(1) They smack of totalitarian despotism , and their quaint claim for absolute certainty seems anachronistic in this postmodern age of relativism and deconstruction.(2) Today we define despotism (along with dictatorship and totalitarianism) as a form of government.(3) Not only was their empire a military despotism , it was also peculiarly distrustful of any form of self-help, much less self-government, on the part of its subjects.(4) The more we nourish widespread ambition, the less we have to fear the overweening power of mild despotism .(5) The corruption and despotism of his regime are not new phenomena.(6) The German law is wider, as it refers to persecution under National Socialism or any other form of despotism or tyranny.(7) Stalin's paranoid nature turned the regime into a dangerous despotism .(8) Cultural sovereigns in their own right, Ovid and Dante, despite official exile from their native home, had made their poetic stand against tyranny and despotism .(9) the ideology of enlightened despotism(10) There is still a recognizable contrast with the European experience on the continent, with absolutism and enlightened despotism .(11) I do admire in that work your condemnation of arbitrary power and despotism as destructive of freedom.(12) the King's arbitrary despotism(13) This kind of freedom may coincide with the cruellest despotism and with the subjugation of the overwhelming majority of the people.(14) While the existence of dissident voices should never be ignored, the French monarchy was nevertheless viewed by the majority of its subjects not as a despotism , but as a government tempered by the laws.(15) Along with magnanimous Turks and philosophical Persians, the Chinese as exemplars of the world's greatest enlightened despotism played an important role in transforming Europe's self-image.(16) The primary cause of all this danger is the Arab world's endemic despotism , corruption, poverty, and economic stagnation.
