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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After an upbringing like his, dealing with an old autocrat like Balestre was, well, child's play.
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But the blood-and-iron autocrats did not help the kid-glove moderates.
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But the self-made billionaire is an autocrat who seems not to understand the essentials of democracy.
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Faced with public anger about the Gulf war, the royal autocrat did make some concessions.
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He governed as an autocrat but also as a twentieth-century politician.
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In others Communist apparatchiks remade themselves as nationalist autocrats, and stifled democracy in its crib.