Sentence examples similar to at despotism from inspiring English sources

It is a golden age for the genre, from Outlander, a time-travel drama set during the 18th-century Jacobite uprisings, to Vikings, Marco Polo and The Bastard Executioner, which harks back to the era of Edward I. Then there are New Worlds and The Tudors, both looking unflinchingly at the despotism of English monarchs, and Black Sails, a loud and violent prequel to Treasure Island.

Once the tax eaters outnumber the taxpayers and can vote themselves an income, you have arrived at elective despotism.

"I learned about the despotism at the same time you did".

Obscene cartoons, jokes, songs and thousands of scandal sheets were the vehicle for circulating news, gossip and anecdotes about the ancien régime, from Marie Antoinette's athletic sexual escapades to tales of gambling, corruption and despotism at court.

Shorn of his personality cult, his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has tinkered a little at the margins of despotism, but has adopted a similar isolationist, autocratic style.

In most places, ethnicity and class cut across each other.Even where they do, however, democracy, still young in the poor world, may yet prove better at reducing poverty than despotism has been.

"Every state", Stirner insists, "is a despotism, be the despot one or many".

Mubarak's despotism is at least as despicable as that of Ben Ali.

So was that between the Orleanists and the Bonapartists; the former aimed at securing political liberty, in addition to equality, before the law and in social life, whereas the latter aimed at subjection to a military despotism.

Sure it was paternalistic, and probably even despotic at times, but it was a benevolent despotism and you knew that if you did your job well you would be rewarded.

For a brief time last year, it seemed that Kenya would emerge at last from decades of ruinous despotism.