Both boasted of their Marine tutelage and each assumed despotic power.

Christianity, he said, "is a stranger to mere despotic power."

Everything about the act of writing fiction is an exercise of absolute and despotic power.

In any case, the forces were so swollen that even with its despotic power of taxation, the Corpo government never had enough.

This work is the foundation for the study of the despotic and infrastructural power of the modern state.

The plot of the opera deals with despotic power and social injustice.

He reigns with much despotic power, including the ability to make judgments of life and death on his subjects.

In such cases, a state may rely on despotic power, or the power of elites over society, to gain control.

As civil society gained political authority in Western states, despotic power became less acceptable among civilian populations.

Throughout the region's long history, the various forms of the Chinese nation have relied greatly on despotic power.