It was a very clear indication, Ms. Sharkawy said, that Egyptian politics was no longer about "a process of 'democratic forces against despotic forces,' or 'revolutionary against antirevolutionary — it is purely partisan political conflict".
The disastrous political turmoil which has perpetually afflicted Iran and led the country from one crisis to another -- of which the nuclear weapons showdown with the West is only the latest episode -- has been created by despotic forces which have always had little social support.
They "extended despotic power over the style and form" of their students' work, attempting to "force it into a certain academic mold".
I want one of two good things: martyrdom, or deliverance from despotic power.
In no way could his rule be considered an exercise of despotic power.
Take for example the "despotic" power of eminent domain.
The books and the film, set in a _________ future where a despotic government forces children to _________ other children in a televised _________, has attracted a legion of young acolytes, who are especially drawn to its teenage heroine, _________, played by Ms. Lawrence.
The books and the film, set in a dystopian future where a despotic government forces children to kill other children in a televised competition, has attracted a legion of young acolytes, who are especially drawn to its teenage heroine, Katniss Everdeen, played by Ms. Lawrence.
And this will force despotic regimes that rely solely on petrodollars instead of tapping their human resources to stop repressing their people and to promote democracy.
Voltaire's public satire of the President of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin published in late 1752, which presented Maupertuis as a despotic philosophical buffoon, forced Frederick to make a choice.
