Sentence examples for despotism you from inspiring English sources

No matter how high up into political despotism you can reach, if you go home at night and your missus tells you it's time for a touch up, there is no argument.

Sure it was paternalistic, and probably even despotic at times, but it was a benevolent despotism and you knew that if you did your job well you would be rewarded.

The letter was filled with the highest of praise, beginning: "You, who uphold our tottering country against the torrent of despotism and intrigue; you whom I know, as I know God, only through his miracles....".... Through their correspondence, the two developed "a deep and mysterious friendship that would last until the day [they] died".

It is about the politics of despotism, and how you function around an absolute ruler.

"I learned about the despotism at the same time you did".

"Every state", Stirner insists, "is a despotism, be the despot one or many".

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

Here is an analysis of despotism and the power of power - you're put in jail for 'little stealings', while for the big thefts, 'they make you emperor' - which has been considered both enlightened (it was the first American play to put the black experience at its centre, in 1920) and repugnant (a mammee-speaker sinks into the primeval).

Once the tax eaters outnumber the taxpayers and can vote themselves an income, you have arrived at elective despotism.

The Tunisian message speaks volumes: you cannot continue fighting what you call Islamic extremism by supporting Arab despotism.

In adulthood, Chekhov criticised his brother Alexander's treatment of his wife and children by reminding him of Pavel's tyranny: "Let me ask you to recall that it was despotism and lying that ruined your mother's youth.