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Certainly, there was the occasional despot who aspired to religious absolutism.
Celebrities, journalists, and other illuminati have long gushed with admiration for Cuba's communist despot.
Here's a case where a POW was likely murdered, yet they are the same ones insisting that we leave the despot in power.
They have been consistent in their demands for firm international action to force the despot from power.
So was John an enlightened despot, beneficently overseeing a realm of unparalleled tolerance and bonhomie?
Her father Daddy O runs Woop Woop as a despot, with the usual modicum of attendant corruption.
This comic operetta tells the story of a South Sea Island despot who wishes to anglicise his island by importing all things English.
His son should better be advised to deal with the despot carefully lest it becomes the jinx of both father and son.
Azerbaijan is run by a family dynasty, Turkmenistan by a despot who took over from another despot.
This brings the unwanted attentions of local despot Hatcher who, with his ragbag of cut-throat henchmen, sets out to destroy the heroes and nab the treasure for himself.
He can recognise a despot, and the occasions when despotism has to be checked, by force if necessary.
It is not obvious whether the moral good is served by seeking peace above all else, or risking bloodshed to remove a despot.
The world community has tried sanctions against that country and that despot for 11 years.
It is very frustrating when time turns a man who fought for freedom and independence into a harmful despot.
The statistical probability of a dictator or despot bringing his money into Switzerland is therefore relatively high.
Mobutu himself became a patron, or a despot in the sense that he was the ultimate point of reference.
Cruel and tyrannical, he consciously sought to make himself a despot.
As an advocate for hard times and the impending global apocalypse, I'm disappointed whenever a potential murderous despot loses his insane grip on the world.
But Stephen Kotkin's new biography reveals a learned despot who acted cunningly to take advantage of the times.
This is the sort of delusion that sets in when a despot confuses himself with the state after too long in power.
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A man like bronte in a little town with a tired little wife, and with inferior people, is a despot.
The legislator must purify them, and if he be not a despot he will find this task to be a difficult one.
Isn't it almost enough to justify a man like Rossi that he has to meet a despot like that?
The prevalent idea that the American hotel clerk is a mannerless despot is, me judice, rather too severe.
Or if there is a despot, 'tis the king's jester, who laughs at the king as well as all his subjects.
The Directoire dress points to another period of republican simplicity, anarchy, and the rule of a popular despot.
Until he was beaten he was dominator, arbiter, and despot, if he chose to be.
Had she been his slave, he might have become a very unyielding or a very heedless despot.
No cruel inhuman despot could magnetise with an enduring fascination multitudes of men and women as he did.
Rameses appears to have had most of the evil traits of the arbitrary despot.
We had not, however, taken into account the obtuseness of a barbaric despot.
Of course, Mwanga was a coward as well as a cruel and bloodstained despot.
He is an irresponsible despot, and the head of the feudal system.
My works showed what a despot could do with the resources of a kingdom at his command.
The Emperor of Morocco is a soulless despot, and the great officers under him are despots on a smaller scale.
Now there's just the permanent glassiness of a despot too used to having his own way.
Other arts were employed by the despot for the attainment of his desires.
He had dethroned the despot, and the honors were his by right of conquest.
Francia was a man of intellect and decision, and he was a despot.
Holofernes, too, is with her a pet name for any fell domestic despot.
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