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However, it would be wrong to think that this made Chinese governance arbitrary, irrational, or despotic.

" Totalitarianism strives not toward despotic rule over men but toward a system in which men are superfluous, " she said.

Such enterprises require great central power for the mobilization of labor, and characteristically issue in a despotic form of order.

despotic control was more important than economic prosperity , or even military strength .

we have every reason to take such a despotic and mysterious project with the severest skepticism, and to appeal for independent audit on it.

Zimbabwe's despotic leader, a man of puzzlingly different identities, is a past master at holding on.

autocratic: despotic, completely free from constitutional or other restraint.

She was smothered by his despotic power.

Mr Tsvangirai's decision to get into bed with the despotic Mr Mugabe has been much criticised, not least in his own party.

I maintain our love by the humble posture, actually let you be used to it overbearing such despotic.

You watched Trainspotting over and over, and you became addicted to drugs, and chairmanship, as they were equally despotic.

Perhaps the writer should have no despotic power over his creations, however slight they are.

His thought of opposing tyrant and despotic rule is of positive social significance.

Or for the 300th anniversary of the Glorious Revolution, marking the overthrow of a despotic monarch?

Political parties and civic institutions were weakened and legitimate protest squelched, often brutally, by the despotic Mr Conte.

I assumed all the violent, despotic, spontaneous, dangerous crowds on TV and in films must be elsewhere.

Ambition in the regions of a despotic and luxurious court was but the contest of flattery and craft.

However, they also say the despotic rule of the Communist Party is the biggest obstacle to China's further development.

She accuses the Russian leaders in domestic trend dictatorship despotic , even more has aggressiveness outward.

Africa often enters the global imagination through news accounts of ethnic war, famine, and despotic political regimes.

The love that had taken such despotic possession of Bertha's heart could not be overthrown by any sudden means.

Still, perhaps openly embracing the despotic crossover in a video game is the way forward.

The evolving Middle East, where despotic Islamism is well past its ideological zenith, demands it.

In 1898, these scholars tried to limit the despotic powers of the Manchus by a series of mild reforms.

Germans tolerated their archaic government so long as the brilliant and despotic Bismarck was in charge.

China does exercise influence over the Kims' despotic rule.

The dramatic scenes in Tripoli are already being seized upon by those keen to depose other despotic regimes.

There are military caps, postcards from inside North Korea, pictures of its despotic leader Kim Jong-il.

Cultural and intellectual tyranny is the foundation of despotic violence.

China did have a brief opportunity to join in, but their despotic government regarded shipping as a threat and largely banned it.

He was despotic , and she liked freedom; he was worldly, and she, perhaps, romantic.

But even the most despotic rulers cannot arbitrarily control either men or events.

She become SO morose and despotic, that her rule become intolerable.

He is utterly despotic to his subordinates.

There is a proverb in Italy called: let money become our loyal servant, otherwise, it will become an imperious and despotic master.

True knights, chaste dames, huge giants, kings despotic.

A despotic sultan who was blind in one eye invited three artists to paint his picture.

How right you are to affirm our "long-standing practice" of despotic rule.

In order to prevent the establishment of a despotic regime, Kant demanded a separation of powers.

It is sometimes the emperor or the king or other despotic governor who rule the people at their own will.

we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic.

Our headmaster is a despotic person.

Guinea's despotic president, Lansana Conte, died on December 22nd after 24 years in power.

Mother-in-law strong trend, despotic, because Dahua harassed the life to lose the foreword, but was annoyed.

In the end, dictators, however unpopular, despotic and incompetent, rarely fall because they have too many enemies.

As a result, the people under this despotic policy explode themselves in order to express their dudgeon against American insult.

He had much to answer for: both at home, where thousands of Libyans were tortured and executed under his despotic rule;

Developed in future should not be complacent , as arrogant and despotic than fish in the moat suffer, or bear the brunt of your own;

A sealed and monstrously unjust society is changing in ways its despotic ruler may not be able to control

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