Sentence examples for despotic state from inspiring English sources

In despotic countries, the situation of slaves is not that different from the situation of the despot's other subjects; for this reason, slavery in a despotic state is "more tolerable" (SL 15.1) than in other countries.

Egypt is currently experiencing a prolonged moment of flux, one in which a democratic citizenry is haphazardly emerging within a despotic state that rejects the possibility of any such democracy existing.

For this reason the ruler in a despotic state has no more security than his people.

The precise point of conflict was the yearning for individual liberty and the crushing reply of the despotic state.

Because property is not secure in a despotic state, commerce will not flourish, and the state will be poor.

Philosophie à la Voltaire also came in the form of political activism, such as his public defense of Jean Calas who, Voltaire argued, was a victim of a despotic state and an irrational and brutal judicial system.

The office was accompanied by all of the trappings and sumptuary behaviour typical of despotic states.

We in the west like to think the threat comes mostly from despotic states, and that is true.

Syria in some ways feels like the Iraq of old, and will probably be prominent on Washington's list of despotic states needing evolution.

In fact what we're seeing at the moment is that the greatest cases of economic development in Africa tend to be in very despotic states and we struggle, I think, at the moment to find democratic states in Africa that in fact are doing very well economically.

In despotic states "a single person directs everything by his own will and caprice" (SL 2.1).