Yet as we have seen it lacked the autocratic power of the government director-general, and so it failed and had to be replaced.
Roads and portions of roads, formerly in bitter competition, were joined together in a way only possible under absolutely unified and autocratic control.
She is fighting for no advantage or selfish object of her own, but for the liberation of peoples everywhere from the aggressions of autocratic force.
The nations must realize their common life and effect a workable partnership to secure that life against the aggressions of autocratic and self-pleasing power.
No autocratic Government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Supple to wind and tide, the Autocratic swung in a wide arc, until the lights of the tender disappeared from Staff's field of vision.
That'd be telling, and telling would get somebody aboard the Autocratic into terrible bad trouble if it ever leaked out.
By definite stages, to which he was almost altogether oblivious, the Autocratic weighed anchor, shook off her tender and swung away on the seven-day stretch.
The Autocratic had settled into her stride, bearing swiftly down St. George's Channel for Queenstown, where she was scheduled to touch at midnight.
This is the second time a crime of this nature had been committed aboard the Autocratic within a period of eighteen months--less than that, in fact.
And there need not be any hitch in the whole affair if the girl is only reasonable and this autocratic ranger can be ignored or bought over to silence.
Well, maybe; but he made himself very autocratic when I attempted to discuss her future.
This attitude of Socialism is comprehensible and logical, for no student of world history can deny that an established church has been in all ages and still is one of the strongest bulwarks of an autocratic state.
By their continuous advocacy of a republic and their obstructive tactics they had impaired to a considerable extent the authority of the state, and autocratic government rests upon authority.
The autocratic President goes inevitably the way its prototype the autocrat went.
The war made the autocratic executive in the person of Mr. Wilson intolerable.
Do autocratic freedom and independence inhere in pure and thinking Intelligence exclusively, or are they also found in the soul which applies its contemplative activity to intelligence, and its practical activity to virtue?
If this be so, and since we locate free will in that which precedes its execution, we shall also have to locate autocratic freedom and independence of virtue outside of the (actual) deed.
Father turnedautocratic then and said, 'Because I don't choose, darling.
Hence she meekly accepted Louis's autocratic orderings of her coming and going.
She sat up suddenly, and turned away from Louis, holding out longing arms for the softness of her mother, the autocratic strength of her father.
This indeed was no new thing in the world, but Louis was such an ideal autocrat that somehow he made autocratic government strangely attractive.
It is true that his aggressive, arbitrary rule strengthened temporarilyautocratic government in Russia.
His own rule was unlimited autocracy, and autocratic Islam has remained.
The Russians overturned the old order and submitted to the autocratic rule of a small group of doctrinaire Bolshevik socialists, because these men seemed to have something new to try.
In England Sir Thomas More produced a quaint imitation of Plato's Republic in his Utopia, setting out a sort of autocratic communism.
Compulsion and servitude have given way to ideas of associated freedom, and the sovereignty that was once concentrated in an autocratic king and god has been widely diffused throughout the community.
Could this be done, the world would have a better idea of the thin stuff out of which autocratic kingship is fashioned.
What they insisted on was a considerable limitation of the Autocratic Power; and on that point the Emperor has hitherto shown himself inexorable.
Some day, he believes, the experiment will be completed, but not by the autocratic power.
It may be said, therefore, that the autocratic power, which has been during the last four centuries out of all comparison the most important factor in Russian history, was in a certain sense created by the Mongol domination.
For a century and a half the country had been subjected to a series of drastic changes, administrative and social, by the energetic action of the Autocratic Power, with little spontaneous co-operation on the part of the people.
One of the most important of these was caused by the rapid development of the Autocratic Power.
They developed the ancient institutions so far as these were useful and consistent with the exercise of autocratic power, and made only such alterations as practical necessity demanded.
From an historical review of the question he drew the conclusion that "the Autocratic Power created serfage, and the Autocratic Power ought to abolish it.
They did not like the idea, because the Social Democratic policy is to extort concessions, not to ask favours, and to refrain from anything that might increase the prestige of the Autocratic Power.
The baroness was a charming woman who used a moderate invalidism in a smiling imperturbable fashion to insure herself a certain immunity from the demands of her autocratic lord.
In March 1862 Lincoln made him military governor of the part of Tennessee captured from the Confederates, and after two years of autocratic rule (with much danger to himself) he succeeded in organizing a Union government for the state.
Their repugnance to it is largely a survival of the times when an autocraticruling class imposed taxes upon the people for its own selfish purposes.
Autocratic Germany had a most thorough-going system of education, but a system that made autocracy possible.
They had revolted to escape from an autocratic government, and they sought to avoid setting up another in its place.
In fact, it may be easier to get efficient service under an autocratic government.
Nearly the whole world was united against a few autocratic governments that denied these rights.
Why may an autocratic government perform more efficient service than a democratic government?
We never thought of his being autocratic when Jack married him, but he seems rather that way to me lately, though he is terribly nice and I am fond of him.
Whatever anger Jack had felt in regard to her husband's autocratic attitude toward her, had entirely disappeared soon after saying farewell to him.
Germany failed against the democracies of the West, she succeeded against a government more autocratic than her own.
Apart from these conflicts of point of view, the Conference had infinite trouble to deal with territories which had been conquered and peoples which had been liberated from autocratic yokes.
To this the British Government replied on 1 March with a blockade which was more humane and more effective, but none the less involved an autocratic extension of belligerent rights.
No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
This war must and shall settle for all time the question of military autocratic domination of the world.
It was successful at first, until the old, old story of attempted autocratic usurpation was again repeated by the monarch.
In the first place, the autocratic power that now puts terror into the heart of the world must be broken beyond repair.
Upon the death of Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, Cardinal Giulio de' Medici hastened to Florence, where he was permitted to assume almost autocraticcontrol of State affairs.
Everything was within his grasp and everyone had to bow to his will; his aim was to be autocratic Prince of Tuscany.
Accustomed as she was to obey implicitly the commands of her autocratic father, she knew that she must submit to the harshness of her spouse, and make the best of a most unfortunate and embarrassing situation.
And when an autocratic reaction arrives, it comes with the same storm-like rapidity and ubiquity.
The corruption of provincial officials, which is the natural sore following all autocratic blood-poisoning, found merciless treatment at the hands of Gogol in his comedy "The Revisor.
The 'moral sense' is rejected because it means an autocratic faculty, entitled to override the criterion by its own authority.
Mill is justified in holding that a sense of honour cannot give an ultimate and autocratic decision.
He had used to the full his autocratic power in building up the German Empire and in making it not only a marvel of industrial efficiency, but also a stupendous military machine.
A down-trodden people enchained by the theory of the "divine right of kings" to autocratic rule, had to break the fetters one by one and gradually emerge from a state of practical serfdom to one of enlightened emancipation.
Yet most surprising of all was the great political revolution which converted an autocraticempire which had existed for four or five thousand years into a modern constitutional republic of advanced type.
Such was the character of the dread catastrophe that broke the power of the mighty conqueror and delivered Europe from his autocratic grasp.
He became engaged in a contest with the Assembly and aroused the distrust of the Republicans by his autocratic remarks.
