absolute rule

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As Arendt understood, the criminal state eliminates one of the final barriers to absolute rule.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2024

But monitoring groups say there are no signs of a humanitarian crisis or a social chaos that could threaten the absolute rule by leader Kim Jong-un.

From Washington Times • Nov. 3, 2023

The Heat know it’s not an absolute rule.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2020

Many an author has found the task of managing a public profile confounding and distasteful, especially after spending so much time in imaginary worlds over which they have absolute rule.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2017

Even at the stake his offer to abjure ought not to be refused, though there was no absolute rule as to this, and there could be little hope of the genuineness of such conversion.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles