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
“They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction,” FDR said when accepting the presidential nomination for the second time.
From Los Angeles Times
When the leftist intelligentsia split into feuding factions, Cowley and the New Republic obstinately persisted in advocating for Stalinism despite ample proof of its brutality and despotism.
Foreign policy becomes an instrument of naked personal despotism, with favors bestowed on those who burnish the leader’s vanity, and yanked away from those who decline to do so.
From Salon
Can that Huntington Beach teach the rest of us a thing — or thirty — not just about how to stand up to despotism, but how to beat it back?
From Los Angeles Times
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