Sample Sentences for
despot
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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)
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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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    The wars, the suffering, the lack of economic progress, the despotism—all this was the fault of Israel.†  (source)
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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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    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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    But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.†  (source)
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    They think school's a despotic system of indoctrination, designed to crush the spirit and stamp out creativity.  (source)
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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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    Willoughby was rare—his preference to remain behind the scenes implied the absence of vast personal conceit, a trait essential for two-penny despots.†  (source)
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