Sentence examples for despotic rule from inspiring English sources

Van Artevelde's virtually despotic rule eventually provoked his compatriots to jealousy and resentment.

Reza Shah was a force for modernisation despite his despotic rule.

In fact, Caliphates were more often than not, established by force and maintained by despotic rule.

"Totalitarianism strives not toward despotic rule over men but toward a system in which men are superfluous," she said.

His despotic rule and the draconian punishments he meted out were dictated largely by his belief in legalist ideas.

For more than three decades Puerto Ricans waited for the despotic rule of military colonial governors to loosen.

Peter dismissed him after his despotic rule of a province in the lower Volga resulted in a major revolt.

These include Ulíses Ruiz, the governor of Oaxaca, who faced widespread calls to step down last year during months of protests against his despotic rule.

Decades of despotic rule by the Duvalier family converted the state into an instrument of thievery and repression; such creatures do not disappear with their masters.

Discontent with Abdülhamid's despotic rule and resentment against European intervention in the Balkans, however, led to the military revolution of the Young Turks in 1908.

Crowds in Green Square are cheering the rebels and celebrating the prospect of an end to Colonel Qaddafi's 40-year despotic rule.