autocrat

In his plays, you always have the autocrats, who want to control others, and then you have the purer people, usually younger characters, like Hamlet, who propose love, who pursue a humanitarian vision against them.

These reforms were mostly designed to reassure Sunnis and Kurds that Maliki would not become an autocrat.

Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation.

Nothing humbles an autocrat quite like the need to grub for votes.

Tunisia was the first in a string of Middle Eastern countries to go through autocrat-toppling protests.

But the issue should not be where a wounded autocrat convalesces.

It was the case with the agricultural communities of the southern United States, whose Mico was at once high priest and autocrat.

Humble as Lecamus seemed to the outer world, he was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat.

She has always had the germ of the ruler and autocrat in her soul.

The Irish Minister for Agriculture by no means rules as an autocrat.

It was curious how he was growing to be a kind of autocrat in the village; and how unconscious he was of it.