despotism

Example Sentences

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However, the party said it was proud that Tchiroma Bakary could find "safe sanctuary" in The Gambia, adding that it was fully aware of how "despotism operates and how dissenters are treated".

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

We recognize that everyone has equal rights under the law, we are and have been the beacon that cuts through the fog of theocracy, despotism and political malignancy.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2023

I had spent time in Iraq and knew so many Iraqis like Salam who had suffered under his despotism — and who wanted him gone.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Plagues, droughts, floods, toxic air and water, wars, massacres, famines, earthquakes, heat waves, wildfires, recessions, dust storms, despotism — slow-motion nightmares are crashing into fast-moving catastrophes, each one amplifying the next.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

Her gentle efforts to guide the hand of destiny, by decoying her master with fertile tricks or by reticent considerations these had not bean strong enough to be recognized in the despotism of fife.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White