authoritarian ruler

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People may also consider the difference between the verbal performances of authoritarian rulers and of electoral politicians.
How trade unions struggle for autonomy against authoritarian rulers has been the primary focus.
Overcoming authoritarian social practices, not simply authoritarian rulers, must be the goal.
Authoritarian rulers will use an official language that insulates them from populations under their control.
It is perhaps a continuing victory of the region's authoritarian rulers that we refer almost exclusively to these democratizers as movement activists.
It is our joint responsibility to make authoritarian rulers believe that we take our basic values seriously.
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We are witnesses of the enforced departure of authoritarian rulers.
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