despotic in A Sentence

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    But they scorned(them) and they were Despotic folk.

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    Unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they scorned(them) and they were Despotic folk.

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    To win favour the rebels offered medical support to villagers and deposed a Despotic local official.

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    The Despotic ruler Snow annually arranges the“Hunger Games”, in which only one of 24 people must survive.

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    Though Emperor Caligula started off as a benevolent ruler, late in his life he became cruel and Despotic.

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    A refreshing Christian husband also will not be Despotic or tyrannical, making decisions without consulting his family.

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    studiously avoiding topics that might offend Despotic rulers or which might be seen as corrosive of faith.

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    Once a continent under nearly completely Despotic rule, and many countries enduring civil strife, Africa wasn't on the radar for potential travelers.

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    These days, China seems to be applying Deng's logic to its neighbors: It doesn't matter if they are democratic or Despotic, so long as they safeguard China's interests!

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    After his death, Gosse was portrayed as a Despotic father of uncompromising religious views in Father and Son(1907), a memoir written by his son, the poet and critic Edmund Gosse.

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    However, he lost in the second round to the engineer Alberto Fujimori, who then shut down congress and established a Despotic and corrupt dictatorship for which he is currently serving a sentence.

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    But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so Despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world sinces gods began.

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    But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so Despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.

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    Lucky, the shadow, serves as the polar opposite of the egocentric Pozzo, prototype of prosperous mediocrity, who incessantly controls and persecutes his subordinate, thus symbolising the oppression of the unconscious shadow by the Despotic ego.

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    Khama also condemned the action of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir in the region of Dafur and became a vocal critic of Despotic governments in Africa along with President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania and President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia.

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    I submit that no State, however Despotic, has the right to enact laws which are repugnant to the whole body of the people, much less a government guided by constitutional usage and precedents such as the Indian Government.

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    I submit that no state, however Despotic, has the right to enact laws which are repugnant to the whole body of the people, much less a government guided by constitutional usage and precedent, such as the Indian Government.

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    Another party leader, Ahmed Patel in a series of tweets said the 2019 elections will herald a new era ending five years of“chaotic, Despotic and destructive” dispensation and the country will return to the path of“sobriety, integrity and inclusivity”.

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    Such Despotic governance was an important cementing factor of the new state, or, in the scientific language, of a costly pre-class association, which, having fallen into the sphere of interests of the Byzantine Empire, immediately began to undergo erosion.

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    He presents him as a divinely inspired messenger whom God employed to confound the bickering Oriental Christians, to liberate the Orient from the Despotic rule of the Romans and Persians, and to spread the knowledge of the unity of God from India to Spain.

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    This made it possible for the colonial rulers to portray India as a society characterised by spiritual harmony in contrast to the former Indian states which they criticised as"Despotic and epiphenomenal", with the colonial powers providing the necessary"benevolent, paternalistic rule by a more'advanced' nation.

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    Renaissance humanism, particularly in the German North, became concerned with religion, while Italian and French humanism concentrated increasingly on scholarship and philology addressed to a narrow audience of specialists, studiously avoiding topics that might offend Despotic rulers or which might be seen as corrosive of faith.

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    Henceforth Renaissance humanism, particularly in the German North, became concerned with religion, while Italian and French humanism concentrated increasingly on scholarship and philology addressed to a narrow audience of specialists, studiously avoiding topics that might offend Despotic rulers or which might be seen as corrosive of faith.

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