Sentence examples for more despotic from inspiring English sources
They pulled strings like puppet masters and treated their stable (which included Rodgers, Kern, Gershwin and Porter) like benevolent despots, albeit sometimes more despotic than benevolent.
Further, a recent analysis of rates of agonism in relation to directional consistency in dominance interactions (a measure of despotism) among female anthropoids found a nonsignificant tendency for more despotic groups to be characterized by higher rates of agonism (Koenig et al. 2013).
Eritrea and Zimbabwe have grown dramatically more despotic in recent years.
And the founders believed the Spanish were even more despotic than the hated British.
They are making it even more despotic by putting people in there who have no real commitment to democracy".
"The mistress is prime minister, and is becoming more and more despotic, such as a favorite has never been in France," grumbled the Comte d'Argenson.
It would then refer the matter to an African Union summit in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, and later to the UN, a strategy apparently backed by the United States and Britain.They have long supported the MDC in the hope that it would eventually kick the ever-more-despotic Mr Mugabe out at the polls.
More authoritarian countries are using data localization to their own ends – as a means of control over civilian populations; continuing the status quo; and maintenance of a despotic monopoly on power.
Is European unification, he asks, doomed to go through a "more or less despotic phase"?
There are scholars who believe that Henry underwent a profound personality change halfway through his reign, possibly the result of a jousting accident, and that he became more paranoid and despotic as time went on.
That, however, is an invention still to come.For the time being, the ways of dealing with ethnic rivalry extend along a spectrum with, at one end, a colour-blind, race-blind and religion-blind democracy and, at the other, a more or less despotic system in which one lot sits on the other.
