At first he was most dictatorial and aggressive in what he said,but when he realised that he would get nowhere by that means,he began to sing another tune.
In open letters, former employees and interns of the paper the Southern Weekly accused the official of dictatorial actions in an era of growing openness.
In reality, he has a dictatorial approach to getting jobs done. He has often used the power of the prime minister's office to influence career officials.
Also, each of the city-states had its own form of government, ranging from very democratic — unless you were a woman or a slave — to completely dictatorial.
Once in power, Stalin dropped the new economic policy, which was too nice, and he installed the dictatorial regime he believed would ensure his goal of socialism in one country.
But he said that he and other critics of the government who'd recently said that President Salva Kiir was behaving in a dictatorial way had been behaving democratically.
Alexander Lukashenko, the dictatorial president of Belarus, sent troops to join a Russian task-force that is assembling on the country's border with Ukraine, possibly to launch another front in the war.
The North Korean propaganda machine heralding Kim Jong Un as a god-like leader, as it did with his father and his grandfather, the third generation of a dictatorial regime.