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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was seen as an enlightened despot pursuing liberal policies in the face of dogmatic reaction from priests and landlords.
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In totalitarian states absolute control of information and the armed forces is the key to the survival of the despot .
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Qin was a cruel despot who burned books and had scholars put to death.
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The president is finely educated and is capable of talking like a professor and behaving like a despot .
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The world can not go to war every time a despot grabs a piece of land.
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Unarguably, the father in the poem is a despot , and the daughter is humiliated.
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Unluckily our moral life is too complex for any single moral principle to be a despot over all the others.
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Woman is not the passive chattel that the tussles of despots, described in the last chapter, have implied.