Sentence examples for to despotism from inspiring English sources

Egypt's circular route back to despotism will then be complete.

Resistance to despotism, and the sanctity of the individual, he thought, began with the Reformation.

So they know that our ancestors surrendered to Arabs and Mogols but did not surrender to despotism.

A FEW days after the country's return to despotism, a reporter asked Thailand's new military dictator about a timetable for elections.

Calling this approach the "social cure," she examines how social networks can address some of the world's most recalcitrant problems — from adolescent cigarette smoking to despotism.

The article, which appeared before the citizen revolutions in the Middle East, was considered prescient because it predicted technology would empower citizens to stand up to despotism.

Protestantism is most suitable to republics, Catholicism to monarchies, and Islam to despotisms; the Islamic prohibition on eating pork is appropriate to Arabia, where hogs are scarce and contribute to disease, while in India, where cattle are badly needed but do not thrive, a prohibition on eating beef is suitable.

Social media has become a path to greater mutual understanding and respect but also as means to attempt to enforce despotism.

The killer in Kirkwood and the would-be shooter at the Super Bowl both thought they had to act to "check despotism" and "resist tyranny".

Across the Middle East and North Africa, millions have taken to the streets to demand an end to the despotism that has defined the region since pretty much forever.

On the other is the Ottoman-Byzantine East, prone to caliph-style despotism, to tribal ties and obedience to the chief.