- a bossy way of ordering others around.
-  a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war.
-  a rather aggressive and dominating character.
-  a swaggering peremptory manner.
-  a tyrannical government.
-  an authoritarian regime.
-  an autocratic person.
-  autocratic behavior.
-  autocratic government.
-  despotic rulers.
-  managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way.