Sentence examples for Caesarism from inspiring English sources

He himself was an autocrat in his own branch of scholarship, adopting a manner that his opponents labeled "caesarism".

He has decried Mr Berlusconi's use of votes of confidence to rush through bills without full debate and says the right is in danger of succumbing to "Caesarism".

The subsequent partial recuperation of the Greco-Roman world under the principate suggests, however, that Caesarism was the lesser evil.

There were several results: an elaborate and formal system of titles was substituted for the personal names of the Julio-Claudian emperors; there was an increasing tendency to insist on the inherent prerogatives of the principate (such as the censorial power); and there was an attempt to invest Caesarism with a hereditary character, either by natural descent or by adoption.

I will lead you.' That is Caesarism.

It is harder to spot than fascism because all democracy has an element of Caesarism in it, just as all Caesarism contains an element of democracy.

Fini has warned that the new party could fall prey to "Caesarism".

In modern democracies, Caesarism comes in a variety of forms: its hallmarks are appeals to the people over the constitution, the promise of decisive action against the ditherers and a limited regard for the truth.

Caesarism traditionally means the rise of the charismatic strongman, who uses military force to circumvent the constitutional order.

The alternative is the drift towards what is sometimes known as Caesarism – after the process's most famous exponent – military-led authoritarianism of the kind the Turks (among others) have been struggling to escape.

During the Republican primaries, the _Weekly Standard _editor William Kristol described Trumpism as "two-bit Caesarism" and called Trump "the very epitome of vulgarity".