Sentences with 'despotism'
Example sentences and phrases with the word despotism and other words derived from it.
• « Outside the West, the classic narrative goes, there was despotism, stagnation and corruption, so it was almost inevitable that the West would eventually achieve world dominance. »
• « The Abbasid rulers represented, in short, a kind of enlightened despotism that was far ahead of Byzantium or the Latin kingdoms of Europe in terms of cosmopolitanism. »
• « While the People's Will expected the assassination of Alexander II to result in a spontaneous peasant uprising against tsarist despotism, nothing of the sort happened. Instead, another reactionary tsar, Alexander III, ascended the throne and ruthlessly persecuted the terrorist groups. »
• « Both sides engaged in abuses against the defeated enemy, although it should be noted that the control of political power by the Federals made their despotism more permanent and widespread. »