Sentence examples for the despotism from inspiring English sources
noun
Government by a singular authority, either a single person or tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.
Scott Horton captured the idea well in Harper's, under the rubric "The Despotism of Natural Law".
"I learned about the despotism at the same time you did".
Talk about the despotism of President Milosevic does not impress the Russian citizens.
The expansion of government, Hoover argued, would sacrifice freedom and liberty to the "despotism" of bureaucracy and government control.
Appalled by the despotism of Stalin, he eventually became disillusioned with Communism and was expelled from the party in 1964.
The Romans loathed kings, and the despotism they represented, so a family dynasty was not a natural fit for them.
His reign marks a critical stage in the development of the absolute despotism that characterized the later Roman Empire.
Not for Britons the ceremonial pomp and bluster of the French, or Prussian-style martial triumphalism, or the showy despotism of the Hapsburgs.
In metaphysics, Kant refers to "the ridiculous despotism of the schools" (Bxxxv).[10] When we turn to the practical sphere, however, despotism is far from ridiculous: it is the last, brutal resort for securing some sort of coexistence among people who will not cooperate.
Ironically, her own pragmatic reforms had smoothed the road to the enlightened despotism that was to mark the reign of her son and successor, Joseph II.
The enlightened despotism of the Spanish Bourbons encouraged Puerto Rico's commercial agriculture.
