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How To Use absolutist In A Sentence

• Absolutist tyrannies are far more likely than democracies to breed absolutist tyrannical resistance groups willing to do anything to fight back.
• In fact, it was practised with great effect by Barack Obama during his presidential campaign - helping convince even conservative 'absolutist' voters to embrace a very 'systemic' concept of Change. Marc Stoiber: Innovate With Empathy
• DB: Well, right now we are seeing what we call our third level system: egocentric, predatory, express self impulsively, “to hell with others”—moving into the fourth level system: that absolutistic, one right way, ideology, -ism. IShift - Don Beck on the Essential Shifts (2006 Transcript)
• The other constraint on the absolutist interpretation of the sovereignty concept arose from Dicey's normativist conception of law.
• Democracy is an old governance just 2 centuries in resurgence from absolutist monarchy. The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
• To the absolutist mindset, breeching a principle is the same as abandoning it, and therefore any concession to differing views amounts to total surrender.
• Actually, Roger, there are other, less barbaric and absolutistic options… Think Progress » Former Bush Speechwriter: UN Speech Represents ‘The Collapse of the President’s Iran Policy’
• In this and other cases, it was an absolutist sense of superiority that allowed such heinous acts.
• The other constraint on the absolutist interpretation of the sovereignty concept arose from Dicey's normativist conception of law.
• Yet the wording of the amendment did not change when its scope changed; it is still written in absolutist terms. The Volokh Conspiracy » First Amendment Exceptions and History