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He was elected as a constitutional president, but quickly became a despot.despot = ruler with absolute power
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Today's benign dictator is replaced by tomorrow's despot.
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During his time there had been a rule of 'enlightened despotism,' similar to that in the reign of Louis XIV almost a hundred years earlier. (source)despotism = a system of government with a ruler who has absolute power
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In addition, though I had researched the facts of the regime, and events pertaining to Trujillo's thirty-one-year despotism, I sometimes took liberties—by changing dates, by reconstructing events, and by collapsing characters or incidents. (source)despotism = a system of government with a ruler who has absolute power -- especially one who abuses that power
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They think school's a despotic system of indoctrination, designed to crush the spirit and stamp out creativity. (source)despotic = typical of a ruler who abuses absolute power
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...peace that spared the despots and absurdly married the U.S. military with the same soldiers who had been the instruments of torture and terror. (source)despots = rulers with absolute power -- especially those who abuses that power
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...under absolute Despotism, (source)Despotism = a system of government with a ruler who has absolute power -- especially one who abuses that power
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In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, (source)despotic = typical of a ruler who abuses absolute power
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Thepapar risked their lives, and lost them in untold droves, not in the pursuit of wealth or personal glory or to claim new lands in the name of any despot.† (source)
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Sensible despots have never confined that precaution to women: (source)despots = a ruler with absolute power
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The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not".† (source)despotisms = governments with a ruler who has absolute power
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Sophie had passed the room many times on her way up to and down from the office, and had noted that the door was often left open—not a remarkable fact really, she had reflected, when one realized that petty theft in this despotically well-regulated stronghold was nearly as unthinkable as murder.† (source)despotically = in a manner typical of a ruler who abuses absolute power
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Still, she knew that acts like those were what separated her, Orrin, Hrothgar, and Islanzadi from Galbatorix's despotism.† (source)despotism = a system of government with a ruler who has absolute power -- especially one who abuses that power
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People being tortured, dementors everywhere, a despotic Voldemort, my dad dead, me never born, the world surrounded by Dark Magic—we just, we can't allow that to happen.† (source)despotic = typical of a ruler who abuses absolute power
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MY NEW NURSE is an unsmiling despot with a nursing degree.† (source)
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So while I slept the Hegemony became a formal entity, the Worldweb was spun to something close to its final shape, the All Thing took its democratic place among the list of humanity's benevolent despots, the TechnoCore seceded from human service and then offered its help as an ally rather than a slave, and the Ousters retreated to darkness and the role of Nemesis...but all these things had been creeping toward critical mass even before I was frozen into my ice coffin between the pork bellies and sherbet, and such obvious extensions of old trends took little effort to understand.† (source)despots = rulers with absolute power -- especially those who abuses that power
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