Sample Sentences for
despot
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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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    Sensible despots have never confined that precaution to women:  (source)
    despots = a ruler with absolute 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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    ...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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    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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    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)
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    The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not".†  (source)
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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)
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    The wars, the suffering, the lack of economic progress, the despotism—all this was the fault of Israel.†  (source)
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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)
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    In Vietnam, the chain-smoking Catholic despot Diem is out of control.†  (source)
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    In such ways are despots made.†  (source)
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