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Discover LudwigThe phrase "despotic of" is not a correct or common usage in written English
"Despotic" is an adjective that typically describes a ruler or government as tyrannical or oppressive. It is not typically used with the preposition "of" afterwards. A correct usage of "despotic" in a sentence could be: "The king's despotic rule was marked by widespread corruption and human rights abuses." An example sentence using "despotic of" could be: "He was known as the most despotic of all the rulers in the region." However, this sentence would be more grammatically correct and commonly used as "He was known as the most despotic ruler in the region."
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With a nod to his two formative years of travel in the Mediterranean, from 1809 to 1811, he asserts that "never, under the most despotic of infidel governments, did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country".
Rhesus macaques are classified as the most despotic of the macaques [39], meaning they are characterized by severe aggression, highly asymmetrical dominance interactions, and a greater emphasis on kinship compared to other species of macaques.
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Balban sought to raise the prestige of the institution of the sultanate through the use of ceremony, the strict administration of justice, and the formulation of a despotic view of the relationship between ruler and subject.
The late 16th century and early 17th century was dominated by the influence of the despotic Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney, who was granted the islands by his half-sister Mary Queen of Scots, and his son Patrick.
In the play, the main characters the young prince Bajazet, his beloved Atalide, and the jealous sultana Roxane are the mortal victims of the despotic cruelty of the absent sultan Amurat, whose reign is maintained by violence and dissimulation.
The number killed that day, as China's communist government took back its despotic control of Beijing, remains one of the mysteries of the People's Republic estimated at hundreds, maybe thousands.
Over the next six years, he visits some of the toughest, most despotic corners of the planet: Africa, former Soviet republics, South America, lands of famine, war and general discontent.
And to one Baltimore paper, the message showed that the president was either "a disgusting fool" or "the equal, in despotic wickedness, of Nero or any of the other tyrants who have polluted this earth".
The Battle of Aleppo, which since 2012 has pitted the despotic government of President Bashar al-Assad against an array of disorganized opposition rebels, now appears to be over.
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died in December and had spent years under house arrest after a falling-out with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, once denounced the "despotic treatment" of protesters at the hand of the Islamic leadership.
"The events in Hungary, far from being a fascist plot, were a revolution by the vast majority of the people against the despotic rule of the Stalinist bureaucracy," Fryer wrote later.
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