Sentence examples for despotism brutality from inspiring English sources

In this case, the battlefield finds were valuable because they pointed to a little mentioned chapter in Libyan history, when the United States actively worked to increase the size and capabilities of Libya's military, which became the source of the coup that cast the country into despotism, brutality and enduring disarray.

The drive-to-happiness is a drive toward the overcoming of a multitude of painful limitations by which the finite, corporeal subject is afflicted, which can include "political brutality and despotism" (VWR, 61/50).

"Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value," Tapper said on "The Lead".

CNN's Jake Tapper pointed to Trump's fondness for Duterte and other dictators and said, "Equating brutality and despotism with leadership, that's not an American value".

Whether their fellow citizens believe in these acts or not, there is a certain amount of circus performance needed to sustain the propaganda with which they justify the deprivation and brutality that accompanies despotism.

But the journey was fraught by harassment from the authorities; it makes grim reading, being, as Davidson puts it, "a shocking lesson in the power and brutality of 18th-century despotism".

And regardless of its brutality or level of despotism, full aid will be restored in due time to the Egyptian regime.

He presided over a viciously effective police state and came to personify a whole era of bloody despotism during the latter stages of the cold war (see article).The left abhorred him not only because of his brutality but because he overthrew the elected Marxist government of Salvador Allende.

"Despotism works," he said.

"Brutality must be called brutality".

Is despotism really so terrible?