Sentence examples for despotism from from inspiring English sources

Rousseau saw himself as unambiguously defending freedom from despotism; from 1789 to 1917, revolutionaries throughout the world took him as an icon.

That was the experience of Amir Ahmad Nasr, a young writer and entrepreneur of Sudanese origin who was one of the participants in this year's Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF), an annual human-rights festival that attracts brave and enterprising opponents of despotism from all over the world.

Indeed, reaching power through the voting process is easy, but it will be impossible to remove despotism from power once democracy and its mechanisms, including ballot boxes, have been eliminated.

I exposed in my last chapter the remarkable coincidence of the tenets of Popery with the principles of despotic government, in this respect so opposite to the tenets of Protestantism; Popery, from its very nature, favoring despotism, and Protestantism, from its very nature, favoring liberty.

He advocated a constitutional monarchy "as far removed from demagogy as it is from despotism".

The brave men and women of Tahrir Square had no need of one-substance materialism to free themselves from despotism.

Egypt's successful emergence from despotism is as delicate and critical as German unification within the West was two decades ago.

He seemed to have transformed the Second Empire from despotism to constitutional monarchy without bloodshed or violence.

"You don't go from despotism to freedom on a feather bed," he told reporters on April 24th.

Tunisia, which had been gliding most smoothly from despotism to democracy, has seen riots by religious extremists (see article).

It is called the National Dialogue Conference, and it is the closest any of the 2011 Arab revolutions has approached to a peaceful, broad-based transition from despotism to democracy.