The Despotic Temptation

You know, that it's a despotic building it wants us to feel like termites.

Since then, the Kurds have suffered under the despotic rule of rival ethnic groups.

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

You know, that it's a despotic building it wants us to feel like termites.

They, too, are humiliated by their leaders performance and, more deeply, their vulgar despotic essence.

In 1917, liberation from absolute monarchy ushered in an even more despotic form of absolutism.

Medieval court jesters were often the only ones who could speak truth to despotic kings.

He will be remembered as an African leader of major historical significance visionary, despotic, and indispensable.

Egyptians and Tunisians are right to be proud of their desire to peacefully overthrow despotic governments.

It deserves better than to be dressed up in Communist or despotic garb to block democratization.

The people are ruled by despotic men of faith who do nothing to advance their country s interests.

Indeed, a dangerous emotional discourse has emerged, reflecting and feeding the worst stereotypes of the lazy South and the despotic North.

Despotic and corrupt actions are believed to be the key means in which Depretis managed to keep support in southern Italy.

At roughly the same time, five prominent opposition intellectuals living in exile released a reformist, not revolutionary, manifesto directed against the despotic guardians.

This bizarre brew appears to have been concocted in an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable the current yearning for democracy with Russia s despotic past.

Beyond the survey data, history has shown that liberal ideas become more popular when a despotic monarch governs people in alliance with a religious establishment.

Indeed, China stood with Russia, Belarus, and a few other despotic regimes in prematurely recognizing the thuggish, ballot stuffing Viktor Yanukovich as President of Ukraine.

On the question of debt, we are of course very sympathetic to countries whose debt may have escalated to uncontrolled proportions through their despotic leaders.

While short term pain is not unusual following the end of despotic regimes, long and protracted transitions can be terribly costly, requiring decades for societies to recover.

Today it is no longer possible to claim, as despotic governments have in the past, that the treatment States afford their citizens is exclusively an internal affair.

NEW YORK Does monarchy constitutional monarchy, that is, not the despotic kind have any redeeming features left? The arguments against maintaining kings and queens are mostly quite rational.

Medieval court jesters were often the only ones who could speak truth to despotic kings. Today, it is often comedians who claim to speak truth to power and to the public.

Indeed, for all the characterization of China as a despotic state that one hears from the political right in the United States, its president enjoys fewer powers than his American counterpart.

The story begins in the Iran Iraq war and that series of events that culminated in the invasion of Iraq by foreign forces, the removal of a despotic ruler and instant regime change.

He examines the emergence of three categories of political institutions the state, the rule of law, and accountable government, the latter two being constraints on the state that prevent it from becoming despotic.

The story begins in the Iran Iraq war and that series of events that culminated in the invasion of Iraq by foreign forces, the removal of a despotic ruler and instant regime change.

But this fluid hierarchy, an absence of written rules and organizational order, allowed the various seminaries and their different interpretive traditions to survive despotic political regimes and resist intervention by different dynasties and monarchies.

Indeed, that peaceful revolution, led by Viktor Yushchenko and Yuliya Tymoshenko, was a reminder of how enlightened Kievan Rus had been before it was forced to give way to the despotic princes of Moscow.

The persistence of a despotic ruling clique in Haiti represents a stern test of our collective will at a time when the human condition in all its dimensions is prominent on the global agenda.

On the other hand, the Muslim Brotherhood, thought to be the single strongest opposition group in Egypt, are urging their followers to caste ballots and vote their conscience but not to give support to any despotic, corrupt rulers.

China, for example, is a model of despotic efficiency its internal security system extends from state of the art surveillance and extralegal detention centers to an army of paid informants and neighborhood patrols that looks out for troublemakers.

They tend to be the most despotic and corrupt, not because poor people care less about good governance on the contrary, their very lives depend on it but because they lack the means to keep their government disciplined and law abiding.

It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained.

It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained.

The social values of our society, which has manifested in perpetual warfare, corruption, oppressive laws, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions, environmental destruction, and a despotic, socially indifferent, profit oriented ruling class, is fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality.