absolute rule
Example Sentences
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As Arendt understood, the criminal state eliminates one of the final barriers to absolute rule.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2024
The Heat know it’s not an absolute rule.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2020
In 1975, after nearly four decades of absolute rule, Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco died, two weeks before his 83rd birthday.
From Washington Times • Nov. 20, 2018
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
"We greatly prefer," observes the author of the "Description," "to lay down no absolute rule of non-restraint, but to refer to our resident officers the exercise of a sound discretion in each individual case."
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack
