absolute power
Example Sentences
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Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo now hold absolute power over the country.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
But time and again the poisonous isolation that absolute power imposes on its wielders blunted the edge of their insight and degraded the capacity of their societies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
He saw King George III’s rule as the epitome of tyranny, and warned that “a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025
This is the type of monarchy embodied by Prince Carlo’s Bourbon ancestor, that very same Louis XIV who ruled by divine right and sought absolute power.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2024
The English historian Lord Acton famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
