despotic

Their rule over the family was nothing short of despotic.

As such, he was the main support to his despotic regime.

Despotic regimes had tried to use me in this way before.

It was not the people who were isolated but their despotic Government.

There are only two kinds of government, as I have already said, the despotic and the democratic.

Not all of those with magic choose to be despotic.

Others might see this as a despotic move, you know."

"The days of despotic rulers are supposed to have ended."

What he heard burned his conservative, not to say despotic, ears.

This was all the more true of despotic countries.

But is it possible for the Egyptian state to control its environment without becoming even more despotic?

Which despotic leader has survived so long in a war situation?"

Another six years of the Taliban's despotic rule had gone by before things began to look up for democracy.

"yet again, the Chinese are happy to deal with a despotic regime without consequence."

Why are we so obsessed with this ailing and despotic country?

By the moment the leader grew more cheery and despotic.

Even the people wanted this (expecting some sort of break from the 50 year old despotic regime).

Over the years, it has been used mainly as a police force to protect despotic rulers.

The social order can be either linear or despotic.

The first growth, therefore, of the arts and sciences can never be expected in despotic governments.

Haiti, which is both poor and despotic, has blurred that distinction.

A despotic king might pass power on to more enlightened progeny.

The laws of the continental countries are despotic in their character and press severely on the workers.

I have been made a terrible example to this our age, how true that maxim is in despotic States.

The patriarchal form of government readily becomes despotic, as each person may see in his own family.