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In her time, a small elite ruled despotically over a downtrodden slave race.
Tyranny refers to a despotically ruled state or society.
These policies can be declared despotically, but enforced only through a strong infrastructural presence.
Her father, a wealthy jeweler, was a strong-willed man who ruled his family despotically.
Substantial shows could feel incidental: immaterial grit in despotically whirring gears.
Brussels is annoying the public more and more and seems to be a mad bureaucracy which acts despotically.
In Galicia, critics say, he ruled despotically, manipulating a conservative political culture based on patronage to stay in power.
Walter VI ruled despotically, ignoring or directly opposing the interests of the very same merchant class that had brought him to power.
Aristocratically refined without seeming despotically overpowering, the designs complement the elegance of the choreography and the music.
Shah Jahan, however, attempted to govern the Afghans despotically and caused great discontent.
By the early 1850s, Belzu dispensed with any pretense of democratic norms and ruled despotically.
She explains how her mother and father loved their eldest son, Robert, more than their other children and how he ruled "despotically" over his siblings.
While in the despotically ruled country of Mozombia, Metamorpho is subdued and taken apart.
And he ruled--despotically.
Authoritarian states are high in both despotic power and infrastructural power because they can enforce infrastructurally the decisions made despotically.
His arrest freed Salazar and Almíndez from all checks on their authority, and they began to govern despotically.
I loved her, and I should love her more and more every day, that little sorceress who had so despotically and so quickly conquered me.
'Put it like this, ma'am,' she said, in a despotically reasonable tone of voice, 'how would you like to be eaten alive by a wolf?' '
The land is ruled despotically by the King and Queen of Hearts, who frequently enforce their whims through decrees of capital punishment and kangaroo courts.
It was recalled that Traoré had also promised political pluralism when he seized power in 1968, had gone on to rule despotically for 22 years, imposing a one-party system.
The change is most striking in the House, which spent weeks on intramural backbiting over the House bank and bitter Republican charges that the Democratic majority behaves despotically.
The ducal couple became permanently estranged in 1756, when Charles Eugene despotically arrested and illegally imprisoned Elisabeth's friend, chamber singer Marianne Pirker.
"The contractual association of free individuals," Ms. Hunt writes, "was now supposed to replace the patriarchal family despotically controlled by the father as the fundamental unit of the new polity."
On the plane of Gehenna, barghests "live in isolation from one another, each having its own stronghold and force of servitors, ruling a smoking rift despotically," according to the article.
The next building block, the rule of law, comprises the control of the monopoly of force, which has as a precondition that the public monopoly of force is not despotically abused.