despotic

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• “As we continue to aid and arm despotic regimes in Egypt, we are also now sending weapons to the rebels in Syria,” Paul said.

• But President Obama would look despotic if he embraced this tactic.

• The shah returned to become even more despotic until his own overthrow in 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini.

• They created a system of government with checks and balances so that no branch of government would become despotic.

• As despotic regimes across the Arab world crumble or battle for survival, what lies ahead?

• The most extraordinary and despotic measures were adopted by acclamation to meet the fearful emergency.

• The manhood of Homestead rebelled: the millmen scorned the despotic ultimatum.

• Fascination is despotic; beauty is something more tangible and independent of opinion.

• Humble as Lecamus seemed to the outer world, he was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat.

• Each sect has endeavored to make its God a monarch the most redoubtable, the greatest, the most despotic, and the most selfish.