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Examples include the awarding of government contracts without open bidding, arbitrary tax breaks, and the issuance of government licenses or mining concessions to friends.
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15 hours ago · Examples of despot in a Sentence. He was a successful basketball coach, but many people regarded him as a petty despot. The company is run by a benevolent ...
5 days ago · the rule of a despot (= a ruler with unlimited power, often one who is unfair and cruel): After years of despotism, the country is now moving toward democracy.
14 hours ago · Example Sentences · In reality they were abandoned to poverty under the rule of despotic local leaders. · Trump can't do all the things that have enabled him to ...
5 days ago · a person, especially a ruler, who has unlimited power over other people, and often uses it unfairly and cruelly.
11 hours ago · Example Sentences · In reality they were abandoned to poverty under the rule of despotic local leaders. · Trump can't do all the things that have enabled him to ...
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3 days ago · Union of Soviet Socialist Republics · 1953 · Vladimir Lenin (disputed, see above) Joseph Stalin · All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) ; Kingdom of Italy · 1925 ...
2 days ago · government by a tyrant or tyrants; despotism. similarly oppressive and unjust government by more than one person · arbitrary, unreasonable, or despotic behaviour ...
6 days ago · The governments of China, Egypt, Peru and Empress Catherine II were regarded as models of Enlightened Despotism, admired by such figures as Diderot, D'Alembert ...
4 days ago · Despotic governments include even highly institutionalized forms of rule in which the entity at the apex of the power structure (such as a king, a junta, or a ...
