Under the economic despotism that prevails in American business, they are subject to the diktat of their bosses. |
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He stated that these additions would pave the way to a new religious and chauvinist despotism. |
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It is to be distinguished from his dread of a stagnant and spiritless despotism. |
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Unless appropriate checks and balances are constructed, we'll inevitably end up with a malign despotism. |
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The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 could be seen as proof that, as kings had always argued, it was the bulwark against anarchy or despotism. |
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We can see clearly the essence of despotism and the precarious nature of democracy. |
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After all, the 20th century was a time when the world sang the praises of despots and despotism. |
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But the despotism in certain dingy and decayed tribes in the twentieth century does not prove that the first men were ruled despotically. |
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They typically sealed their victory by unseating kings, although often creating a new despotism. |
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Some believe that the only solution for government in parts of the world is for there to be tyranny or despotism. |
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The German law is wider, as it refers to persecution under National Socialism or any other form of despotism or tyranny. |
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There is still a recognizable contrast with the European experience on the continent, with absolutism and enlightened despotism. |
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The notion of despotism masquerading as liberation was part of the Victorian liberal stereotype of tsardom. |
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This places limits on governments and reduces the likelihood of tyranny and despotism. |
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For it came into a world previously marked by despotism, by tyranny, by totalitarian control. |
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The best way to do this is to actively encourage its sponsoring regimes towards democracy and away from the tyranny and despotism that breeds it. |
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In a word, no distinction was now drawn between despotism, tyranny, and absolute monarchy. |
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While some have embraced democratic principles, others continue to rule through rapacity, despotism, and corruption. |
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There have been cases in which insurgencies have been defeated without either massive social destruction or a more-or-less permanent despotism. |
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The primary cause of all this danger is the Arab world's endemic despotism, corruption, poverty, and economic stagnation. |
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The struggle cannot be separated from the struggle for freedom of despotism of all kinds. |
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Like a jailer who throws you into a prison cell while slipping you the key, Europe simultaneously gave the world despotism and freedom. |
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This kind of freedom may coincide with the cruellest despotism and with the subjugation of the overwhelming majority of the people. |
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I do admire in that work your condemnation of arbitrary power and despotism as destructive of freedom. |
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The more we nourish widespread ambition, the less we have to fear the overweening power of mild despotism. |
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If enlightened despotism was a passing fancy, it must also be admitted that not all the philosophes agreed with the virtues of political liberalism either. |
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Not only was their empire a military despotism, it was also peculiarly distrustful of any form of self-help, much less self-government, on the part of its subjects. |
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Stalin's paranoid nature turned the regime into a dangerous despotism. |
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In other words, the United States, to satisfy the State Department and certain of our so-called allies in the region, must be complicit in the creation of a new despotism. |
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But it is noticeable that, even within the overall envelope of European culture, it is all too easy for despotism, of one sort or another, to become the ruling paradigm. |
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It is about the politics of despotism, and how you function around an absolute ruler. |
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Monarchy or republic, despotism or freedom, what's the difference? |
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Although some of his reforms were laudable, they were combined with strict curbs on the powers of the parliaments, convincing many that the hour of despotism had struck. |
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They smack of totalitarian despotism, and their quaint claim for absolute certainty seems anachronistic in this postmodern age of relativism and deconstruction. |
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The corruption and despotism of his regime are not new phenomena. |
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America was born in a revolution against Western imperialism, born as a haven of freedom against the tyrannies and despotism, the wars and intrigues of the old world. |
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The nature of the coherent-self is completely unrelated to the despotism of the superego and its guilt. |
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They wished to protect fundamental freedoms hitherto frustrated by monarchic despotism. |
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The arrest of Mr Gusinsky, no angel despite his courage as chief upholder of a free press, reeks of despotism. |
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Today, even ruthless despotism, as the implosion of Iraq, Libya and Syria reveals, is no longer a reliable bulwark against militant disaffection. |
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Iraq could transform from a dungeon of despotism to a lamppost of liberty, but that will never happen if Saddam Hussein does not comply. |
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He can recognise a despot, and the occasions when despotism has to be checked, by force if necessary. |
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It is made more so when those modern states fall into a despotism which combines political repression with economic stagnation. |
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Turkey has a particularly long tradition in this respect because it was at the top of the pyramid of despotism in our region. |
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We know from our own experience how difficult it is move forward from a tradition of eastern despotism towards a modern society. |
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He spoke the language of nationalistic despotism, not that of liberal democracy. |
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In 1979 the great revolution brought together all forces against the Shah's despotism and imperialism. |
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Hungary is preparing to commemorate the half century which has passed since it first protested against dictatorship and despotism. |
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This is so because, after retreating for centuries, despotism is on the march again. |
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Will the international community confront a despotism that terrorizes its own people as they bravely stand up for freedom? |
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There are no grounds for fearing that a similar revolutionary regime will develop into renewed despotism. |
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How sad it is to see that the opposition, despite the sacrifices, has not succeeded in wrecking despotism. |
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The post-4 June Liu Xiaobo is convinced that submitting to despotism is unacceptable. |
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It covers first and foremost the protection of the individual from armed conflicts, despotism, expulsion and political and criminal violence. |
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What are the duties of colored men in these Provinces, who have been forced here from American despotism and oppression? |
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In his time, in the ashes of world war, another critical part of the world was torn between democracy and despotism. |
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Rouzbeh and Trita Parsi on the revolutionary government's return to despotism. |
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In an intractable country, despotism and the cynical short-term maneuver are big temptations. |
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Many black men were gathered at the behest of Louis Farrakhan, the clown prince of despotism. |
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It is axiomatic that all monopoly groups, emerging from time to time, will remain the continuous target of the people so as to keep India free of despotism. |
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He wanted to free Europe from tyranny, oppression and despotism. |
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Cultural sovereigns in their own right, Ovid and Dante, despite official exile from their native home, had made their poetic stand against tyranny and despotism. |
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The Spaniards have become callous by the long rule of despotism, and especially of priestdom. |
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Henceforth, Tsarist autocracy and despotism would lie at the heart of the Russian state. |
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Denmark became the model of enlightened despotism, partially influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution. |
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The structures of those banks which still exist must be reformed and protected against political despotism and influence, taking the objective of financial sustainability into account. |
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His foreign-policy vision was resolutely moralistic and highly ideological, dominated by a dichotomous view of England as a corrupt and degenerate engine of despotism and France as the enlightened wave of the future. |
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And who, other than the press, can breathe life into this renaissance on the scale of the Arab world as a whole, marked as it is by too much despotism, lack of freedom and fossilization of ideas. |
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This separation is essential in any democracy, as it is the opposite of despotism and constitutes an essential guarantee for the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens. |
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Amid the wreckage of failed development, culture will surely regress into decline and decay, or fall easy prey to isolationism, brute force or despotism. |
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Africa also provides a rich source of inspiration for Femi's hard-hitting songs, whose lyrics denounce the corruption, nepotism and despotism eating away at the continent's core. |
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From his earliest age he started hating his mother for her despotism, her powerful and outstanding reign from the imperial throne, her dissipation and the suspicions hanging over her after the early death of her husband. |
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However, it did suffer from the limitation imposed by the initiation and it was undermined by the ego-self, who turned everything to its advantage, from the despotism of the priests until the orgiastic festivals. |
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The bloody-mindedness with which Peter the Great worked to death thousands of Russian serfs and Swedish prisoners-of-war in the making of his city exemplifies centuries of Russian and, later, Soviet despotism. |
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It is not hard to see why. What those popular uprisings demanded was an end to despotism, an end to humiliation at the hands of the powerful, and a better lot for everyone. But the turmoil has brought few tangible rewards. |
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German human rights policy is geared to protecting people's rights and basic freedoms worldwide and creating an environment in which suppression, despotism and exploitation have no chance. |
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Anti-democratic systems, such as despotism, one-party rule and military governments are expanding and governing their States as if they were a prize of war. |
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Instead, he will cover the period from the civil wars of the Year of Four Emperors and end with the despotism of the Flavians. |
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Looking back on Charles's reign, Tories tended to view it as a time of benevolent monarchy whereas Whigs perceived it as a terrible despotism. |
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Alexander VI now followed the general tendency of all the princes of the day to crush the great feudatories and establish a centralized despotism. |
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