Sentence examples for despotic power from inspiring English sources

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.

Having brought nearly all Tuscany under his control, Cosimo used his despotic power to promote the country's well-being.

Sanctions will be counterproductive because the threat of international crisis is the Iranian regime's only remaining resource for legitimizing its despotic power.

Active resistance is necessary because it is the moral and political indifference of demoralized, self-seeking citizens that normalizes despotic power.

Archbishop Hannan, who has opposed the bishops' pacifist positions before, said that based on his experience helping at concentration camps in World War II he could back a pre-emptive attack on a "despotic power" like Saddam Hussein.

Brissot understood the war as preventive — "une guerre offensive," he called it — to defeat the despotic powers of Europe before they could organize their counter-Revolutionary strike.

Much has been made lately of the memory of 1953, when an American-backed coup toppled Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and accorded far-reaching despotic powers to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Nepal has known much of this kind of political turmoil since 1990, when street agitation forced the king to give up some of his despotic powers and accept parliamentary democracy.

Thirty-five yearsincece Iranians deposed the late Shah, Tehran's notorious Evin prison remains open despite post-revolutionary hopes for it to become a museum displaying the despotic powers of the Savak, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's brutal secret police.

They used arbitrary and despotic powers.