These kindred autocrats were joined in firm alliance, except during the brief period of Paul IV.
Pius proposed to the autocrats of Europe a compact for mutual defence, divesting the Holy See of some of its privileges, but requiring in return the recognition of its ecclesiastical absolutism.
If we cannot control our own petty autocrats, how can we ever hope to control the infinitely more powerful and resourceful autocrats of the Capitalist system?
In spite of all these dirty tactics the little group of reactionary autocrats did not feel themselves secure.
The intention of these autocrats is plain as daylight.
The first of these pictures of selfish autocrats is found in 1 Sam.
The autocrats who have been most conspicuous for unchecked power and limitless resources have also been the most conspicuous in misery.
The only difference between this method and others of the sort employed by Spanish American autocrats to enforce obedience lay in its purpose.
Dictators, however, steadily decreased in number and gave place often to presidential autocrats who were continued in office by constant reelection and who were imbued with modern ideas.
Nor did this first of Russian autocrats adhere to the Variag custom of fellowship with his drujïna.
Like the despots who were to spring from his loins, he had implacable enemies; and he was overtaken by the fate ever impending over the autocrats of the Orient and of Russia.
Germany knew this, and her autocrats carefully prepared themselves for the coming strife with the lovers of freedom.
Meanwhile, she'll fight for her Autocrats to the last breath, and she's got a battle in front of her that will take her all her time.
And when she goes the Autocrats will go with her, the Beaminsters as Beaminsters will be done for; life here round the Circus will never be the same again.
Even kings who are described as autocrats may be as much tied by custom as is any of their subjects.
But evenautocrats are tied by custom,[302] and in practice the right of ownership is not denied to their subjects.
To the autocrats of Europe he announced that he would regard "any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
In such circumstances, instead of coöperating with the autocrats of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, they turned to the minister of the United States in London.
He knew many of the autocrats of fashion when they first put up their signs and, through the advertisement and backing of his firm, many a Paris dressmaker now famous obtained the American clientele that was the foundation of his fortunes.
Few of the autocratsare themselves practical dressmakers.
It was then when the question of Serbia sank into comparative insignificance that the Russian autocrats realized that they had enlisted on the wrong side.
Where the German rulers had the intelligence to divert opposing forces and even to utilize them to their own benefit, the Russian autocrats fought them and attempted to suppress them.
It should here be noted that although the Sultans were autocrats in the full sense of the term, there existed in practice some ultimate check on their misdeeds.
It needed autocrats competent for the task, and in the absence of such it was certain that the State would take the road to ruin.
And so, on slight pretexts, or no pretexts at all, the war lords and imperial autocrats rattle their swords in their scabbards and let loose the avalanche of war on the world.
But when unscrupulous autocrats utilize this sentiment for their own aggressive purposes, it becomes a menace that must be put down if other nations are to enjoy the blessings of peace and liberty.
Peaceful processions, on their way to salute the Constituent Assembly, are greeted by a fusillade of shots upon the orders of the autocrats of Smolny.
Fancy a 'free election' being permitted in a country ruled by Prussian autocrats or a 'free election' in Alsace-Lorraine under German rule!
The Prussian autocrats chuckled when they found themselves bound by a 'scrap of paper' to the restoration of the northern districts of Slesvig to Denmark, 'if the inhabitants by a free vote declare their desire to that effect.
They will risk life for the State, though given a bare subsistence or a pay which they would describe as inhuman if offered by one of the autocrats of industry.
He cannot claim work as a right from the holders of economic power, and this absolute dependence upon the autocrats of industry for a livelihood is the greatest evil of any, for it puts a spiritual curse on him and makes him in effect a slave.
The more the autocrats of industry are federated the more easily can they unload on others any burden placed on them.
Should he wish for the triumph of labor or capital: the success of the co-operative movement, the triumph of the multiple shop or the private trader, of guilds of workers or autocrats of industry?
Indifference turns to fear and hatred if labor organizes and gathers power, or makes one motion of its myriad hands towards the sceptre held by the autocrats of industry.
I felt the neighboring presence of its autocrats more definitely and powerfully each day.
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