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Перевод: autocrat

[существительное]
самодержец ; автократ ; деспот ; властный человек

Тезаурус:

1. Labour, post-Kinnock, is saddled with a fundamentally undemocratic trade union link-up; an autocratic structure, which, in the absence of the autocrat, sees power pass to the autocrat's (unelected) nominees; and a policy and decision-making process that is as devoid of inspiration and new ideas as it is of input from the wider constituency of party members and supporters.
2. His "arch-opponent", as he called Palmerston, was "once more the autocrat of England", and although he thought that Fitzroy was on his side, he was "sworn to uphold Lord P's views".
3. For a considerable amount of inconsequential information owned by the institution is classed as confidential, even though its release could only be considered prejudicial to the safety and interests of the state by the most bigoted autocrat.
4. The newspaper is a natural tool for the autocrat.
5. As relations deteriorated, Russia ceased to favour the eventual union of Bulgaria and Roumelia, and forced Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, nominally an autocrat, to accept Russian generals as ministers.
6. Faced with public anger about the Gulf war, the royal autocrat did make some concessions.
7. An autocrat falls in the first two books; but the only one in the third is the author-autocrat of the hotel room who sallies into the bush, as if on impulse, to visit the mysterious, moveable "front".
8. The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously: at one extreme lay Roger II, the would-be autocrat, uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian; or the English king, who, however tied by custom, had effective control both of the king's court, which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable, under Henry II, of rapid expansion, and over the old popular courts of the shire and, where they had not fallen into private hands, of the hundred; at the other extreme was the German king, much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities, and equally much was slipping, in the twelfth century, into princely hands; or the French king, who was expected to do high justice to all who came, but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain.
9. In a business world where "democracy" is in vogue, she is a caring autocrat.
10. In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles, including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family.
11. Later he inquired of the "elderly autocrat" how it was getting on.
12. "Chignell, you will collect Miss O'Brien's luggage and find her a porter before you do anything else," said the autocrat; and then the train slowed down.