feels eerily autocratic. —A.
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Trump has exhibited autocratic impulses since his 2016 campaign and from the moment he entered the White House.
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Seven years ago, when Arabs revolted against their autocratic rulers, European leaders engaged in a collective mea culpa.
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That said, China's slowing economy, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and its increasingly autocratic system introduces new vulnerabilities.
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Unlike the autocratic regimes to its east, Turkey relies on credit, not oil or gas, to generate growth.
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The country's autocratic leaders are enraged, but on June 2nd they insisted they still seek "dialogue and consultation".
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In some countries, that's the problem, and in being able to protect yourself in countries that are autocratic.
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Libya&aposs longtime autocratic leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed several years later after a Western-backed military intervention.
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It owes its success to circumstance: wars, terrorism and the utter failure of autocratic regimes in Arab states.
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The result marked a political humiliation for Serbia's beleaguered opposition parties, which say Vucic's rule is increasingly autocratic.
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Trump has made no secret of his hopes to establish better relations with Putin and his autocratic regime.
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"A stunning intrusion on press freedom, similar to what we see in autocratic regimes," observed journalist Yashar Ali.
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Only time will tell which way this fragile country will finally sway—autocratic regime or a true democracy.
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Historical experience with the autocratic capture of law enforcement bureaucracies provides no grounds at all for such optimism.
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As Mr Erdogan's rule became increasingly autocratic, Mrs Merkel often chided him for nobbling dissidents and the press.
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Autocratic governments that were blindsided when the internet took off in the mid-1990s have regained their vision.
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Despite Zuckerberg's vision of democracy and community control, Facebook more closely resembles an autocratic than a democratic regime.
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She sees the artwork as an expression of the wounds from three decades of autocratic rule under Bashir.
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Their constant display of autocratic arrogance has resulted in federal courts repeatedly striking down and staying unconstitutional rules.
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The West regards this as a smokescreen for Russia's support for the autocratic regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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Indeed, in his eight years of presidency he became increasingly autocratic and ignored some laws passed by Congress.
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The sentiment is a legacy of Mr Obama's presidency, much reviled in the palaces of the autocratic Gulf.
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We now know assorted power brokers, shady international businessmen and autocratic regimes eagerly played along with the ruse.
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The MSNBC host has argued Trump possesses autocratic characteristics on the program on multiple occasions in the past.
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"Autocratic or semi-democratic regimes tend to be more brittle, making them less valuable strategic partners," stated Kurlantzick.
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Most would-be autocratic leaders today exploit existing tensions within complex societies in order to solidify their support.
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A population's path from extreme tight to extreme loose and back again exemplifies what I call autocratic recidivism.
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Germany is suddenly dependent on autocratic Turkey and the good will of the rest of the European Union.
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He also reiterated the HDP's opposition to an executive presidency, saying it would make the government more autocratic.
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Autocratic regimes could readily exploit the ways in which A.I.s are beginning to jar our sense of reality.
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He has praised Hungary's autocratic, anti-immigrant Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and invited him to the White House.
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The Arab Spring nations aren't the only countries with brittle autocratic governments that could suddenly and catastrophically collapse.
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"One would expect this level of disregard for an autocratic country without the First Amendment," Ms. Tarquinio said.
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By Sunday, the demonstrations had become a catchall protest against many aspects of Mr. Orban's increasingly autocratic governance.
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A unique theological emphasis on human agency makes many Latter-day Saints nervous about Mr. Trump's autocratic instincts.
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Some scholars say the upheaval is a warning of the risks of embracing such autocratic allies too closely.
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At a time when many Southeast Asian countries have become autocratic, Indonesia remains one of the most democratic.
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A win for the quick-tempered Mr. Prabowo, however, could spell the return of a more autocratic government.
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White House Memo WASHINGTON — He accepts less-than-credible denials from autocratic heads of state about nefarious acts.
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Tens of thousands gathered in Harare over the weekend to rally for an end to his autocratic rule.
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American presidents typically use such visits to persuade inaccessible, often autocratic, foreign leaders to face the news media.
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His tweeted demand of "Jail!" for former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin evoked images of autocratic leaders elsewhere.
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The ouster of autocratic President Blaise Compaoré in 2014 helped make Burkina Faso fertile ground for extremist groups.
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Indeed, the typical political prediction for 2020 includes further entrenchment of autocratic governments, from Sri Lanka to Bolivia.
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Autocratic governments, in contrast, need to change our opinion about what violates norms and constitutes crime and corruption.
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Tight regulation and censorship under autocratic former President Suharto left Indonesia's cinema industry stunted - but ripe with potential.
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As our news cycle continues to center on an increasingly autocratic US administration, their fights cannot be ignored.
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Putin's critics say that he has become increasingly autocratic and that there is no political plurality in Russia.
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While an autocratic approach can be efficient in the short term, it typically leads to pushback and resistance.
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Viktor Orban, the autocratic prime minister of Hungary, wants to give passports to ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia.
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Critics accuse his administration of being increasingly autocratic, but the president declared on Monday that his government "respects democracy".
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The San Francisco raid was a stunning intrusion on press freedom, similar to what we see in autocratic regimes.
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If the coup fails, Erdogan's "hand will be strengthened and we'll see more of his autocratic agenda," Tol said.
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Observers say the move would be appeasing autocratic leaders who view the group as a threat to their power.
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Critics of Erdogan fear the proposed new powers, including freedoms to govern by executive orders, would entrench autocratic trends.
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Moscow sees an opportunity to challenge the weakened European narrative in support of the growing autocratic rule in Macedonia.
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In the protests of the late 1980s, the targets were usually autocratic governments that allowed at best sham elections.
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Protests in Hong Kong and Russia show the limits of what many see in the West as autocratic power.
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Islamists including the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood were for decades the backbone of opposition to autocratic rule in Egypt.
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Military units loyal to Yemen's deposed autocratic leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Mr. Hadi's predecessor, are fighting alongside the Houthis.
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They've run their teams, for better or worse, in the same autocratic, hidebound fashion that they ran those companies.
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During his three decades in the industry, Sorrell developed a reputation for strong opinions and an autocratic management style.
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While the Republic was already in decline well before then, the fateful move hastened Rome's transition to autocratic rule.
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Initially perceived as tough and no-nonsense, by her second term she was increasingly seen as inflexible and autocratic.
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U.S. involvement in Middle Eastern wars, especially Syria's, has kept the United States needlessly entangled with Erdogan's autocratic government.
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Some autocratic leaders continue to use traditional strong-arm tactics, like declaring states of emergency, to enable further repression.
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The opposition had seen the recall referendum as its only legal path to challenge Mr. Maduro's increasingly autocratic rule.
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Before Erdoğan inched toward more autocratic rule, democratic reforms and economic growth defined his early years as prime minister.
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And a lot of countries are noticing that the tide, led by China, is going toward the autocratic path.
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If the Democratic Party is turning into a monarchy, how can it fight the autocratic tendencies in Mr. Trump?
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The European Union has even threatened to cut aid to Hungary and Poland over their drift toward autocratic rule.
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Mubarak had ensured, over the decades of his autocratic rule, that basic institutions were weak or missing in Egypt.
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Sorrento is an autocratic bean counter, a would-be master of the universe who doesn't even like video games.
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With growing support from autocratic forces in Europe, he must not be emboldened to think he will be unchecked.
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But as Newt Gingrich learned the hard way two decades ago, an autocratic speaker is a short-lived one.
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In Southeast Asia, where autocratic rule is on the rise, Indonesia has remained one of the region's strongest democracies.
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But here's the funny thing: While his instincts are clearly autocratic, the Constitution doesn't set him above the law.
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Across the world, autocratic leaders are engaging in increasingly brazen behavior — rigging votes, muzzling the press and persecuting opponents.
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The real reason it's been labeled a terrorist group is that autocratic regimes see it as a populist threat.
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Hoover's autocratic leadership is part of the reason a 10-year term limit was implemented for future F.B.I. directors.
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During the Arab Spring, he joined protests, but now an autocratic regime rules while zealots seethe in the slums.
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Iran is an Islamist Shia theocratic state whereas Turkey is Sunni albeit under increasingly autocratic and de-secularized rule.
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So hail the IFC Center for the series Autocratic for the People: An Unpresidented Series of Star-Spangled Satires.
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Taiwan elections are always watched closely by the island's autocratic neighbor China, which claims Taiwan as a Chinese province.
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With these phrases, he has not just inspired autocratic rulers around the world, he has also borrowed from them.
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As the war dragged on, people around Afewerki began describing him as severe and brutish, given to autocratic tendencies.
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Turkey's autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, aims to crush Syria's Kurds, who have been ditched by President Donald Trump.
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While the Chinese autocratic system can stand a host of challenges, underpinnings of a democratic system are more fragile.
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Many of the earlier women's pathways were eased because their husbands or fathers were autocratic or charismatic leaders first.
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This autocratic pull has combined with a weakening push from democracies to follow even the pretense of democratic norms.
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This has been its guiding advantage over decades, where autocratic nations and their economies have failed to keep up.
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The company was publicly held, but Mr. Ford remained autocratic, deciding the fates of executives who came and went.
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The company was publicly held, but Mr. Ford remained autocratic, deciding the fates of executives who came and went.
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Accordingly, they are subconsciously drawn to resolute, stubborn, or perhaps even autocratic leadership styles, because those styles signal principled conviction.
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" Trump has routinely denigrated the press with calls of "fake news" and the even more autocratic "enemy of the people.
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The question now is: What governs the NBA -- its hard-won values or the financial pressure of an autocratic regime?
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Democratic centralism still prevails—exemplified by the party's monopoly on power, Xi Jinping's autocratic rule and the suppression of dissent.
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"It's about pushing back against authoritarian and autocratic moves," says Norm Ornstein, a congressional expert at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Even Mr Trump may not be keen to help his autocratic allies put down dissent in the name of defence.
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The autocratic former prime minister may have charm but he lacks the Machiavellian finesse needed to handle such a situation.
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Autocratic regimes that frown on civil society are happy for their citizens to take up the cause of food waste.
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The party likes to argue that its autocratic system helps it carry out mega-projects taking several generations to complete.
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More than 15 years after the collapse of his decade of autocratic rule, Alberto Fujimori continues to divide his country.
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As for Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus, they are to varying degrees autocratic and are closely knit into Russia's security infrastructure.
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Better economic policies ensued in both Argentina and Brazil, though not in Venezuela, where the autocratic government squashed the legislature.
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Military and broader tensions with an increasingly autocratic and self-confident Russia and China are rising almost by the week.
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In November, Burkina Faso elected a new president after nearly three decades of autocratic rule followed by a civil uprising.
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There's a difference between being attractive/presentable and being sort of like autocratic about what your hair must look like.
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Burkina Faso elected a new president in November after nearly three decades of autocratic rule followed by a civil uprising.
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Egypt and the island kingdom of Bahrain are now yet more autocratic, in some ways, than when the protests began.
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Sanders was particularly critical of U.S. Cold War-era interventions against autocratic and leftist regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
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Kidnapping is rife across Libya, which has been in turmoil since an uprising unseated autocratic leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
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Not only is it the first country to stage the summer or winter games that is neither rich nor autocratic.
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As with previous challenges to his rule, the coup attempt has left Mr Erdogan stronger, or at least more autocratic.
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The academy is not like the Catholic Church or an autocratic state, which has precious little room for contested ideas.
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If the historical tide prevails, and Cuba continues moving inexorably toward its past, another century of autocratic rule awaits us.
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The autocratic leaders of Gambia and Burundi fear not a resurgence of colonialism but being held accountable for their abuses.
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Ultimately, Monday's developments pose another test for America's institutions, which have so far largely kept Trump's autocratic instincts in check.
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Scholars say countries across the globe are experiencing a rise in autocratic rule, with declines in democratic ideals and practice.
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Burkina Faso elected a new president in November after nearly three decades of autocratic rule followed by a civil uprising.
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Tunisia dropped into a deep economic slump following the overthrow in 2011 of autocratic leader Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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In autocratic societies that favor direct persecution for artists that do not conform, imprisonment tends to be a favored tactic.
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Flynn could also work to reshape US policy towards Turkey and its increasingly autocratic and Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Maduro has been sanctioned by the United States and is criticized by governments from France to Canada as increasingly autocratic.
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The Bangladesh he helped create was democratic and secular, in sharp contrast to the brutal, autocratic system run by Pakistan.
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The impeachment outcome and the Roger Stone scandal tell us that the process of creating autocratic legalism is already underway.
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While the Chinese people have pushed for a somewhat more open society, the Chinese government is becoming even more autocratic.
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Respect for the office must begin with Trump, who's sullied it with mendacity, bigotry and autocratic contempt for the Constitution.
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A liberal, he came to resent British support for the autocratic Egyptian monarchy and resigned his cabinet post in protest.
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But a shift had occurred; the autocratic leader had been replaced by a more democratic government led by Lenin Moreno.
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This is the hallmark of the Trump administration's approach to violations of human rights, particularly when committed by autocratic friends.
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Mr. Kagame at first won international praise for bringing stability to Rwanda, but he was later seen as increasingly autocratic.
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Mr. Abiy has cast himself as a transformational figure, promising peaceful coexistence and an end to the government's autocratic ways.
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His geopolitical idols trend toward the autocratic — Kim Jong-un, Rodrigo Duterte, Mohammed bin Salman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin.
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The People's Republic ofChina has never governed Taiwan, whose people have shown little interest in being ruled by autocratic Beijing.
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No election will produce wholesale change in a top-heavy, autocratic regime that has invested everything in its own survival.
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His autocratic rule was finally brought to an end by a military takeover of power and impeachment proceedings in Parliament.
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Years of corrupt, incompetent and autocratic rule have left Venezuelans hungry and children dying for want of basic medical care.
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This fits with Trump's evident warmth toward several autocratic leaders who are undermining democracy and human rights in their countries.
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Now Mr. Orban has the power to make constitutional changes many fear will further transform Hungary into an autocratic state.
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But rulers have used Confucianism, today no less than a thousand years ago, to support social hierarchy and autocratic rule.
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Every other nation — even the autocratic Tsarist Russia and the Empire of Brazil — managed to abolish slavery without a war.
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The liberal millennium was upon us as the year 2000 dawned; fifteen years later, the autocratic apocalypse is at hand.
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But more concerning, our evidence shows that, even after accounting for wealth, border fortification is associated with more autocratic regimes.
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Nations large and small, some with stable governments, some with shaky or autocratic regimes, want to join the nuclear club.
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Unfortunately, in some cases, these surveillance tools have ended up in the hands of autocratic governments with more sinister aims.
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In Chechnya, where the Egypt team is training, the autocratic leader Ramzan A. Kadyrov made Mr. Salah an honorary citizen.
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Thus far, the Muddle Along Rule has saved Maduro: This guideline explains that countries and autocratic leaders only very rarely implode.
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McConnell, senators unite behind investigation into Russian hacking It's one thing to negotiate with an autocratic leader over an oil contract.
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But advanced Western economies face another pressure point — artificial intelligence, which is proving to be a new advantage to autocratic government.
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We lock up more people than any other country in the world, including ones with larger populations and more autocratic regimes.
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Tunisia has dropped into a deep economic slump since its autocratic leader, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, was overthrown in 22011.
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The rise of Google and tech rival Facebook was welcomed as a gift to democracy and free speech against autocratic governments.
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Seen from Asia, America is an unhappy, distracted democracy locked in competition with a confident, single-minded autocratic regime in China.
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China is more willing to propose its own economic rise and autocratic government as a model for other countries to follow.
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Depending on your slant, this could either be a big step forward for driverless cars, or an autocratic regime run wild.
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In a taped memo, Kennedy blames himself for approving the military coup that killed South Vietnam's autocratic president, Ngo Dinh Diem.
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UNTIL THIS week, Turks who could not stomach the autocratic rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan had one thing to cling to.
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America has bound itself more tightly to autocratic Arab regimes, such as Saudi Arabia, that have themselves fomented instability and radicalism.
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Two weeks had passed since the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, had left the country amid enormous protests against his autocratic rule.
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Mr Bolsonaro's probable election will pose a new challenge: ensuring that a president with autocratic impulses does not subvert Brazil's democracy.
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The head of campaign group Amnesty International said the pledge was outrageous and a gift to autocratic leaders around the world.
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These ultras were opposed to his autocratic management of the club, and disagreed with many of his decisions regarding the team.
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UNINDENTIFIED MALE: He&aposs got an autocratic kind of mood, the kind of thing you would see in a banana republic.
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Once it were introduced, Facebook would likely face pressure from other autocratic regimes to enable its use in their own countries.
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Many of the autocratic nations in the region, including Saudi Arabia, have severe restrictions on women's rights and participation in society.
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Unlike the volcanic and autocratic Gonzalez, Willard has built relationships, withstood criticism, and hasn't hesitated to add or stick by players.
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When he received that email, he was part of a group of activists calling for democratic reforms in the autocratic country.
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An agent of an autocratic government might be looking to persecute journalists or human rights workers who use iPhones to communicate.
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Further, Trump's presidency shows that corporate oligarchies and autocratic politics go hand-in-hand in America no less than in Russia.
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Recent revelations in India show that the threat from the company's spyware to activists and journalists isn't limited to autocratic regimes.
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Many countries are reverting to autocratic rule in an effort to fight the global slowdown, none more self-destructively than China.
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Our people will continue to draw strength from their freedom and ingenuity, a strength of which our autocratic adversaries deprive themselves.
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And then there's Turkey's autocratic Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose war of words against Germany has relations at an all-time low.
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Trump has often boasted about his good relationship with Erdogan, an autocratic ruler widely considered to be an enemy to democracy.
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The open question is whether staff shake-ups will now give Trump a White House more amenable to his autocratic tendencies.
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But three years ago, the two men had a bitter falling out as Mr. Gulen opposed the leader's increasingly autocratic tendencies.
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" "The United States cannot, and must not, stand idly by while Enes and his family are subject to this autocratic torment.
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To his supporters, Yang Hengjun is a dedicated democracy activist who believed that China's autocratic system would, with time, necessarily liberalize.
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Political winds -- now aided by an increase in autocratic-style leaders -- have been shifting and shaping discourse all over the planet.
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As Mr. Castro consolidated power, eliminated his enemies and grew increasingly autocratic, the Cuban people referred to him simply as Fidel.
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No wonder, after 85033 years under the autocratic Gadhafi, they trust neither the military solution nor the politicians backed by militias.
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Fortunately, in our country, unlike in many autocratic countries, we have the freedom to explore and make changes in that system.
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These companies' business practices and willingness to do business with autocratic regimes put innocent victims targeted by those regimes in danger.
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In practice, innocent people will pay the price for these companies' incompetence and their willingness to do business with autocratic regimes.
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One example of corrupt leaders becoming tournament benefactors is Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen republic's autocratic leader and an ally of Putin.
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Will it follow the example of some of its African neighbors, where liberation parties became autocratic and corrupt single-party governments?
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Salah Abdelkhalig, initially opposed the protesters who were calling for an end to the autocratic leadership of President Omar al-Bashir.
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Though United States Forces Korea was focused on defending against the Communist North, it backed successive autocratic regimes in the South.
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Mr. Trump should show Latin Americans that Washington wants to do more than just ramp up pressure on leftist autocratic governments.
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Even where the army did side with protesters, as in Egypt, it later turned on them and violently restored autocratic rule.
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"He is aggressive, demanding, autocratic, egocentric and, under the right circumstances, very good at his job," Mr. Bernheimer allowed in 20103.
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Pinochet had established a constitutional framework that allowed for democracy in 1981, but he continued his autocratic rule throughout the '80s.
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It's because these are autocratic regimes that don't believe in democracy and they'd like to see Americans at each other's throat.
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How fitting that the president chose as his first overseas port of call an autocratic sword-brandishing monarchy that demeans women.
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Our reporter in Turkey talks about his extensive travel around the country, and how its autocratic president is extending his power.
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From Egypt to Turkey to the Philippines, Trump has warmly embraced autocratic leaders and gone silent on their deeply repressive actions.
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Both the European Union and the United States have imposed economic sanctions on Caracas over their opposition to its autocratic government.
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Diplomacy is a practical necessity for peace, and it can also help to liberalize and gradually bring normalcy to autocratic regimes.
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It is leaders of autocratic countries, not democracies, who make a point of telling journalists how they should do their job.
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Mr. Netanyahu is the toast of the new wave of right-wing, populist and autocrat-like (if not outright autocratic) leaders.
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Mr. Mahathir was known for his autocratic tendencies, advocacy of Asian exceptionalism and occasional anti-Semitic jibes that prompted international condemnation.
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Mr. Sanders denounced Russia, calling President Vladimir Putin an "autocratic thug" and warning Moscow to stay out of the election. 21957.
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This state of emergency, due to be approved by the rubber-stamp Parliament on Tuesday, will probably entrench his autocratic tendencies.
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"Putin was in the army," said Vlad, a Russian Army veteran who finds that reason enough to trust Russia's autocratic president.
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The case of North Korea suggests that even in the absence of nationalistic fervor, autocratic regimes can maintain control through repression.
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Tensions in Venezuela have boiled over in recent months, with widespread protests against the increasingly autocratic government of President Nicolas Maduro.
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Especially as democracies decline in prestige and relative power, their unwillingness to defend democratic standards opens the doors to autocratic ascendancy.
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After all, the Pilgrims were refugees fleeing persecution by the English monarchy, which at the time was still an autocratic regime.
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The unpopular, yet highly autocratic Venezuelan regime has made all the wrong policy choices for the sake of its own people.
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Both the United States and the European Union have imposed economic sanctions on Venezuela over their opposition to its autocratic government.
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But he has bought into the autocratic delusion that Trump equals America, that national interest and presidential prerogative are inextricably intertwined.
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As in this case with Hungary, Mr. Netanyahu is increasingly aligning Israel with illiberal, autocratic states like Russia, Turkey and Egypt.
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And the Chinese being Chinese, and being very autocratic, can actually do that in a way that no other country can.
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The commission is seen by many Congolese as being close to Mr. Kabila, whose autocratic rule has spanned nearly two decades.
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Although President Trump operates in a different political environment, his behavior, particularly since the November midterm elections, betrays similar autocratic instincts.
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NATO countries should do whatever they can to mitigate Mr. Erdogan's autocratic tendencies while encouraging the proponents of democracy in Turkey.
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Trump for months has been dogged by claims that he is too sympathetic to Russia and the nation's autocratic leader Vladimir Putin.
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He is not Russell Westbrook or James Harden, autocratic focal points whose team's entire offense hinges on how they read the defense.
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Instead of looking to France or Germany for inspiration, Mr. Orban has talked fondly of the autocratic systems of Turkey and Russia.
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A former amateur footballer named Viktor Orban, who is now Hungary's autocratic prime minister, has splurged on stadiums that are rarely filled.
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The north-east was a puppet state of Japan in 1932-45 and endured autocratic planning for a generation longer than elsewhere.
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Autocratic regimes in Africa shut down the internet to repress free speech and freedom of association during uprisings that challenge their leadership.
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That will end nearly 60 years of autocratic rule by him and his elder brother, Fidel, who led Cuba's revolution in 1959.
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During that time, uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt had ousted longtime autocratic rulers, touching off protests in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria.
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The country has dropped into a deep economic slump following the overthrow in 2011 of autocratic leader Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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First came Reza Shah, Iran's autocratic ruler in the 1930s, who adopted the secular approach of his Turkish counterpart, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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The EU is harbouring not an illiberal democracy, but a semi-autocratic kleptocracy in which loyalty offers the quickest route to riches.
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However, some French voters may be put off by Le Pen's association with a leader widely seen in the West as autocratic.
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Unfortunately, long experience with sanctions shows that trade and financial tools are not effective reform measures when directed at large autocratic nations.
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I mean, so, I think you have an autocratic regime and an individual who's (done) an extraordinarily effective job at consolidating power.
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Parliamentary governments can also be extremely autocratic and unjust to those who may disagree with the policies of the party in power.
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A vocal minority accuse him of an autocratic leadership style and say he has dragged the party too far to the right.
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Moving beyond the democratic-autocratic binary, political scientists have resorted to a new category of "competitive authoritarianism" to capture these hybrid cases.
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With their own more ruthless traditions, autocratic states like Russia, China and Iran - and their leaders in particular – are scarcely less paranoid.
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I prefer to call what Trump is engaged in "autocratic presidentialism," meaning I'm the one who lays down the rule of law.
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When Donald Tump ran for president, and in the weeks after winning the election, his critics justifiably worried about his autocratic tendencies.
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It marks another milestone in Taiwan's development as one of the region's more liberal societies, in contrast with China's strongly autocratic government.
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In Serbia's capital Belgrade, meanwhile, thousands marched in protest at what they see as the increasingly autocratic rule of President Aleksandar Vucic.
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Columbus's autocratic and brutal governance of Hispaniola was so controversial that he was recalled to Spain under arrest just eight years later.
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These days he's dealing with administrative matters in Germany, a task far removed from the fear of reckoning with an autocratic regime.
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For all of his bluster and tough talk about ISIS, Trump is remarkably sanguine about Russia and its autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin.
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In fact, some experts have explicitly linked Russia's autocratic political tendencies to long-standing direct and indirect suppression of its scientific capital.
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Many of Trump's supporters now identify more with Putin's autocratic vision for Russia than with the Republican or Democratic platforms for America.
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The second is a return to authoritarianism, accompanied by the use of deadly violence by security forces against those protesting autocratic rulers.
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That infuriated the Saudis and Emiratis, who — though Sunni, like the Brotherhood — consider the group a threat to their own autocratic model.
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Poland's increasingly autocratic government has alienated its international allies by curbing the independence of the courts and restricting speech about the Holocaust.
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Belarus's autocratic leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, has other ideas, and is trying to build a separate identity for Belarusians, including resurrecting their language.
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Salah Abdelkhalig, initially opposed the protesters who were calling for an end to the autocratic leadership of President Hassan Omar al-Bashir.
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Mr. Deggin and other agents said Turkey's increasingly autocratic government does not seem to have been a concern for many foreign buyers.
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You have an entirely unqualified president with autocratic instincts and dangerous advisers, who is quite possibly compromised by a malign foreign interest.
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A restless defender of democratic values, Teodoro Petkoff never stopped criticizing Hugo Chávez's autocratic tendencies and never gave up on his country.
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It was also a chance to cover one more significant story about the loss of free expression in an increasingly autocratic country.
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It was governed as a moderate Islamic nation for three decades under the autocratic rule of the former president, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
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And the Supreme Court's conservative majority, manufactured by an earlier act of hardball, may uphold the constitutionality of the president's autocratic behavior.
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And, still, he speaks not as someone who would reinforce America's democratic values but as someone who would hold autocratic absolute power.
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This Muslim supremacist attitude, shared sometimes even by secular yet autocratic governments in the Middle East, lies beneath many acts of persecution.
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But once in office, Trump would also have to balance the objections of allies like Turkey and Erdogan, its increasingly autocratic president.
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"The danger I believe of Donald Trump is he is autocratic in style, " said Sanford, who's been a frequent critic of Trump.
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Either a stern judicial reprimand or a congressional censure or both might be necessary to disabuse Mr. Trump of his autocratic tendencies.
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Critics warn in particular that well-meaning efforts in Europe could provide a template for censorship of political opponents in autocratic countries.
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But let's sum it up nonetheless: Johnson supporters who don't want a gilded, autocratic sociopath to become leader of the free world.
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The more countries that install China's centralized surveillance technology, the more that China's very own autocratic use of it may be normalized.
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Trump -- who has autocratic tendencies -- has learned how to weaponize the values of liberal democracy, like free speech, to undermine liberal democracy.
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India's 2019 vote was the world's biggest exercise in democracy, yet it culminated with the re-election of an increasingly autocratic leader.
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Moreover, Robert Mugabe's fall in Zimbabwe was good news, although there is no guarantee the country will escape from his autocratic regime.
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Trump praised Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro -- a leader with autocratic tendencies in his own image -- of buying into his "fake news" narrative.
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But that project has run headlong into the growing power of autocratic and nationalist right-wing movements across Europe, particularly in Hungary.
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He had a number of run-ins with Peter Stuyvesant, the peg-legged, autocratic governor of New Amsterdam, who abhorred religious liberty.
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In an atmosphere of domestic crisis, many Americans found their idealism renewed by George Kennan's campaign to liberate Russia from autocratic rule.
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" Meanwhile, political party Pirate Party UK, wrote a blog post titled "Theresa May uses London Bridge attack to further her autocratic agenda.
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News analysis: President Trump, who has aligned himself with autocratic leaders around the world, has drawn a red line with Mr. Maduro.
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Republicans, I know Rwanda — with its poverty, illiteracy and autocratic government — is not in the same peer group as the United States.
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When Mr. Hernández took office, Washington appeared willing to overlook his more autocratic actions in the hope that he would restore stability.
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Over the weekend, Brazil's Foreign Ministry had said that the reported expulsion of Ambassador Pereira underscored the "autocratic nature" of Venezuela's government.
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On Tuesday, the autocratic president appointed Defense Minister Padrino Lopez to a newly created role that could best be described as co-president.
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The administration says it wants Maduro's increasingly autocratic regime to release roughly 340 political prisoners and become more democratic — or perhaps even fall.
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There are undoubtedly real examples of autocratic rulers who are also savvy, highly skilled technocrats who excel at devising and implementing public policy.
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Thus ended more than two decades of autocratic rule started when the former army captain came to power in a coup in 1994.
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Mr Putin is interfering in the western Balkans, as is Mr Erdogan, who is also taking Turkey in an ever more autocratic direction.
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He could seek a grand bargain, for example by pardoning Ms Fujimori's father, Alberto, an autocratic former president jailed for abuses of power.
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Autocratic regimes such as China and Russia can ruthlessly drill track-and-field athletes—indeed, the Olympic games sometimes resemble an authoritarian pageant.
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In an essay last year, Carlson, the World Congress founder, scoffed at fears about Orbán's autocratic rule and the eclipse of Enlightenment values.
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Wealthy members of the silent and baby boomer generations tend to take an autocratic approach to their financial decision making, Merrill's report found.
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The contrast between WikiLeaks's attacks on American spy agencies and its collaboration with their autocratic rivals speaks volumes about Mr Assange's real motives.
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The decision Mozilla makes will affect the internet experience and security of some of the 18 million people living in the autocratic country.
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"The atrocities in any autocratic country are dictated by the rule of law," he told the audience at Abu Dhabi's St. Regis hotel.
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Thus a democratizing Russia is assumed to be automatically pro-Western, while an autocratic one is assumed to be inherently against the West.
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Most importantly, the president needs to acknowledge that China has an autocratic leader who will only engage with us when it benefits him.
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There is growing resistance around the world to autocratic leaders, according to an annual assessment of global rights conducted by Human Rights Watch.
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Demonstrations and protests in 22013 involving hundreds of thousands of people challenged the grip on power of autocratic rulers across the Arab world.
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Beyond those benefits, North Korea is understood to want guarantees about the future of its autocratic regime and the security of its borders.
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They should consider the region's constellation of autocratic rulers who suffocate dissent and any alternative vision of political, economic, religious, and social life.
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Clinton's speech, she fitted her opponent with an absurd crown to cast him as her show's erratic, vain and autocratic King George. Mrs.
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Mr. Erdogan, an Islamist who has dominated politics for more than a decade, has also alienated many Turks with his increasingly autocratic behavior.
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The departure of the autocratic president, who held the position for 30 years, sparked widespread celebrations in the country, according to media reports.
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Charles Murray, a conservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said Mr. Trump's autocratic tendencies placed him well outside the conservative intellectual mainstream.
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American leadership of a trans-Atlantic alliance is its greatest competitive advantage over rival powers, especially an autocratic Russia and a strengthening China.
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Autocratic rule — also known as authoritarianism — is when one leader or political party exercises complete power to govern a country and its people.
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Beyond those benefits, North Korea was understood to want guarantees about the future of its autocratic regime and the security of its borders.
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Yemen's civil war began in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring protests that toppled the country's longtime autocratic president, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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That's how economic regulation works in many autocratic states, and it serves to entrench the autocrat in power and to impoverish their populations.
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But across North Africa, the reverberations are coursing through the region once again, shaking autocratic governments and posing new questions about the future.
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Hasina, 71, is the first leader in Bangladesh's history to win three consecutive terms, but she has increasingly been accused of autocratic behavior.
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Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, is a master of this autocratic approach, as I saw during my recent trip to Hungary.
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As the winds of war swept across Europe, Portugal's autocratic prime minister, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, was determined to maintain a strict neutrality.
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An Indian Ocean nation known for its luxury tourist resorts, Maldives became a multiparty democracy 10 years ago after decades of autocratic rule.
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PERAI, Malaysia — Mahathir Mohamad, who led Malaysia for decades with dagger-sharp rhetoric and increasingly autocratic ways, is 22003 and in frail health.
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NSO's client list included numerous autocratic states that researchers say used the tools to spy on journalists, dissidents and members of civil society.
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This move is yet another rebuke to the European Union, and the rights it guarantees all citizens, from the increasingly autocratic Mr. Orban.
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But, thousands of protesters, mainly students, started rallying throughout the country against Vucic's victory and his rule they see as fraudulent and autocratic.
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Mr. Rockefeller was also assailed for befriending autocratic foreign leaders in an effort to establish and expand his bank's presence in their countries.
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As our news cycle continues to center on an increasingly autocratic US administration and worldviews become more insular, their fights cannot be ignored.
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Trump is already giving us a curtain raiser on his intent, tilting toward a pass for his autocratic ally in the Middle East.
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"Under Viktor Orban's autocratic rule, no independent institutions are tolerated," said Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of international affairs and sociology at Princeton.
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Yet he governed in a polarizing and autocratic manner, generating fierce opposition from the middle class, the wealthy and sectors of the military.
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And as the commander in chief insulted allies while embracing autocratic thugs, Republicans who spent a decade supporting wars of choice remained quiet.
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Residents in the capital and aid workers on the ground say Burundi's slow, violent slide into autocratic rule is all but inevitable now.
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That freedom is conferred by democracy; it's only in autocratic states that artists are expected to produce one sort of art or another.
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Erdoğan is, after all, an autocratic ruler and no friend of journalists, but we will wait and see where Lohan is going with this.
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And he is the first to offer effusive praise of an autocratic ruler (whose critics frequently turn up dead) by smearing his own country.
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Ballmer was more of a top-down, autocratic leader, whereas Nadella has embraced partnerships and has taken a more open approach to Microsoft's business.
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That should give hope to millions who are watching autocratic forces steadily undercut systems of democracy and rule of law in their own countries.
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Vucic won a landslide election victory, but thousands of protesters, mainly students, started rallying throughout the country against his rule, which they consider autocratic.
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It has held free elections and in 2014 approved a constitution guaranteeing fundamental rights in contrast to autocratic systems and turmoil elsewhere in region.
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He said nothing about Mr Erdogan's increasingly autocratic rule, or about the crackdown that is hollowing out the rule of law in his country.
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The first period lasts for three years and is characterized by indifference of the masses to political matters and autocratic rule by a minority.
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Authorities famously cut internet access in the midst of the 2011 revolution that toppled 30 years of autocratic rule under former president Hosni Mubarak.
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These autocratic extremes would be less worrying were not elections across the region showing that there are clear signs of disenchantment with democracy elsewhere.
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It might therefore be said that no more investigation of his autocratic government is needed in order to reach a judgment on its acceptability.
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Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus' autocratic president, has beaten back Russian demands for a base for years, but American tanks next door could force his hand.
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But Mr Yameen will probably face growing opposition, and resort to more autocratic measures, to remain in control until the presidential election next November.
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The president has a history of flattering autocratic leaders whom he sees as embodying unilateral strength — including Kim and, most notoriously, Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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This is not the first time that Trump has taken the word of an autocratic leader over the conclusions of his own intelligence services.
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To date, the UNHRC has adopted over 22019 resolutions condemning Israel and only seven condemning human rights violations by the autocratic theocracy in Iran.
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It threatens to make the country too reliant on the whims of autocratic political and business leaders in Beijing, Moscow, Dubai and the like.
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Net foreign aid to Turkey, an increasingly autocratic country that is not poor, rose more than tenfold between 2004 and 2014, to $3.4 billion.
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Let's show President Erdogan how a real democracy works and protect the individuals who are lawfully protesting the Turkish dictator and his autocratic regime.
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Because they were made before the meeting with a fickle, autocratic dictator with a disdain for the West that literally goes back generations. Yeah.
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Museveni has been in power since 1986, after helping to topple dictator Idi Amin, and has shown an increasingly autocratic bent in recent years.
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That is the grand bargain we struck when we declared ourselves a free people, and threw off the autocratic rule of the England's monarchy.
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The CIA takes a hands-off approach to the UAE, forgoing the collection of "human intelligence" about the Gulf country and its autocratic leaders.
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The state has pursued a warm relationship with Viktor Orbán, whose autocratic rule of Hungary has dismayed European counterparts since his installation in 2010.
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Democrats have expressed concerns that Trump is politicizing the holiday and that his use of military equipment will mirror parades held in autocratic regimes.
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He recently expressed admiration for Vladimir V. Putin, Russia's autocratic president, and Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator, whom he praised as tough on terrorism.
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Overseas, the President has ripped apart international treaties, engaged in provocative behavior with his adversaries and cozied up to autocratic regimes such as Russia.
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He rose to prominence as a Marxist firebrand lecturer who challenged the autocratic rule of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Ivory Coast's first post-independence president.
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Navalny had called for demonstrations in more than 277 towns and cities across Russia against what he says is Putin's autocratic, tsar-like rule.
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He had faced 16 weeks of demonstrations sparked by rising food costs, high unemployment and increasing repression during his three decades of autocratic rule.
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At the hearing in Washington, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee focused on the relationship between Tillerson and Russia's autocratic leader Vladimir Putin.
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Maduro's regime has become increasingly autocratic amid growing public discontent over a crippling economic crisis that has resulted in massive food shortages and hyperinflation.
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Autocratic countries can survive the absence of rule of law if they sit on a wealth of oil or gas (Saudi Arabia, for example).
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An autocratic, nativist, xenophobic, nationalist reaction is now in full swing on both sides of the Atlantic — as the election in Austria demonstrates again.
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Mr. Putin's autocratic tendencies have become self-serving, reinforcing his control of the political and economic levers of power, but they have also evolved.
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The current president possesses "what you might think of as autocratic tendencies," Sheri Berman, a professor at Barnard College, told me earlier this year.
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Trump "has shown himself," Levitsky continued, to be a more openly autocratic figure than any of the other disjunctive president I am aware of.
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Hearing these exchanges between an imperious, autocratic ruler and a righteous, slightly pompous adviser delivered in blunt English made Monteverdi's characters seem eerily contemporary.
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Each side is vying to take control, promising to undo the legacy of three decades of misrule under the autocratic leader, Mr. al-Bashir.
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President Joseph Kabila was running the nation in autocratic fashion, overseeing a perpetual state of regional and civil war, just as he is today.
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Yes, we should focus on Trump's breaking of custom and convention, his racism and his reactiveness, his Barack Obama obsession and his autocratic impulses.
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He is the author of a recent Lowy Institute analysis, "The Path of Least Resilience: Autocratic rule and external powers in the Middle East."
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President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election by a landslide by positioning Taiwan as an independent country defending its democratic system against autocratic China.
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After 2000 a new generation of autocratic market darlings arose, led by President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
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Later, investors would turn on Russia and Turkey, not because their leaders grew more troublesomely autocratic but because they stopped pushing tough economic reforms.
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The young democracy, which threw off autocratic rule in a 2011 uprising, held two separate elections for parliament and president in September and October.
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In too many countries, autocratic governments are able to use cronies or proxies to control major news outlets and manipulate the flow of information.
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Russia is steadily expanding its military influence across Africa by increasing arms sales, security agreements and training programs for unstable countries or autocratic leaders.
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If CEOs are the new politicians, many of them don't seem to have thought carefully about foreign policy — particularly about working with autocratic regimes.
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Autocratic turn In mid-21, Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail informed police that investigators had enough information to prepare a charge sheet against Najib.
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Its Freedom in the World report warns that world's nations, as a whole, are becoming more autocratic, more dictatorial, less open and more repressive.
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The autocratic behavior of male elders—ordering drinks, dictating votes, wielding virtually all power—is even more striking in the light of their scarcity.
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Its focus on development and trade above all else has made it an attractive partner to countries -- both autocratic and not -- throughout the world.
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That day marked the 34-year anniversary of the resignation of autocratic president Jaafar al-Nimeiri; activists were hoping that history would repeat itself.
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The President's comments were also the latest instance in which he has accepted the denial of an autocratic leader like Kim at face value.
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Trump has already thinned the ranks of high-profile Republican voices willing to challenge him on his lack of results and impulsive, autocratic behavior.
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He singled out Saudi Arabia as a key ally, specifically piling praise on its autocratic rulers, King Salman and his son Mohammed Bin Salman.
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Yet Sudan also has great strengths, including a robust, well-educated civil society that is fed up with autocratic ideologues and yearns for freedom.
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It is a clue as well of the skillful exploitation of nationalist impulses by Hungary's leader, Viktor Orban, to cement his increasingly autocratic rule.
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That opposition — toxic hate and toxic idealism — is paralleled in the background, in the fictional, quasi-autocratic presidencies of Richard Nixon and Robert Redford.
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The country was polarized between his supporters and those who complained about his Islamist and autocratic tendencies — to many, he was establishing a dictatorship.
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For Trump to express his desire for a friendly, personal relationship with the brutal and autocratic ruler of a hostile foreign country was odd.
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Mr. Assange has made little secret about his skepticism toward Western democracy and his willingness to work with autocratic governments like Vladimir V. Putin's Russia.
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But they were also concerned about the principle that foreign countries should gang up on an autocratic country and essentially foment a change in regime.
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"Hopefully, the Gambian dictatorship will not see these sentences as endorsement of his autocratic rule by the United States," he said from the Minnesota courthouse.
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"They believe that Trump is somehow this autocratic despot and they're waiting for any words that fill in that narrative," Barron said in an interview.
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Frustrated with the shortcomings of democratically-elected governments in the past, a growing number of Filipinos are giving into democratic fatigue and embracing autocratic nostalgia.
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And there is no recognition that attacks on free trade, admiration for autocratic leaders, and questioning of US alliances threaten to undo these very accomplishments.
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But this has led to some members feeling sidelined and concerned that there's an informal inner circle making autocratic decisions that affect the whole group.
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When protests against Nicolás Maduro, the autocratic president, were at their height last year, some foreigners hoped to snap up homes at fire-sale prices.
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Austin Berg, co-author of a newly published book on Chicago politics, says the autocratic power of the mayor and aldermen is the core problem.
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For months it seemed the bitterness between Putin and Erdogan would never heal: a battle of wills between two autocratic hardliners at odds over Syria.
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It makes it easier for China to declare American-style democracy passé, and more tempting for other countries to copy China's autocratic model (see article).
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He says that it would allow governments in autocratic countries such as China, Iran and Russia to have greater control over what is available online.
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Its "state" is in many ways a far nastier reproduction of previous autocratic regimes, overlaid with a brutal "Islamic" veneer that most Muslims find repulsive.
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Egyptians have a history of inserting political comedy into films and plays, but its autocratic leaders were usually not the direct butt of these jokes.
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All societies face a "revolution of rising expectations" as they get richer, he notes, but for autocratic governments like China's, these pose an existential threat.
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Now with Mr. da Silva's release, the ideal of a country that is more united and democratic, and less autocratic, seems farther away than ever.
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan crushed opposition to his increasingly autocratic rule and cozied up to Putin, distancing himself from Europe and the United States.
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How the United States handles the situation could spell the difference between a successful transition back to democracy, deepening autocratic rule or outright civil war.
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Looking at the available records going back to 1950 shows that extreme swings between fast and slow growth are much more common under autocratic regimes.
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International communism has either mutated into autocratic capitalism, as in China, or retreated into a few dysfunctional enclaves, as in Venezuela, North Korea and Cuba.
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Yet, to use this as a justification for executive overreach is to establish norms that once more expand the power of an increasingly autocratic behemoth.
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To do this job, he says he is drawing from lessons from his years living under autocratic rule in the west African nation of Togo.
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The report repeatedly conflated different forms of socialism, mixing together the autocratic policies of states like the Soviet Union and Maoist China with democratic socialism.
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In both cases, U.S. administrations rejected military action and decided to rely on deterrence, containment and the ability of outside influences to transform autocratic systems.
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Historically, no autocratic regimes have survived for more than 74 years, because of the decay of their ideology and the corruption of the ruling elites.
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But "I-don't-care-ism" also appears to take shape as an enormous autocratic machine, one that rejects differences, alternative ideas, individualism, and critical feedback.
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In my surveys of Egyptians in the spring of 2012, those who felt the nation had become chaotic and unsafe expressed support for autocratic rule.
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Giving a family member such a prominent role is natural for a fearful, insecure leader with autocratic impulses, just as it is for Mr. Kim.
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"Pope Francis' decision to refuse Cardinal Barbarin's resignation today is a depressing reminder of the pope's autocratic disregard for victims," she said in a statement.
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The advantage of diverse coalitions is that they can theoretically represent broad ranges of views, keeping a powerful office from becoming too narrow or autocratic.
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Schiff added that "this president has a lot of autocratic tendencies," adding that he believes Trump would "like to be" a full-blown authoritarian himself.
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But the larger question is whether the company, in pursuing legitimate business opportunities abroad, is helping to shore up President Vladimir V. Putin's autocratic leadership.
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Mr. Erdogan's autocratic behavior is now considered by outside economists and many investors as a threat to Turkey's economy, once the envy of the region.
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Mugabe, 95, was Zimbabwe's president for 37 years until he was forced out in November 2017 following a military takeover that ended his autocratic rule.
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Jimmy Carter ran for office on a promise to withdraw all ground combat forces, in part to protest South Korea's autocratic government at the time.
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His party, synonymous with autocratic rule during the seven decades it was previously in power, would become the change agent the country needed so desperately.
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Around the same time, the government began cracking down on secular dissidents too, and in many ways Sisi has been more autocratic than Mubarak was.
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It ruled out any thought of taking the old-fashioned, highhanded, autocratic maestro approach with the musicians — not that it was really his style, anyway.
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The military removed Bashir from office and arrested him last April after months of demonstrations, bringing an end to his 30 years of autocratic rule.
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One figure, "The Captain," scowling and with legs spread, is inspired by Marcus Garvey or the fictional Emperor Jones, both ambitious liberation fighters turned autocratic.
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The government wants companies like his to succeed, and is willing to use its autocratic muscle to build infrastructure, promote new technology and rewrite policy.
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Increasingly, the 20 percent of America's electricity supplied by carbon-free nuclear power is controlled by autocratic, unaccountable states – Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and soon, China.
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This work is being done with input from all health care stakeholders and importantly, the results are not being put forth in an autocratic manner.
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His ouster as Tunisia's president in 2011 unleashed what became known as the Arab Spring, a movement that saw many autocratic leaders swept from power.
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Moderate voters undoubtedly are more likely to support liberal causes if their concerns are acknowledged by those resisting the autocratic actions of this Republican administration.
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Trump intuited and revealed the worst traits of worried Americans — their search for scapegoats, their desire to prostrate themselves before an autocratic savior, their bigotry.
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"They're seeing a very majoritarian model in practice and I fear that this might be reinforcing some of their more autocratic tendencies," said Ms. Marks.
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The military overthrew and detained then President Omar al-Bashir on April 11 after 16 weeks of street protests against his 30-year autocratic rule.
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Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's autocratic president, has also decided that Mr Trump is an American leader who will let him persecute his enemies without hindrance.
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An example, he said, might be if a foreign student from China or some other autocratic nation is visiting the websites of dissidents or emailing them.
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His victory was an earthquake in the Arab World, where the Brotherhood had been an underground movement for decades - both feared and repressed by autocratic leaders.
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If they are right, Team Trump genuinely had more faith in the murderous, mendacious, kleptocratic, autocratic, anti-Western Putin administration than in America's national security apparatus.
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But it was closed for two months from November by Uganda's autocratic president, Yoweri Museveni, after a strike by lecturers over unpaid bonuses sparked student protests.
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But the number of misinformation campaigns by autocratic nations that continue to be uncovered means the geopolitical forces leading to misinformation campaigns have gotten stronger. 6.
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Experts say this election season is the most disheartening since the PRI, the autocratic party that governed Mexico uninterruptedly for 71 years, was defeated in 2000.
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And then I became Jakarta bureau chief, and I wound up covering every single transition of Southeast Asian countries from autocratic one-man rule to democracy.
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Like thinking in this way and changes, because it has been a top-down, it's mostly ... It's not democratic, it's mostly autocratic, a lot of companies.
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Y., SENATE MINORITY LEADER: The president&aposs behavior is the kind of grossly autocratic behavior we&aposd expect in a banana republic, not a mature democracy.
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These are huge blows for the hotel, and big wins for Clooney's boycott, which covers the 9 hotels owned by Brunei's autocratic ruler, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
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That said, if autocratic countries form the largest economic and political bloc, don't expect them to allow others to write the rules that regulate the future.
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On occasion he could display something of the arrogance that is not uncommon among physicists working at the cutting edge, and he had an autocratic streak.
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Their business-friendly reforms, Mr Renzi's autocratic ways and the objections to both from more traditional left-wingers have stretched the party's unity to breaking point.
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AI, for example, entails the attention of watchdogs like the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, so the fewer autocratic political backers, the better.
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Oil-producing Libya has been in turmoil since the autocratic rule of Muammar Gaddafi was brought to an end by a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
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He says that the handover would allow governments in autocratic countries such as China, Iran and Russia to have greater control over what is available online.
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Considering that Angola has had an autocratic leader in power for more than 35 years, well, those are skills that might come in handy one day.
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The praise for Putin is a symptom of a deeper ideological sickness, one that is causing many to turn longingly to the idea of autocratic rule.
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Navigating Air Force One to capitals in Myanmar, Cuba, Vietnam and Laos, Obama hoped to improve US security by luring autocratic governments to change their ways.
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It created a showdown between a powerful, autocratic regime that was not inclined to liberalize, even marginally, and millions of citizens who passionately sought such reforms.
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Additionally, the highly publicized death of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid earlier this year stirred the pot of contention regarding architects' work under autocratic regimes.
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Opponents from Libya's "revolutionary" camp, some former rebels who fought to overthrow Gaddafi in a Nato-backed uprising in 2011, fear a return to autocratic rule.
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Renzi's PD critics say he has dragged the traditionally left-leaning party to the right and lament what they say is his autocratic, domineering leadership style.
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Abdelkader Bensalah was rejected by demonstrators right after he was named by parliament to take charge during a volatile transition period after decades of autocratic rule.
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In a recent report the World Bank pointed out that among non-democratic countries, the most autocratic have invested most in e-government services (see chart).
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More than anything, Tyrion and Sansa deserve the Iron Throne because each knows how vulnerable people suffer most at the hands of a cruel, autocratic monarchy.
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These complex regional dynamics are fueled by the desperate survival strategies of autocratic regimes, compounded by a mix of regional rivalries, sectarianism and trans-regional intrusions.
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But people in Western democracies do not generally share the same fear of arbitrary arrest or crackdowns as in countries seen in the West as autocratic.
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But the remarks garnered more attention given Trump's past comments about autocratic leaders and coming just a day prior to his scheduled meeting on Wednesday Erdoğan.
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The G20 will also include a growing group the President admires: fellow populists and the autocratic, sometimes repressive leaders of Russia, Turkey, China and Saudi Arabia.
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Brazil was among several countries that promptly recognized Mr. Guaidó as Venezuela's rightful leader, arguing that Mr. Maduro's autocratic conduct had rendered him an illegitimate leader.
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Trump's explainers often accuse the media of taking the President's words too literally or of mistaking his sarcasm for intent when he slips into autocratic rhetoric.
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Typically, you'll find there's hardly room for group discussion or input because the management style is autocratic, which limits creativity and desire to learn new things.
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She campaigned in part on social justice issues, including an investigation into assets acquired by the Kuomintang, the former governing party, during decades of autocratic rule.
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The referendum had been seen as the most effective legal avenue to challenge Mr. Maduro's increasingly autocratic rule, which many Venezuelans blame for the collapsing economy.
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Smith claimed that instead of concentrating on Russia's attraction to "kleptocracy and autocratic dictatorships," Trump and some allies in Congress have devised harmful narratives at home.
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Whether in autocratic or democratic societies, suppressing human rights and expression of artists anywhere is an attack on freedom of speech, human rights, and artists everywhere.
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That task is compounded when your country has been under the thumb of autocratic and corrupt dictators for generations and entrenched interests work actively against reforms.
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At the same time, rights groups say the country remains autocratic in some ways and life is difficult for minority groups, women and the political opposition.
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How did people who joined together with such hope and determination to overthrow a fiercely authoritarian president end up living under an even more autocratic leader?
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But if this administration is incapable of the basic honesty one expects from officials in a democracy, it also can't pull off autocratic, top-down coordination.
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And new charges accuse Paul Manafort, a one-time Trump campaign chairman, of paying off prominent Europeans to serve as boosters for an autocratic Ukrainian client.
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CreditCreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times True to form, an autocratic executive wrapping up a real estate deal is trying to wiggle out of paying contractors.
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Mussolini was the founder of Italian fascism, the autocratic ruler of Italy during World War II, and a principal ally of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
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While Mr. Trump's autocratic impulses have fueled our political system's mounting crisis, he is as much a symptom as he is a cause of this crisis.
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He assumed the old, autocratic order in the Middle East was about to change; he underestimated the power of tribalism, which provided identity amid amorphous globalism.
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Zimbabwe was largely cut off economically under Mr. Mugabe, whose government became increasingly autocratic and corrupt, and the country's new leaders hope to attract outside investment.
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But here is what I don't know for sure: Where does his impulse for rapid reform stop and his autocratic impulse to seize all power begin?
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Clinton's is hardly a surprise: The real estate mogul had long been open in his fawning admiration for autocratic leaders generally and Mr. Putin in particular.
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Soros has long opposed the autocratic regimes of Eastern Europe and American conservative politics, well before the two converged around Islamophobia and isolationism in recent years.
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For centuries Hungary has been subject to monarchic, autocratic, despotic and totalitarian governments that were occasionally disrupted by revolutions, only to find relative stability in 1989.
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It can have its bureaucratic overlaps and frustrations, but it helps mitigate the risks of concentrated power and hoarded information found in totalitarian or autocratic governments.
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"Either Blue and White at the ballot box or Erdogan in Balfour," Mr. Gantz wrote on Twitter on Saturday, alluding to the autocratic president of Turkey.
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" Heschel, in a speech on religion and race, reminded us of the persistence of autocratic power when he stated that "Pharaoh is not ready to capitulate.
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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election by a landslide by positioning Taiwan as an independent country staunchly defending its democratic system against autocratic China.
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The decision reflects President Trump's most autocratic instincts, showcasing his contempt for the independence of federal investigators as well as for the basic search for truth.
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Adult life expectancy at age 15 was 3% higher on average in countries 10 years after their transition to democracy compared to nations that remained autocratic.
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"I think there is a bit of autocratic envy in terms of the President's attitude toward the President of the Russian Federation," retired Air Force Gen.
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Despite the perennial predictions of looming collapse, the possibility that the country might fall to the "70 year itch" that doomed other autocratic states seems remote.
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Living under the reign of the autocratic Henry VIII, and being a prominent social figure, More might not have wanted to rock the boat too much.
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He fled the war-ravaged Horn of Africa 123 years ago, slipping across the border of Eritrea, one of the world's most repressive and autocratic nations.
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Whether in autocratic or democratic countries, the Global North or the Global South, rich or poor countries, unlawful attacks against art and creativity proliferated in 2019.
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Mr. Barrow's victory was a triumph for democracy on a continent where autocratic rule is the norm and peaceful transitions of power have become increasingly rare.
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John Wayne delivers that same admonition in "Rio Bravo," Howard Hawks's 1959 masterpiece about a sheriff and a ragtag group holding off a powerful, autocratic rancher.
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As he gathers momentum, with the memory of military dictatorship still strong, much will depend on the ability of Brazilian institutions to withstand his autocratic assault.
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"This stands as a really stunning rebuke to autocratic governments around the world who have declared open season on journalists and opposition figures," Mr. Gilmore said.
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During his autocratic rule, he won repeated elections with nearly 100 percent of the vote each time, often jailing political opponents or journalists who criticized him.
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His belief in democratizing art-making is in keeping with the perspective of Minjung art, which was partly a reaction against Park Chung-hee's autocratic rule.
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Hikvision is just a small part of a sprawling ecosystem of Chinese surveillance technology at home — and which China increasingly exports to autocratic regimes around he world.
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Acting for personal interest rather than national interest while subverting congressional appropriations is a prime example of the autocratic conduct the Framers believed warranted removal from office.
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It is a dimension of the global autocratic wave, made up of nation after nation exasperated with perceived venality and welcoming a big personality to assert control.
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Uzbekistan has no free press, and the government's propaganda machine cranks out the message that the only alternative to autocratic rule is political chaos or Islamic radicalism.
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Proudly democratic Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by autocratic China, and Taiwan's government has accused Beijing of not understanding democracy when it criticizes Taipei.
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"WE ARE the 22019%!" declared Henrique Capriles, governor of the Venezuelan state of Miranda and a leader of the opposition to the country's autocratic left-wing government.
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On one side are the generals, who have won the support of powerful autocratic countries in the region including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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And that's how Caro hooks you and gets you to understand how an autocratic and never-elected person like Moses could become so powerful for so long.
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Since the pro-democracy upheaval of 1989, the party has owed its longevity partly to managing peaceful, institutionalised transitions of power from one autocratic leader to another.
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And, all too often, when those people have complained about that, they've been ignored, dismissed, or slammed with even more autocratic dictates than they suffered with before.
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It works—at least for some time—because it taps into a deep evolutionary principle that when there is threat, people want strong rules and autocratic leaders.
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They did not devise autocrat-proof institutions, but they were keenly aware of politicians' autocratic tendencies, and felt a great trepidation about whether American democracy should endure.
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By opening the economy and curbing the state, Xi Jinping, China's autocratic leader, could boost performance within China's borders and win a less hostile reception beyond them.
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For instance, autocratic Chinese business bosses, notably from state-owned enterprises, loathe being cross-examined in foreign commercial courts or arbitration tribunals, and often do badly there.
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In 3,000 total simulations, a socially intolerant person on our measure is more supportive of autocratic alternatives than a socially tolerant person 100 percent of the time.
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But in their complacency, they will further validate the truly non-negotiable things about Trump's candidacy: his various bigotries, his unusual viciousness, his promise of autocratic rule.
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In other words, polarization can lead to autocratic leaders because polarized constituents may believe it is better to let democracy wither than have their opponent in power.
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Credit Suisse Group AG has barred transactions involving certain Venezuelan bonds, fearing any potential fallout from being seen to support the increasingly autocratic government of Nicolas Maduro.
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The series, which includes a total of five issues for Volume 1, follows citizens of California as they struggle to seize power back from an autocratic government.
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It would be nice to think that the protesters were particularly irked by the sight of two autocratic, media-hating leaders with dodgy business connections getting together.
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This was the first of the Arab Spring revolutions that toppled some other autocratic leaders in the Arabic-speaking region in North Africa and the Middle East.
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The problem is not just the nature of Putin's autocratic government, which uses social conservatism and nationalism to hold together a nation frayed by massive economic inequality.
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The key insight of autocratic governments like Russia's may be the recognition that democracies have a weakness: They are open societies committed to free speech and expression.
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True, breaking up the United States' near-century-old relationship with its most autocratic ally is a trickier project than sending Uber a message by downloading Lyft.
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But since major protests in 2013 against plans to build over Gezi Park in Istanbul, and then a corruption scandal, Mr Erdogan has become ever more autocratic.
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With the exception of a handful of small, often autocratic regimes, in countries across the globe women generally constitute less than 10% of the entire prison population.
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To do otherwise would forsake the Constitution's system of checks and balances, and invite a dangerous erosion of the legal architecture protecting this country from autocratic tyranny.
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Once a would-be authoritarian makes it to power, democracies face a second critical test: Will the autocratic leader subvert democratic institutions or be constrained by them?
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Developing an ideology may seem an unlikely preoccupation for a popular autocratic regime that is not afraid to flex its military muscle and rattle its nuclear saber.
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Weng's disappearance is as sharp an illustration as one could hope of the dangers of handing over rein of Interpol to a citizen of an autocratic regime.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is threatening to ban the encrypted messaging app Signal over a method it uses to circumvent being censored in countries with autocratic governments.
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The NLD faces sky-high expectations at home and abroad, but the Nobel peace prize winner's autocratic decision-making style makes the government's intentions hard to read.
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When Mr. Trump began tweeting against the Justice Department to lower the scale of the sentence for his ally Roger Stone, he was fully embracing autocratic legalism.
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Autocratic societies have an easier time imposing strict behavioral limits than democratic ones; it's hard to imagine Italy locking down Milan the way China closed off Wuhan.
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The carefully choreographed event, at which top leaders make speeches and delegates rubber-stamp new policy, lends a veneer of democracy to China's autocratic system of governance.
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Another moment when Mr. Lang supplies a compelling contemporary retort to Beethoven comes in an aria for the autocratic Governor (the charismatic, bright-voiced tenor Alan Oke).
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Its clients have included Saudi Arabia's absolute monarchy, Turkey under the autocratic leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and corruption-plagued governments in countries like South Africa.
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Mr. Erdogan's party is challenging the vote counts but said it would respect the results; despite his autocratic bent, Mr. Erdogan values the legitimacy that elections confer.
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GROZNY, Russia — Ramzan A. Kadyrov did not sustain himself as the autocratic leader of the Chechen republic by failing to understand the value of propaganda and spectacle.
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If anything, sanctions inflicting hardship on 80 million Iranians will unite the country behind the autocratic government; sanctions inhibit the people's longing for freedom, equality and justice.
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Until the legislative branch takes back its intended authority, and remembers how to function, the very existence of the machine will tempt its operator with autocratic power.
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"For most autocratic leaders, it has been quite dangerous to leave power," said Daniel Treisman, a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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This is a top priority for the autocratic government in Ankara, because Turkey's President blames the cleric for the 2016 coup that threatened his grip on power.
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Protests are common in Tunisia during January when many mark the anniversary of the 2011 toppling of the longtime autocratic leader, President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
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We simply cannot allow Moscow to define the direction of another century by orchestrating a parade of Western democracies on their way to becoming corrupt, autocratic societies.
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But critics argue that the crackdown has also given the state cover to single out members of the political opposition and reinforce Mr. Erdogan's increasingly autocratic rule.
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Challenged by increasingly autocratic governments in Poland and Hungary, Brussels is considering using aid cuts to punish populist attacks on the rule of law and judicial independence.
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But with friction between the nation's autocratic president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, and Mr. Putin have come reports that Belarus is reluctant to host more Russian forces permanently.
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Set in a rigidly ordered dystopia whose motto is "Keep It Clean," the movie concerns an autocratic president who decides to intern all children he finds unattractive.
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But President Trump made clear on Monday that the period of ostracism was over as he hosted Mr. Sisi and pledged unstinting support for the autocratic ruler.
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Deraa was where peaceful protests against 40 years of autocratic Assad family rule began in 2011, and were met by deadly force, before spreading across the country.
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Within two weeks of the Inauguration, the hysterical hyperventilators have come to seem more prescient in their fear of incipient autocratic fanaticism than the reassuring pooh-poohers.
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We do not live in a world where progress is binary, though many Americans seem to think that a country is either autocratic (bad) or democratic (good).
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"Whilst Saudi has massive and undisputed wealth, there is a sense of being an untried centre, which in a pretty autocratic country is beholden to their leader."
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There are allusions to unhappiness in the writers' room because of Stewart's autocratic rule, with one producer saying "plenty of people" would describe Stewart as a tyrant.
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With healthy doses of irony and camp, Al Solh's works poked fun at autocratic politicians in moments of excess, surrounded by the trappings of plunder and pillage.
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Tunisia's economy has struggled in the six years since the uprising that ended Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali's autocratic rule, suffering from labour unrest and high unemployment.
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Despite his autocratic style, Fujimori still has a solid following among Peruvians who credit him with fixing an economy in crisis and quashing a bloody leftist insurgency.
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Since 2017, Mr. Netanyahu has been courting the so-called Visegrad Group of right-wing and increasingly autocratic regimes in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Tunisia has been battling militant groups operating in remote areas near its border with Algeria since an uprising overthrew autocratic leader Zine Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
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What connects South Korea's left-wing president, Japan's center-right prime minister, and autocratic Philippine populist Rodrigo Duterte, other than the fact that they're all in Asia?
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Powerful autocratic countries like China and Russia that have long disliked US finger wagging likely delighted in Trump's talk of allowing countries to do as they please.
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Tunisia has been battling militant groups operating in remote areas near the border with Algeria since an uprising overthrew autocratic leader Zine Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
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"It's possible for all kinds of structures to feel sort of autocratic and repressive, or for all kinds of structures to feel efficient and joyful," McCue says.
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Thomas B. Edsall Since before President Trump was elected — and with greater frequency afterward — historians, political scientists and journalists have wondered how autocratic our democracy might become.
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China deems Taiwan a wayward province to be taken back by force if necessary, though proudly democratic Taiwan has shown no interest in being ruled by autocratic China.
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Taiwan and China have different systems, laws and values, it added, in a pointed reference to Taiwan's freewheeling democratic system in contrast to China's autocratic form of government.
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Another is that an anti-Ghosn faction at Nissan, increasingly angered at his autocratic management style and his loyalty to Renault, tipped off the authorities about internal matters.
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But his nativist, autocratic ideas have gained currency as resentment over aspects of the transition set in when voters' aspirations exceeded the pace of social and economic change.
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It's a place once personally visited by Josip Broz Tito, the former autocratic president of the Socialist republic of Yugoslavia, who even left a personal thank-you letter.
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Yet perhaps a civilisation masquerading as a state, as Pye called China, helps explain the modern autocratic state's durability in the face of many predictions of its demise.
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He had been praised for leading the first democratic success from revolutions that toppled autocratic leaders in the Arabic-speaking region in North Africa and the Middle East.
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But it was his reference to autocratic leaders that arguably drew the most blood, given Mr. Trump's assiduous cultivation of Mr. Putin and President Xi Jinping of China.
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Over three years his forces have clashed with militants as well as with former anti-Gaddafi rebels resisting what they saw as an attempt to reimpose autocratic rule.
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This year's state congress confirmed that autocratic trend, with fewer dissenting votes (just 220 out of 22000,838) and more references to Xi as the "core" of the party.
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Instead, Trump will speak with the mostly autocratic cohort of leaders who represent more than a billion Muslims -- some of whom do so with hefty opposition and protest.
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For much of his rule the legitimacy of Ilham Aliyev, the autocratic president who inherited his post from his father, rested on Western-operated oil and gas projects.
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But despite the government's autocratic record, there is not much sign of that; it's tough attitude towards corruption is one reason why the scheme is managed so well.
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The normal brake on an unwise, unprepared or autocratic president would be the constitutional one that Alexander Hamilton and James Madison designed in the form of our Congress.
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Since the agreement Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, has become even more openly and arrogantly autocratic, as if to show that he can flout European norms with impunity.
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Mugabe was pressured to resign in November after 37 years of autocratic rule, in a dramatic standoff with the military, which placed the veteran leader under house arrest.
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Like other Western brands that cater to increasingly ethical consumers, the Swedes are therefore nervously watching Cambodia's autocratic government squeeze workers ahead of a general election next year.
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Mr. Kerry criticized the boycott of the 2014 election by opposition parties, although the opposition's demand was simply for a constitutional monarchy in place of Bahrain's autocratic system.
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If we had just stood by the autocratic Mubarak (details remain sketchy on how) the turmoil of Tahrir Square would not have shaken Egypt and the Middle East.
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Much less far gone, but on the autocratic path, are Hungary and Poland, where populist nationalist governments, are stoking the anti-immigrant flames that fuel their popular support.
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Mr. Erdogan, a charismatic leader who has tapped into rising populism in Turkey, has grown increasingly autocratic, prompting criticism from liberals at home and from some allies abroad.
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The president's critics have warned that Erdogan's re-election would cement his already firm grip on power and embolden a leader they accuse of showing increasingly autocratic tendencies.
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The unrest following Bouazizi's death -- which spread from Kasserine to across the country -- led to the toppling of the longtime autocratic leader, President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
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In fact, they NEED to see the world that way to justify the kind of regime that the family has built: brutally autocratic, extravagantly militarized, self-consciously destitute.
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And yet a new authority figure has emerged within companies, much less exuberant than old-fashioned autocratic CEOs but just as determined to amass power: the imperial CFO.
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Mr. McFaul said that for nearly a quarter of a century autocratic leaders "had to play defense" against the democratizing trend that seized the post-Cold War order.
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Human rights groups warn that Bangladesh is increasingly becoming an autocratic state, inclusive of intimation and clamping down on all forms of political dissent, including arts and journalism.
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Today Poland is split between supporters of the nationalist, autocratic model of the ruling party, and those favoring the ideals of liberal democracy embodied in the European Union.
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Russia has been steadily expanding its military influence across Africa, alarming Western officials by increasing arms sales, security agreements and training programs for unstable countries or autocratic leaders.
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But for McKinsey, it underscored the risk of consulting in an unstable part of the world, where the company might be perceived as enabling autocratic or corrupt governments.
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This year's state congress confirmed that autocratic trend, with fewer dissenting votes (just 14 out of 2,838) and more references to Xi as the "core" of the party.
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Now a clash between an autocratic president who disdains democratic norms and a chamber of the legislature controlled by the opposition is playing out in the United States.
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He had reportedly expressed his view with other G7 leaders, several of whom responded with their concerns about Russia's autocratic behavior — at odds with G7's democratic values.
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He had reportedly expressed his view with other G7 leaders, several of whom responded with their concerns about Russia's autocratic behavior — at odds with G7's democratic values.
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"This is the most insidious form of aggression -- to have that line of communication, 5G -- dominated by an autocratic government that does not share our values," Pelosi added.
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Trump abruptly made this decision after a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, another autocratic leader the president has displayed a high level of admiration for.
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This is reinforced by a Trump White House that selectively refuses to take action or speak out against autocratic governments for human rights abuses, including the Khashoggi murder.
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But Trump inherited a country that was already drowning in illicit funds, pilfered loot, and blood-soaked finances first swiped by authoritarian and autocratic governments and networks elsewhere.
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In early 1979, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi — who had stayed in power thanks partly to a C.I.A.-led coup in 1953 — fled an uprising against his autocratic government.
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"By employing oligarch-funded, quasi-mercenary military advisors, particularly in countries where leaders seek unchallenged autocratic rule, Russian interests gain access to natural resources on favorable terms," Gen.
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Duterte, an autocratic leader who has bragged about personally killing people and has overseen a ruthless drug war that has killed thousands, hosted Trump in Manila in November.
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Ms. Jayaram's autocratic style in no way diminished her popularity, and may have enhanced it, especially among the poor, lower-caste women who were her most devoted followers.
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A US president with strong autocratic tendencies is going out of his way to praise a foreign leader that has already amassed the powers Trump clearly wishes he possessed.
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French aircraft have been conducting reconnaissance flights over Libya, where Paris took a leading role in a 2011 NATO air campaign that helped rebels overthrow Muammar Gaddafi's autocratic rule.
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The 62-year-old autocratic leader disappeared from public view in late July and several foreign media outlets, citing unnamed sources, reported at the time that he had died.
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Autocratic nostalgia Latest polls suggest Rodrigo Duterte, Davao City's firebrand mayor, who has made international headlines for his controversial statements in recent weeks, is comfortably leading the presidential race.
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"Every country knows the drawbacks of working with autocratic governments," said Adam Boehler, the DFC's chief executive, in an interview, listing poor infrastructure as one consequence developing countries faced.
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Experts say the plan could cut funding for humanitarian programs, weaken the validity of U.S. terrorism listings, project hostility toward Muslims and play into the whims of autocratic leaders.
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Traditional civil rights groups evolved out of the black church, which tended to be led by autocratic men who condemned gays and lesbians and didn't see women as equals.
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In Melania, the Saudi press and the Saudi government found the perfect spokeswoman, who projects a glamorous image that glosses over one of world's most autocratic and oppressive regimes.
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There's too much truth about autocratic regimes contained within; all those smiling, knowing denials of having poisoned former Russian spies in the UK are straight out of this playbook.
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At the same time, the region is dominated by autocratic rule with leaders often more concerned about internal threats than external ones such as Iran or the Islamic State.
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Asked by Arabiya whether he thought the management of PIF would be too autocratic, he said there would be an elected board that would make investment decisions for PIF.
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Abdelkader Bensalah, the interim president, was rejected by demonstrators right after he was named by Parliament to take charge during a volatile transition period after decades of autocratic rule.
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As China's increasingly autocratic leader, Xi Jinping, tightens his grip on power, it is becoming harder to remain optimistic that he will continue to tolerate circumvention of the firewall.
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Autocratic-leaning populists — politicians who win at least relatively free and fair elections but undermine democracy upon taking office — have proliferated globally, from Hungary to the Philippines to Brazil.
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At least 2,000 people calling for an end to the autocratic military rule of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi have been arrested since protests started on September 20.
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Her autocratic persona and short temper became legendary in Brasília, a capital where back-room deals are customary when forging and nurturing alliances with an array of bickering parties.
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Take Poland's autocratic leader, who, Tuesday night, suddenly purged much of the nation's Supreme Court in a single stroke, confirming that country's all but total break with democratic processes.
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Under Ben Ali, media in Tunisia were among the most repressed in Africa and Arab world as part of his crackdown on opposition and criticism of his autocratic government.
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This is an attack on our democracy being carried out by a marginally autocratic government, which has best been described as a kleptocracy: a government of thieves and thugs.
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As the world's most powerful autocratic states, Russia and China have that capability and intent, both to use AI to maintain government dominance at home and beat enemies beyond.
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Ironically, popular distaste with elite corruption is so high that modern autocratic populists, such as President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, have even risen to power on anti-corruption promises.
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Instead, she argued that Trump's erratic behavior and autocratic tendencies are both in fact a product of the economic inequality that should be central to the Democratic Party's platform.
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The Syrian uprising was set in motion in 2011, when citizens began demonstrating against Bashar al-Assad and the autocratic regime run by the Assad family for four decades.
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The activist, Oyub Titiev, 61, had worked for years investigating allegations of abuse ranging from torture to murder under the increasingly autocratic rule of the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.
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It is the president's latest major foreign policy decision that appears to have been heavily influenced by autocratic leaders without first being fully vetted by career American government officials.
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Though the slowdown appears mild, it also holds the potential to intensify the widespread sense of grievance roiling many societies, contributing to the embrace of populists with autocratic impulses.
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But Mr. Orban's autocratic tendencies have long alarmed others in Washington, particularly lawmakers who serve on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Commission.
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He argues in favor of his autocratic rule by positing that without decisive, paternal forces to direct them, people cannot be counted on to conduct themselves intelligently and productively.
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But not enough attention has been placed on the crucial question of whether the Supreme Court in the Trump era will provide an effective bulwark against autocratic lawless rule.
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And it has begun to reassess its culture, installing safeguards now common in corporate America but far less so in the performing arts, where autocratic personalities often hold sway.
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LONDON — Just over a week ago, Viktor Orban, Hungary's autocratic prime minister, painted a sorry picture of the opposition he is about to face in general elections in April.
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" And former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign said Sanders' comments "are a part of a larger pattern throughout his life to embrace autocratic leaders and governments across the globe.
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" Biden: "Make no mistake: Bernie Sanders' comments on Fidel Castro are a part of a larger pattern throughout his life to embrace autocratic leaders and governments across the globe.
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Moi became Kenya's leader after Jomo Kenyatta's death in 1978, bringing in an era of autocratic and at times dictatorial rule that made Moi and his family extremely wealthy.
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The investment has caused a political uproar in Venezuela, where opposition forces have taken to the streets to protest the autocratic rule of the nation's unpopular president, Nicolás Maduro.
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He won an upset electoral victory in December over the country's autocratic leader of 22 years, Yahya Jammeh, and was sworn in on Thursday when his term officially began.
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The killings took place in Bishkek, the rickety capital of the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, at the start of the 2010 revolution that overthrew Mr. Bakiyev's autocratic rule.
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"We know the patterns of totalitarianism — the single political party, the control of schools, press, radio, the arts, the sciences, and the church to support autocratic authority," she said.
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President Trump has offered to mediate, but his warm relations with the increasingly autocratic Mr. Modi — Mr. Trump attended the Houston fan fest — hardly make him an honest broker.
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Daniel arap Moi: As the autocratic president of Kenya from 1978 to 2002, he ruled the country in a postcolonial era of political repression, economic stagnation and notorious corruption.
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It was the third free parliamentary election in Tunisia since the 2011 revolution that ended decades of autocratic rule and introduced democracy, with a new constitution agreed in 2014.
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The clash between an autocratic president and the institutions of American freedom that intensified this week with the appointment of a special prosecutor, Robert S. Mueller III, was inevitable.
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Supporters though say those worries are overblown and say the greater threat is that autocratic countries get fed up with U.S. management and create their own splintered internet nodes.
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Tsai said it was totally hypocritical of an autocratic China that lacks democracy, human rights or freedom of speech to use the language of democracy to criticize the bill.
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"This is the most insidious form of aggression, to have that line of communication, 5G, dominated by an autocratic government that does not share our values," Pelosi, D-Calif.
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The country's current president, Patrice Talon, a businessman whose grip on the country — formerly one of Africa's most stable democracies — has grown increasingly autocratic since his election in 2016.
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The country's current president, Patrice Talon, a businessman whose grip on the country — formerly one of Africa's most stable democracies — has grown increasingly autocratic since his election in 2016.
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In the case of China, Beijing officials have grown convinced that the Trump administration's aim is – at the very least – to alter the way the autocratic capitalist regime does business.
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The president&aposs critics have warned that Erdogan&aposs re-election would cement his already firm grip on power and embolden a leader they accuse of showing increasingly autocratic tendencies.
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While the idea of an HIV registry might seem autocratic, most countries already have some version of one, including the US, which has kept track of HIV+ people since 1981.
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He has said the Philippines "needs" China and that he "loves" Xi Jinping (Duterte's autocratic rule has made him lean more on China, despite the public's concerns about Philippine sovereignty).
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Why it matters: Almost exactly 17 years later, the BRICs are emblematic of a very different world, but not the one O'Neill foresaw — one that is autocratic, nationalist and turbulent.
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Mr Weber has long attracted criticism for his reluctance to stand up to Viktor Orban, Hungary's increasingly autocratic prime minister, whose Fidesz party remains, scandalously, a member of the EPP.
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But the CIA does not gather human intelligence - the most valuable and difficult-to-obtain information - from UAE informants on its autocratic government, the three former CIA officials told Reuters.
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Mr. Breja said in the legal complaint that Mr. Burns, whom he characterized as behaving like an autocratic "king," pressured suppliers to hurriedly come up with more mint-flavored product.
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Limited resources and risk appetite have left Russia falling back on tools like sending Kremlin-connected mercenaries to conflict zones or offering consulting services to autocratic regimes on election manipulation.
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Palestinians lament the corrupt and autocratic leadership that now plagues the PA, which many see as just doing Israel's bidding and further entrenching the occupation, with the international community's backing.
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However, Nicolás Maduro, the country's autocratic president, has proven himself willing to squelch street protests by force, and has already remained in office far longer than many observers thought possible.
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Their stories reveal a business with deeply skewed priorities, where every warning sign along the path to its own undoing was cavalierly ignored at the behest of its autocratic founder.
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Many opposition supporters say poor Venezuelans have been duped into supporting a corrupt, autocratic government that is impoverishing the nation and indebting it to predatory allies like China and Russia.
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Tech companies automate autocratic media in China around the world A troubling trend is sweeping Silicon Valley—big tech acquiescing to digital authoritarianism to gain access to the Chinese market.
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The stakes have rarely been greater for U.S.-European relations as we enter a new and intensifying period of major power competition, pitting democracies and open societies against autocratic rivals.
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Kuczynski, who met the pope at the airport, has called for Francis to bring the country together following an outcry over his presidential pardon of former autocratic leader Alberto Fujimori.
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The election has been called a "show" of democracy, a veiled attempt to pull Uzbekistan from its place as one of the most corrupt and autocratic states in Central Asia.
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No wonder Trump admires autocratic leaders like Egypt's Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who effectively banned Egypt's version of "The Daily Show" because he didn't like the way it portrayed him.
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Many believe King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who took over the throne in December following the death of his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej, plays a key role behind Bangkok's increasing autocratic stance.
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And the initial defiance of judicial orders and his continued personal attacks on the judiciary reinforced Trump's autocratic tendencies, refusing to play by the dictates of the United States Constitution.
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And his defence of liberal democracy is a welcome antidote both to the sordid past of the Fujimori family and to the worrying autocratic misrule on display in nearby Venezuela.
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Rio is by far the most violent place ever to do so (though it is worth recalling that Brazil is the first host country that is neither rich nor autocratic).
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The coup-makers killed many fellow Turks, discredited the army, weakened its ability to protect the frontier and fight terrorists, rattled NATO and removed the restraints on an autocratic president.
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Next Thursday marks what would have been the 75th birthday of the notoriously autocratic late leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, father of its current leader, Kim Jong-un.
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But the CIA does not gather "human intelligence" — the most valuable and difficult-to-obtain information — from UAE informants on its autocratic government, the three former CIA officials told Reuters.
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Or will they choose to continue to stray away from its longstanding democratic norms and alienate its NATO allies with behavior characteristic of autocratic regimes adversarial to the free world?
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Dismayed by the continued autocratic rule of the Communist Party in Beijing, and the threat it poses to Hong Kong's liberties, they increasingly identify themselves with their city, not China.
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That Erdogan will no doubt be the chief beneficiary of this turmoil, using it to further his push for an autocratic Islamist Turkey, does not mean that he staged it.
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Speaking on "Fox and Friends Weekend," Huntsman mistakenly suggested to former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci that the upcoming summit would be a historic moment for two autocratic powers.
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We survived 150 years of British rule, only to be colonized again by Communist China — the autocratic regime from which our parents and grandparents escaped in the 1950s and '60s.
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And Germany and Europe will probably have to strike more than one deal with Turkey in the future, and will have to cooperate with autocratic states on many other issues.
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Tech companies automate autocratic media in China around the world In recent weeks, several high-profile incidents have been blamed on infrastructural elements of an increasingly frequent scapegoat: the internet.
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And the two nations' recent clashes in trade, national security, and tech have made Americans fear China as much as a rogue nuclear power headed by a dynastic, autocratic leader.
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Proudly democratic Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by autocratic China, and Taiwan's government has accused Beijing of not understanding what democracy is about when it criticizes Taipei.
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Mr. Orban, the autocratic leader of one of the right-wing parties stoking fears in Europe, spent $36 million in government funds and risked considerable political capital on the referendum.
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In recent decades, Taiwan, once autocratic, has evolved from strategic American ally used to contain China into a vital and democratic trade partner important in the American technology supply chain.
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For Mr. Prayuth, an autocratic ruler who wielded absolute authority as head of the military's National Council for Peace and Order, leading a multiparty, coalition government will be an adjustment.
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It's part of a broader pattern: While many agree that extraordinary measures are needed to contain the coronavirus, the pandemic has been a boon for leaders with an autocratic bent.
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By now, you've probably heard that Budapest is also home to one of the world's newly autocratic governments, led by Viktor Orbán and his far-right Hungarian nationalist party, Fidesz.
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Sudan: A week after a protest-driven coup ousted the autocratic president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the military and civilians are grappling with a familiar question: Who takes the reins?
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Fortunately the United States is waking up to his autocratic aims and imposing sanctions against a nation that no longer should be a member of NATO or our military ally.
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Dr. Virchow's words from 170 years ago about the creep of religion into state affairs, the outsize power of the wealthy and the autocratic impulses of government feel unsettlingly contemporary.
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After that, hardly a month went by at the opera without disputes with singers and stagehands or with senior employees who left in a huff over Mr. Bergé's autocratic style.
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In response, Tsai said it was hypocritical of an autocratic China that lacks democracy, human rights or freedom of speech to use the language of democracy to criticize the bill.
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And it shows how vulnerable everyone is when morality is policed arbitrarily by an autocratic state, which can choose to expose the "indecency" of some people's lives but not others.
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Alongside efforts to realize freedom of speech in countries still under autocratic regimes, new initiatives and debates have emerged motivated by fears about how we are exercising that freedom digitally.
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Mr. Bolton expressed concern to others in the administration that the president was effectively granting favors to autocratic leaders like Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Xi Jinping of China.
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That consolidation has occurred in conjunction with an increase in free press penalties, including fines and jail time, that have grown more severe as Erdogan's reign has become more autocratic.
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That was the approach that enabled the secular opposition to defeat the party of Turkey's autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in municipal elections last year in Istanbul and other cities.
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Autocratic regimes with a demagogic bent are nearly always inefficient, because they cannot create and extend the network of delegated trust that is essential to making any organization work smoothly.
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The fight is between the autocratic command economy of a risen China and the economies of democratic systems based on checks and balances, independent judiciaries and the rule of law.
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As witnessed last month when millions of people took to the streets across our country, there is a clear momentum to prevent Mr. Trump from carrying out his autocratic rule.
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In a tense meeting with members of the cabinet of the country's autocratic ruler, the United Nations official, Juan E. Méndez, was again denied, this time with a jeering dismissal.
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Unfortunately, in Central and Eastern Europe, illiberal and autocratic impulses have never quite died; indeed, they now feed some of our neighbors' strategic hedging and flirtations with Russia or China.
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It would appear that President Trump was eager to embrace the steady – not to mention autocratic – hand of a partner in Central America who vowed cooperation on migration and drugs.
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His activism has made him an important figure for a faction of the opposition protesting an autocratic government that also happens to be a strategic ally of the United States.
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Proudly democratic Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by autocratic China, and Taiwan's government has accused Beijing of not understanding what democracy is all about when it criticizes Taipei.
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Any vast new autocratic control systems will be costly to run — [and] it's plausible those costs will be low enough to compete with liberal democracies, but that's still just a bet.
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" He said unless platforms or regulators find a way to provide meaningful disclosure of online political ads, it's "virtually inviting autocratic governments to take advantage of [our] openness to weaken us.
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Mr Trump doubts that American leadership is needed to keep the world safe, questions alliances like NATO, denounces George W. Bush for invading Iraq and praises Russia's autocratic president, Vladimir Putin.
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Third, the north-east, which was a puppet state of Japan in 1932-45 and endured autocratic planning for a generation longer than elsewhere, now has an unusually strong collectivist tradition.
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The arrests and broadcast bans have shocked Kenyans used to the freewheeling media and irreverent political culture that have taken root since the end of decades of autocratic rule in 2002.
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The autocratic country's state-controlled media said the Australian man, Alek Sigley, had admitted to "systematically" collecting information and providing photos to foreign news outlets, according to The New York Times.
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In a country whose leaders have intermittently resorted to anti-Americanism to prop up autocratic rule or justify protectionist policies, modernisers have long laboured to overcome distrust of the United States.
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Under the autocratic Nationalist rule of Chiang Kai-shek, Bai became head of a body representing the Hui minority, a diverse group of about 10m Chinese united by their Muslim faith.
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But Mr Xi ignores another conclusion that could be drawn from China's defeats: that an autocratic political system fearful of Western ideas was at least partly to blame for China's weakness.
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He said that in 1990 "Europe was our future, and now we are Europe&aposs future" Critics say Orban is running an increasingly autocratic government since coming to power in 2010.
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The clashes began after authorities closed subway stations, set up checkpoints and cordoned off a square where opponents had planned their latest protest against autocratic government and a crippling economic crisis.
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After all, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the 77-year-old strongman who has ruled this oil-rich Central Asian state for nearly three decades, tolerates no challenge, however trifling, to his autocratic rule.
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