How To Use Despotic In A Sentence
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The country will swarm with informers, spies, delators and all the odious reptile tribe that breed in the sunshine of a despotic power.
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Many of the planets were run by makeshift despotic governments that intended to secede from the Republic.
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From the narrative it was possible to divine that Darvid had shown at first an inclination to milden the demands on his son, but afterward despotic habits and practical views had won the victory.
The Argonauts
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The bottom line in such argumentation was reminiscent of the objective of all despotic regimes to genuine political participation.
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Dominion acquired by conquest, or victory in war, is that which some writers call despotical from, which signifieth a lord or master, and is the dominion of the master over his servant.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
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Dominion acquired by conquest, or victory is that which some writers call despotical, from Δεσπότης which signifieth
DESPOTISM
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When this despotic middle-class cousinry seizes a victim, he is so carefully gagged and bound that complaint is impossible; he is smeared with slime and wax like a snail in a beehive.
Sons of the Soil
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Despotic governments conduct campaigns to win influential seats while developing nations turn a blind eye to their human rights violating colleagues in order to win assembly votes.
Thor Halvorssen: Renovating the Rules of UN Backroom Diplomacy
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Dominion acquired by conquest, or victory in war, is that which some writers call despotical from Despotes, which signifieth a lord or master, and is the dominion of the master over his servant.
Leviathan
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But what if the limpidly tutor to be a despotic maravilla blunderer, atonicity vet, calabura thunderer prisonbreak, increasing demurrage, hectogram crazy, and all tightly rijstaffel amnesiac of a guy?
Rational Review
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But the voice continued to haunt him persistently, besiegingly, despotically.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895
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Many of the minor German states were too deficient in numbers, boundaries, and wealth to have outstood the despotic ages of Europe but for those foreign alliances, which, whether resting on friendship or a desire to preserve the balance of power, secured them against their rapacious neighbours.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry
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In the first case the multitude usurp a despotic power; in the second it is usurped by a single person.
Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
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The despotic monarchy in France, meanwhile, learned that while it could clip coins and sell offices and tides to rentiers, it could not match the English in raising low coupon debt.
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He has bizarrely shown particular warmth to tyrants, as when he hugged Hugo Chavez with a broad grin, curtsied to the despotic King of Saudi Arabia, and rolled out the red carpet for the President of China shortly after the Chinese threw even the wife of its Nobel Peace laureate dissident in jail.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: As the Arab Dominoes Fall, Is Gaddafi Next?
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What must these men think today, these men like Benes and Masaryk who had seen their nation freed from those who held it in despotic control and given an opportunity to become a first rate democratic power.
The Ides of March
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And therefore it can be said that their comments were condoned, and that is why I called the remnant of the party that exists today the "despotic rump of maniacs.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
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Today, they are still extracting revenge and blood from a barren land that has been sucked dry by a despotic ruling class and its natural allies in Washington and Paris.
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These insurgents," he said, "call themselves Protestant Boys -- that is, a banditti of murderers, committing massacre in the name of God, and exercising despotic power in the name of liberty.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
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He is sincere, I am certain, _sincere_ even in his most despotic acts -- from a sense that that _is_ the _only_ way to govern ....
Queen Victoria
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Third, the acceptance of despotic rule and the rejection of effective constitutional limitations on government are deeply rooted in tradition and religion.
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In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 the title inverted the last two digits of 1948, the year when it was published, he imagined a world divided into three despotic superstates—Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia—permanently at war with one another.
The Great Experiment
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In Africa there have been unilateral military actions by states to overthrow despotic governments in neighbouring states.
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From a dimple-kneed, despotic, strenuous youngster, ruling the nursery with a small hand of iron, in half a year Drina had grown into a rather slim, long-legged, coolly active child; and though her hair had not been put up, her skirts had been lowered, and shoes and stockings substituted for half-hose and sandals.
The Younger Set
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No doubt, if we could create a despotical governing machine, a steam autocrat, — passionless, untiring, and supreme, — we should advance further, and live more at ease than under any other form of government.
The Paris Sketch Book
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It was the familiar despotic argument made by megalomaniacs all through history.
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Typical communist and Marxist crud coming from the Central American so called "leadership" that I call despotic scum who's main contributions to the world consist of tourism for the
Chicagoray's Views and News
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Even if other nations wished to act selflessly on behalf of the oppressed by attacking a despotic state, the charter of the United Nations forbids it.
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Sadly, many nations suffer from despotic, inhumane regimes, and we play sport with them.
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The early 1980s saw the most despotic assertion of rock-star whimsicality.
Times, Sunday Times
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On March 5, 1953, after suffering a deadly stroke, Stalin relinquished control over a cult of personality so powerful that it had fooled the Russian people into thinking their despotic leader a wise and noble sovereign.
Facing Up to Stalin
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In the eyes of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being formidable and of remaining gentle.
Les Miserables
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These countries demonstrate that sanctions often mean little to unaccountable, despotic, governments.
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Those Germans who styled themselves ‘patriots,’ the new-fangled term imported from France, despised these seats of despotic misrule and abuse.
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For a politician, there are few more glorious moments than jetting home from a despotic regime with imprisoned compatriots in tow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Warlike actions are completely so (for no one chooses to be at war, or provokes war, for the sake of being at war; any one would seem absolutely murderous if he were to make enemies of his friends in order to bring about battle and slaughter); but the action of the statesman is also unleisurely, and-apart from the political action itself-aims at despotic power and honours, or at all events happiness, for him and his fellow citizens-a happiness different from political action, and evidently sought as being different.
The Nicomachean Ethics
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He used it to entice young Romanians to support the increasingly despotic regime.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is true, as others have argued, that Byron personifies the imperial and despotic nature of Russia in his portrait of the queen, but this is only a partial rendering of a significant section of the poem as a whole.
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While the world holds its sides watching the perennial GOPutzes flop and mince around the stage in their chuckleheaded outrage, the American public (held in the desperate despotic party's thrall through classic fear and reward tactics) has responded to the situation by playing with their iPhones and consuming untold amounts of fried food.
Steven Weber: Headlines!
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He is stern and severe -- with fixed principles of _duty_ which _nothing_ on earth will make him change; very _clever_ I do _not_ think him, and his mind is an uncivilised one; his education has been neglected; politics and military concerns are the only things he takes great interest in; the arts and all softer occupations he is insensible to, but he is sincere, I am certain, _sincere_ even in his most despotic acts, from a sense that that _is_ the _only_ way to govern; he is not, I am sure, aware of the dreadful cases of individual misery which he so often causes, for I can see by various instances that he is kept in utter ignorance of
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
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I understand that to be an A level history student you need to have a wide grasp of specialised vocabulary but can i realy be blamed for never hearing the word despotic before?
[what have they done] the so-called educators
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The well-known reciprocal relation between a despotic orientation and the warlike tendencies of a group rests on this formal basis: war needs a centralistic intensification of the group form, and this is guaranteed best by despotism.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations
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One could argue that America's overwhelming nuclear deterrence, like Britain's navy in the 19th century, has been a source of global stability more than otherwise—and that Reagan's dream of missile defense which Mr. Taubman labels "quixotic" may turn out to be the real solution to preventing a rogue nuclear attack from one of the world's many despotic regimes.
Fearsome Peacekeepers
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Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.
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But, I ask, was a government, despotic in its constitution, depriving all its subjects of political power, and extending absolute control over their property and persons -- was such a government, independently of the consideration of its _abuses_, (if indeed we may speak of the abuses of what is in itself an _abuse_,) sinless?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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King in this context meant a ruler who would deal despotically with them, a governor quite different from the constitutional rulers of Europe.
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As an additional benefit, military spending also consumes resources that might otherwise be used to woo our power-base of poverty stricken, powerless, despotically ruled zealots.
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She is truly what may be termed a bustling old lady, and has a most despotic rule over all the subordinates of the family.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
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To promote, such is the perversity of unprincipled prejudices, the future welfare of the very beings whose present existence they imbitter by the most despotic stretch of power.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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There is not a grain of evidence that primitive government was despotic and tyrannical.
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One of the most overlooked man and nature interrelationship occurs when a despotic species of government collapses.
The Sign of the Son of Man
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his administration was arrogant and despotic
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In our society it is not the tyrannical regimes with dictatorial and despotic power that destroys our freedom.
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Through peaceful protests the people were able to bring down one of the world's worst despotic leaders.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the first case the multitude usurp a despotic power; in the second it is usurped by a single person.
Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
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Unfortunately, as the years wore on, he became more despotic and appeared to go insane, venting his wrath against monks and thereby alienating the powerful sangha.
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The river was despotic and barbaric, ruling over its subjects without mercy.
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Egypt another paradise, now barbarous and desert, and almost waste, by the despotical government of an imperious Turk, intolerabili servitutis jugo premitur ([483] one saith) not only fire and water, goods or lands, sed ipse spiritus ab insolentissimi victoris pendet nutu, such is their slavery, their lives and souls depend upon his insolent will and command.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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John Bull is hammering away at his iron-clads and doing his best in every direction to aid the aristocratic and despotic principle, so dear to his soul -- nay, which _is_ his very soul and self.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The despotic monarchs of Spain forbid the exploring of any new gold or silver mines without the express permission of government, and they have ordered several rich ones to be shut up as not equal to the cost of working.
Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
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In sum, the rights and consequences of both paternal and despotical dominion are the very same with those of a sovereign by institution; and for the same reasons: which reasons are set down in the precedent chapter.
Leviathan
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The Russian government, being despotic, is naturally inclined to be suspicious, and it has long been the custom to send off persons supposed to be dangerous to the state, to live in the intensely cold and remote district of Siberia.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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This dependence is absolute, despotic; but it unshackles as well.
Joseph Brodsky - Nobel Lecture
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In the past, the building of such mega-projects as complete new cities was frequently driven by the megalomania of some despotic ruler.
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That this power in the church is not despotical, lordly, and absolute.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Reiber and Richard Wortman, who drew attentionto the despotic qualities that undermined the Tsar’s liberal reforms—See Alfred J.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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The great increase of games and festivals and their enormous cost were signs of approaching trouble for the republic, and foretold the terrible days of the empire, when the rabblement of the capital, accustomed to be amused and fed by their despotic and corrupt rulers, should cry in the streets: "Give us bread for nothing and games forever!
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
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despotic rulers
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It is, instead, a war waged by a despotic regime and its standing army against a captive civilian population.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of despotic rulers who have perfectly cropped chin straps and like to yell?
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In the first case the multitude usurp a despotic power; in the second it is usurped by a single person.
Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
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Despotic as he was and became, Bonaparte always called theother Consuls about him before proceeding with the most trivial measure.
The Psychology of Revolution
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England instead of despotic Russia, it is doubtful if he could work out his discovery of the electrotype -- we say _doubtful_; for, as far as we can learn, it seems hitherto judicially undecided whether the mere use of a patent, not for sale or a lucrative object, is such a use within the statute of James as would be an infringement of a patentee's rights.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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Is my cash supporting some despotic regime?
Times, Sunday Times
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Outside the bounds of obedience are the orders or policies established by dictators and despotic satraps.
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Watching Pakistan crumble from a pseudo-democracy into a despotic dictatorship rife with Islamic fundamentalist extremists who threaten the security of the Middle East and victory in Afghanistan is a huge issue.
Iraq War Not Top 10 News Story In 2007? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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moved from a feudal to a despotic order
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Who shall avenge my wrongs on you,560 tyrant despotical
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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My perception is that democrats are power hungry despotic wannabees who are only interested in lording over others.
Patrick supports Kennedy's wish for interim senator
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Throughout the 20th century, the West, to safeguard its own economic interests, supported the most backward, despotic and reactionary survivals from the past, helping to defeat all forms of secularism.
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Under all his gentle suavities there was a fixed, inflexible will, a calm self-restraint, and a composed philosophical measurement of others, that fitted him to bear despotic rule over an impulsive, unguarded nature.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
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A despotic administration was supported by a parliamentary representation as corrupt as illusory; a church, in which spiritual religion was all but extinct, had sold herself as a bondslave to the governing classes.
The Grand Old Man
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Other critics, North and South, blamed slavery for encouraging an aristocratic love of luxurious leisure and a despotic temperament among the slaveholders.
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There are despotic and murderous regimes all over the world and cultures whose affinity for evil and hatred defies comprehension.
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Machiavelli was a chief target of the philoso - phes because he preached an amoralistic selfishness which promoted despotic arbitrariness.
MACHIAVELLISM
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The banking powers are more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.
Pragmatic Witness
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Never does one feel the imposition of a despotic “I” that St Paul identified as the very voice of the devil, but the benevolence of a friend to the truth whose ambition may have been, according to his own terms, to “versify the Sophia Perennis.”
Introducing Jean Biès
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The bipolar despotic p ig controls the stupid army and preserves power by lavishing favours on the barmy army officers and police chiefs whose hands are so steeped in blood that regime change would be their own nemesis.
Global Voices in English » Fiji: ‘A Christian state’?
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In later times the vizir was a black slave of Ghaleb, and much detested for his pride and despotic conduct.
Travels in Arabia
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At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule.
Politics
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Obeying no law, despotic authority was arbitrary, and its animating spirit was fear.
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All it has done is replace one despotic tyrannical regime with another that is mildly better in some ways, and much worse in others.
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The early 1980s saw the most despotic assertion of rock-star whimsicality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Autocratic, theocratic, despotic regimes allow no political freedom, all thought is outlawed, and brute suppression is the norm.
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The US is approaching what I call despotic, with police carrying out absolutisic policy in the streets among our children.
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