“They have been consistent in their demands for firm international action to force the despot from power.”

“Celebrities, journalists, and other illuminati have long gushed with admiration for Cuba's communist despot.”

“Here's a case where a POW was likely murdered, yet they are the same ones insisting that we leave the despot in power.”

“The notion of despotism masquerading as liberation was part of the Victorian liberal stereotype of tsardom.”

“The struggle cannot be separated from the struggle for freedom of despotism of all kinds.”

“In a word, no distinction was now drawn between despotism, tyranny, and absolute monarchy.”

“Even before the great sultan Mehmed II, known as El Fatih, took power in Turkey, the Serbian despotate had become the booty of the invaders.”

“He places his latest novel, Despot i 6rtva, in the despotate of Serbia in the fifteenth century, almost a hundred years after the battle of Kosovo.”

“The Despotate continued on as an independent state by paying an annual tribute to the Ottomans.”

“Of course, history has been replete with despotisms and petty dictatorships.”

“In the modern world it is only despotisms which have recourse to the firing squad or the noose.”

“Though the Syrian and Iraqi Baath parties were bitter foes, there was consolation in that both were members of a confederacy of despotisms.”

“The Party's charter called for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, and its officials took orders from Soviet despots.”

“For the past two decades he has made something of a name for himself dealing with many of the world's most notorious dictators and despots.”

“I wonder to myself if the delusions of world leaders, tyrants, despots and even elected officials work the same way.”