The phrase "absolutist rule" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a form of governance where a single authority holds absolute power, often without any checks or balances.
Example: "The country was under absolutist rule, where the monarch made all decisions without consulting any governing body."
Alternatives: "absolute authority" or "dictatorial governance".
Under Mr. Hussein's absolutist rule, Finance Ministry officials forced the bank essentially to print money.
Absolutist rule, administered by the army, is not likely to end any time before the current king's death.
He was the leading champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation and of absolutist rule during the Thirty Years' War.
When the Habsburgs reasserted their control over Hungary, Transylvania was separated from Hungary and transformed into a Habsburg crown land, subject to strict absolutist rule.
While patriots and reformers found him too accommodating and conciliatory, in the eyes of advocates of the return to absolutist rule he was too liberal.
The real Fawkes was among a group of would-be bombers who, had their Gunpowder Plot succeeded, might now be remembered as having heralded an era of absolutist rule.
Yet one had placed his country on the route to democracy after five military coups and decades of absolutist army rule, while the other had put a brutal stop to his nation's nascent democratic experiment.
Absolutist kings ruled Southern and Central Europe for hundreds of years; but not Scandinavia and Switzerland.
History shows that dictators and absolutist kings ruled Spain ever since Roman times, except for the period of the Visigoths (415 - 725 A.D ., when something close to democracy happened, and the two maladroit republics in the 20th century.
The violence came as the Saudi authorities steeled themselves to deal with a mooted "Day of Rage" today, an unprecedented possibility in a country where an absolutist monarchy has long ruled unquestioned.
Perhaps Obama has realized that considering the complexity of the conflict, its regional and global implications and ideological-financial Taliban (and al-Qaeda) connections with the deepest souls of the Arab-Islamic societies ruled by absolutist monarchies and lifelong presidencies, the solution of the Afghanistan problem can not be military in nature only.
