1、Zeus was not an autocrat by any standards.

2、He was an accomplished politician and a crafty autocrat.

3、The nobles tried to limit the powers of the autocrat without success.

4、It is a cunning device to supersede the aristocracy, and make the king sole and absolute autocrat.

5、The emperor was an autocrat, answerable to none, like a Hellenistic monarch. But he was a Christian ruler of a Christian state.

6、Here, excitement never entered in, voices were never raised, everyone deferred gently to the opinions of others, and, in the end, the black grizzled autocrat in the kitchen had his way.