Organisers have urged protesters to "shake the palace of despotism".
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The tried and true approach to despotism is martial law.
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But as an alternative to local despotism, the West offered hope.
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Under Bashar's despotism his house had been raided by security men.
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He believed that a spirit of revenge could lead to despotism.
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This inches us further away from democracy and closer to despotism.
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It is what stands between civilization and barbarism, democracy and despotism.
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Before America toppled the Taliban regime, Afghanistan was a violent theocratic despotism.
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But we were not silent as he turned from democracy to despotism.
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An Enlightenment foe of despotism becomes the boy toy of a despot.
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We can tell ourselves that we can't be compelled to support despotism.
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But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
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Russia's long-standing despotism will continue, or at least so Putin hopes.
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Despotism loves a vacuum and our allies are now looking elsewhere for leadership.
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Historically, however, there has also been pushback, a rejection of oppression and despotism.
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His supporters say Constitutional checks and balances will temper Trump's actions and prevent despotism.
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What about the preservation of American liberties and the encroachments of bureaucratic liberal despotism?
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People realized that, on this crowded, hungry continent, democracy was more terrifying than despotism.
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More importantly, Hamilton recognized that Burr's dearth of political character sowed the seeds of despotism.
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The apologists for despotism may appear to have won the battle, but not the argument.
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He quickly added that his wife had nothing to fear from his planned little despotism.
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The United States has led international efforts to curb the growing threat of Venezuela's despotism.
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China slipped back into despotism, warlordism and (following an invasion by Japan) all-out civil war.
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Think of it as Ashton Kutcher's "Punk'd," only with sexual assault, rape allegations and burgeoning despotism.
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And, of course, the president has it precisely backward — despotism is the enemy of the people.
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She sat at a folding table and told us how to recognize a decline into despotism.
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And, of course, the president has it precisely backward -- despotism is the enemy of the people.
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And, of course, the president has it precisely backward – despotism is the enemy of the people.
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The essays addressed widespread concerns that a national government would soon fuel an era of despotism.
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It is often assumed that the limitation to a single child was an act of Maoist despotism.
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In the 249th century, Russian Westernisers perceived China as an example of stagnation, bureaucracy, corruption and despotism.
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Meanwhile, back at home, the Iranian mullahs exert their leadership through despotism and the denial of dignity.
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But something had to be done, and swiftly, to prevent another Mugabe from another 30 years of despotism.
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Across China, Xi Jinping is pioneering a technological despotism of ubiquitous cameras, facial-recognition software and mass surveillance.
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They are using America's shrinking moral authority as a cover for the re-emergence of despotism and cruelty.
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Nonetheless, it is not surprising that misrule and despotism, if not savagery, trail political movements that foreground conspiracy theories.
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Unlike many Slavophiles, he hated the Russian traditions of despotism and the Russian Orthodox worship of czar and throne.
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Out there — in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere — wars rage, drought crisps the land, democracy strains against despotism.
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This weakness for quasi-enlightened despotism in the global South stems from a visceral fear of politically disaffected masses.
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To these groups, liberation rarely means more than the replacement of some form of foreign occupation with local despotism.
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Perhaps that is inevitable when dealing with something so alien as a hereditary despotism underwritten by Leninist police-state powers.
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The more the West is on the wrong side of despotism, the more it hurts us in the long-term.
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Telecom experts know, however, that one does not engage in substantive debate with Wheeler — one bows to his benevolent despotism.
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Post-apartheid South Africa was marked by two glaring birthmarks: racialized inequality in urban areas and tribalized despotism in Bantustans.
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"It's state capitalism, which means low productivity, high corruption, waste and as a byproduct, we have had despotism," he said.
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The United States has targeted its sanctions in support of the human rights of Venezuelan citizens suffering under Maduro's despotism.
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But Dowd's argument is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and it would lead us down a path to despotism.
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The repressive family despotism into which Nicaragua has degenerated under Mr Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, is almost as nasty.
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Somehow, he must persuade Zimbabweans that he can improve their lives after 37 years of despotism and decline under Robert Mugabe.
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Vijay probes grand themes—tribalism, despotism, betrayal, death, resurrection—in exquisite but unflowery prose, and with sincere sentiment but little sentimentality.
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Of course, as with most policies, soft law could devolve into soft despotism by caging technologies rather than setting them free.
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The alternative is a drift to despotism under a bunch of old men long on outrage but short on everything else.
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But that nation's descent into despotism is just one example of a global authoritarian turn that jeopardizes the liberal international order.
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Tobias wept actual tears of joy when he learned that he would finally be allowed to flee the despotism of Scott Skiles.
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Boucheron invites us to think through how Machiavelli became synonymous with unscrupulous despotism when the real man suffered for his republican allegiances.
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The nationalist MHP opposition, whose support Erdogan may need to press through changes, said a presidential system would inevitably lead to despotism.
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In his fifth novel, a British-Pakistani writer offers a richly imagined lesson in how to make great literature out of despotism.
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JB: There is always the body politic in your work, whether it deals with feminism or the atrocities of war and despotism.
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The idea of an "Oriental despotism" based on a "hydraulic civilisation" was advanced in the 1950s by Karl Wittfogel, a Marxist historian.
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These illiberal European leaders are empowered by Trump's dalliance with despotism and by his indifference to the distinction between truth and lies.
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He worried that rule by majority could undermine the freedom of individuals, and called direct democracy a kind of "despotism" of the masses.
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George Washington warned that "the alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge…is itself a frightful despotism".
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The cultural experience in 90s UK and France for Stereolab meant tackling both despotism and exploring the artistic boundaries of living by capitalism.
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By fighting for South Korea, he saved its people from the Orwellian despotism that rules on the other side of the 38th parallel.
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India, for Cobden, was a "country we do not know how to govern," and Indians were justified in rebelling against an inept despotism.
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But what's a remarkable literacy rate worth when the only things on hand to read are state-sponsored paeans to Castro's enduring despotism?
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What does it say of the Christianity of certain evangelicals who laud the President and invoke Scripture while supposedly divinely sanctioning his despotism?
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CoupCast's data find that for dictators, the "sweet spot" in terms of political stability comes very early in their despotism—after just 18 months.
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" Over the years, Mr. Friedman's highly benevolent despotism turned the Walker, Mr. Eder wrote, into "one of the finest modern-art museums in America.
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Or did it come from a flash of pictorial insight into the persistence of despotism even as the world celebrated a decisive victory over oppression?
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His eyes are as dead as Michael Corleone's in "The Godfather: Part Two" as he betrays his former beliefs and moves ever closer to despotism.
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" CNN's Jake Tapper pointed to Trump's fondness for Duterte and other dictators and said, "Equating brutality and despotism with leadership, that's not an American value.
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So the main advantage of democracy to me, it is protecting people against two insecurities — two sources of violence: anarchy and tyranny, chaos and despotism.
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While the institute in Garching outwardly presents itself as the cutting edge of German research, young scientists talk of despotism, fear of superiors, and destroyed careers.
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" Adams thought it was doomed from the start: "To think of Reinstituting Republics … would be to revive Confusion and Carnage, which must again End in despotism.
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We are headed towards a more perfect union, not despotism and destruction in spite of the wishes of many and the lies of the influential few.
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The isolated czar suspected that Pushkin's popular poems damning despotism helped inspire an anti-monarchist uprising, which he crushed on the day he assumed the throne.
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Is there a way to make room for the reactionary mind in our intellectual life, though, without making room for racialist obsessions and fantasies of enlightened despotism?
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The Founders turned to novel and untested checks and balances to prevent the federal government from falling into chaos on the left or despotism on the right.
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Fantastical as his story may seem, it has the urgency (and chaotic despotism) of truth — if not always the particular truth, then at least a general one.
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The new authoritarianism in Latin America looks different from the military regimes, personalist despotism, or caudillismo (strongman rule) that characterized the region at various periods in the past.
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Yet the bodies that have washed up on it, almost in sight of the city's glistening offices and hotels, are a sign of Tanzania's sickening lurch to despotism.
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Before he fled Cuba, Rafael Cruz was tortured, which helps to explain why, for his son, freedom is always imperilled and government constantly on the verge of despotism.
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The spotlight cast by Khashoggi's killing gives Saudi Arabia, and the United States, a last chance to check a slide toward Hussein-like despotism from overwhelming the region.
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It is the horrible symbol of what has been for decades a gut-wrenching constant of Iraqi life: the disappearance of loved ones into the machinery of despotism.
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Similarly, there is no authoritarian regime called DEXISM, even though it is to be written that way; the answer to 31A's "Oppressive rule by absolute power" is DESPOTISM.
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" Even the Constitution, he cautioned, would "end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government.
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" The last of the papers, Federalist No. 85, linked demagogy to its threat to the constitutional order — to the "despotism" that may be expected from the "victorious demagogue.
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His turn towards despotism emerged in 1983, when he sent the North Korean-trained 5th Brigade to crush dissent in Bulawayo, massacring tens of thousands of Zimbabwean citizens.
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Given, Somaliland clans have largely managed to craft a political process where their citizens work and live in peace, in a region plagued with conflict, despotism, and terrorism.
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"America has always been a place where people fled other kinds of regimes that have tanks in their capitals as a symbol of despotism," Ben-Ghiat told me.
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Over just a few tens of thousands of years, we progressed to more intelligent tools, such as thermostats, and governance technologies based on rule-of-law rather than despotism.
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Roosevelt actually mounted a comeback against his handpicked replacement, William Howard Taft, while Hoover castigated Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program as "despotism" at the Republican convention in 1936.
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I know Putin and his abs will stir many good associations through 2017: of Trump, and fascism, and homophobia, and nationalism, and despotism, and hacking, and annexations, and Aleppo.
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They traced the Americans' revolutionary beliefs to the so-called radical Whigs of 21978th-century England, thinkers like Algernon Sidney and James Harrington, who feared a slide toward despotism.
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After all, mid-century writing that was meant to expose the despotism of both the communist left and fascist right should have become irrelevant; history was deemed to have ended.
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At the festival, Mr Edgerton cited the old idea of "hydraulic despotism": the argument that the tyrannies of the ancient East arose to force people to maintain fragile irrigation systems.
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In Rulfo's novel, the ghosts come to symbolize a rural Mexico emptied out by urbanization and local despotism in the aftermath of the country's bloody revolution and ensuing Cristero War.
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Neither riches nor despotism have dimmed the desires of the Chinese people for the rule of law, human rights, democracy, and the desire to speak and worship freely without restrictions.
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Miller shows how, in the absence of moderating institutions and constraints, the radical promise of democracy can slip into despotism, as it did in the wake of the French Revolution.
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
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"The goal of this boycott is to unite the Moroccan people and speak with one voice against expensive prices, poverty, unemployment, injustice, corruption and despotism," one of the boycott pages said.
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"I don't see how anyone can say America can be safe as long as you have in power a theocratic despotism," continued Cotton, a member of the Senate Armed Services committee.
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We were reminded that the Greatest Generation went to war because it believed that we were the good guys — that wherever there was oppression, tyranny or despotism, America would be there.
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He provided critical intellectual linkage between the religious fundamentalism of bin Laden, which he said was a response to oppressive Arab regimes, and the secular despotism of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
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"This is one of those rare moments where it is necessary to take a clear stand against the hucksterism, misogyny, narcissism and latent despotism that infect the Trump campaign," the paper wrote.
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It is a choice between a government of the people, by the people and for the people or "elective despotism" when lies, corruption and tyranny are embraced by the political-media establishment.
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It's a slippery slope to tyranny, my friends, and the Founding Fathers knew that the best defense against despotism was for every home to have its own well-stockpiled nuclear-missile silo.
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And he foresaw the possibility of foreign influence over our political system and the rise of a president whose ego and avarice would transcend the national interest, raising the threat of despotism.
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This was largely because of the writings and influential public lectures of George Kennan, an American explorer who returned from Siberia in the 1880s with horrific stories, mostly true, of Russian despotism.
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The "Third Estate" — commoners — forced it to turn itself into a National Constituent Assembly on July 9, and the deputies began transforming the country from a royal despotism into a constitutional monarchy.
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Two decades of the Washington Consensus, following many years of civil war and despotism, have not been kind to the Northern Triangle, the point of origin for the majority of today's undocumented immigrants.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Maduro on Friday signed off on Venezuela's 2017 budget, drawing fire from the opposition-led National Assembly which accused the unpopular leftist leader of despotism for bypassing the legislature.
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Putin has a free hand in what he does and how far he can go, whereas Trump's limitations lie in the democratic institutions that safeguard the United States against despotism and authoritarian overreach.
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This tactic is as old as despotism itself, and has been used recently from Turkey to the Philippines to Tunisia to roll back democratic rights and institute draconian measures aimed at consolidating power.
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It also turned a blind eye to Hugo Chávez's and Nicolás Maduro's despotism in Venezuela, Evo Morales's autocratic socialism in Bolivia, Daniel Ortega's authoritarian turn in Nicaragua, and Cuba's long-term communist autocracy.
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Recently I asked Waters whether he intended "Desperate Living" to be a study in American despotism, or whether, like a broken clock that's right twice a day, it has merely found its moment.
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He'll eagerly prosecute a pointless trade war against China, but when it comes to the millions in Hong Kong who are protesting China's creeping despotism over their territory, Trump prefers to stay mum.
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" Denouncing "despotism" in Turkey, he said reports that prominent activist and businessman Osman Kavala was arrested on Wednesday in Istanbul showed that "if this country arrests even him, then really nobody is safe there.
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If Beria's despotism is to be prevented, aspiring reformist Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi) will have to be the man to do it—but not before organising the funeral of the century in Red Square.
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Called by one newspaper "the frisky Wall Street heifer," Woodhull also railed against the "insatiable avarice" of "obese corporations" and the "despotism" of banks and railroads; she's a figure whose apparent contradictions feel familiar.
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Why it matters: The move has support both from Conservative and Labour officials, but has enraged the local government, which calls it "reminiscent of the worst injustices of a bygone era of colonial despotism".
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On Twitter, a campaign titled #ExMuslimBecause lists plenty of such reasons — for example, the despotism of the Saudi religion police, the attacks on secular bloggers in Bangladesh, the demonization of gay people in Malaysia.
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Triana is making the point that Trujillo's control of the nation depended on gutless collaborators, and in his performance Mr. Barber makes vivid the wages of despotism, for a nation and for a man.
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To hear the president's handpicked lawyer make a case for functional despotism, a case that it is clear the president himself believes, should have shocked them into realizing what it is they were permitting.
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The Economist's runner up was Sudan, another country that in 2019 took a giant step from despotism when mass protests led to the removal of "one of the world's vilest tyrants," Omar al-Bashir.
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Here I'm thinking of some so-called neoreactionaries, like Mencius Moldbug, who believe that democracy is "an ineffective and destructive system of government" and needs to be replaced with a form of enlightened despotism.
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Even though most Zimbabweans celebrated the exit of 93-year-old Mugabe, who presided over the descent into penury and despotism of one of Africa's brightest prospects, some are worried about the future under Mnangagwa.
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By using the Grand Mosque to whitewash acts of despotism and oppression, Prince Mohammed has placed the very legitimacy of the Saudi control and guardianship of the holy places of Mecca and Medina in question.
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But that also made the monarchy vulnerable to charges of despotism and wastefulness, precisely at a time when the public was becoming more outspoken, emboldened in part by the ferment of revolution in other countries.
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When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
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It is very much seeing what George Washington warned about—he said the ultimate domination of one faction over another sharpened by the spirit of revenge is a frightful despotism, and that's what we have today.
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If you listen to much of the media narrative inside America and watched it from outside, you would think that America is in its early stages of despotism and well on the way to its destruction.
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By teaming up with regional allies to fight endemic corruption and break the back of Venezuelan despotism with an oil embargo and targeted sanctions, the U.S. can make an unprecedented commitment to fight South American demagoguery.
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" Mr. Cheney once noted that in the 19703s, before the Iranian revolution, Mr. Lewis had "studied the writings of an obscure cleric named Khomeini and saw the seeds of a movement that would deliver theocratic despotism.
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Where the Marxist heritage, being theory-minded and principle-bound, involves the primacy of the text, right-wing despotism, being romantic and charismatic, is buoyed by the shared spell cast between an orator and his mob.
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A year later, she starred with Tyrone Power in "The Mississippi Gambler" and with Van Heflin in "The Wings of a Hawk," a tale of guerrilla resistance to federal despotism under President Porfirio Díaz of Mexico.
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"The Bastille was destroyed by a people in revolution; the people destroyed its symbol of despotism and power," Pavlensky explained at the time, in a statement released via the human rights activist and FEMEN leader Inna Shevchenko.
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"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism," Washington wrote in what's become known as his Farewell Address.
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For Vargas Llosa, writing has always been a weapon against both despair and despotism, and "The Call of the Tribe" feels like his attempt to beat back the waves of nationalism and populism now flooding our world.
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Seeing no virtue in half-measures, Moore seeks to overwhelm the viewer with material that ultimately points in the same unsettling direction, including a discussion of Adolf Hitler's rise and how democracy can give way to despotism.
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Tempted away from marriage by porn and dissuaded from shooting up movie theaters by Call of Duty, our behavior regulated by a "kindly despotism" of woke behavioral norms, we will all just keep watching Marvel movies forever.
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The rights activist Inna Shevchenko translated into French a message from the artist that she posted on Twitter: "The Bastille was destroyed by a people in revolution; the people destroyed its symbol of despotism and power," it said.
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It took just hours to begin witnessing the injury and suffering this ban inflicts on families that had every reason to believe they had outrun carnage and despotism in their homelands to arrive in a singularly hopeful nation.
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When protests against his despotism sprouted up in the wake of Arab Spring in 2011, he cracked down violently, sparking a civil war that has lasted five years, killed some 430,000 people, and created nearly 5 million refugees.
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" Time will tell, Mr. Stephens said, whether the arrests signal a slide into despotism or "whether we will look back and say Mohammed bin Salman is the one guy who saw the wall coming and managed to hurdle it.
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But Deneen comes as a Jeremiah to announce that Tocqueville's fear that liberalism would eventually dissolve all these inheritances, leaving only a selfish individualism and soft bureaucratic despotism locked in a strange embrace, may now fully be upon us.
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" The guide could have learned that point in the class that Dr. Rahe taught last fall, a deep dive into Montesquieu, Rousseau and Tocqueville with the suggestive title drawn from one of the professor's books: "Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift.
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"The Bastille was destroyed by a people in revolution; the people destroyed its symbol of despotism and power," Pavlensky explained at the time of his "Lighting" action, in a statement released via the human rights activist and FEMEN leader Inna Shevchenko.
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Only a few years after the death of Francisco Franco and the reintroduction of democracy to Spain, both still smarted from the sting of despotism and the repression of their language, culture and political freedoms over the course of several decades.
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What matters is that a woman whose name has been synonymous with human rights for a generation, a woman who showed unflinching courage in the face of despotism, has continued an utterly unacceptable policy of the military rulers she succeeded.
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Like the architect of the French "terrors," Maximilien de Robespierre, who referred to "liberty's despotism" without a hint of contradiction, our schools refer to protecting the rights of students from hostile environments by denying them rights to fair investigations and trials.
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Three years later, that list of potentates and aspiring populists now reads like a Trump-led Coalition of the Killing, and its thesis—that we are already neck-deep in a global age of conspicuously unenlightened despotism—is now conventional wisdom.
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As Jefferson stated, "when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty" to take immediate action to repel the danger.
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A precipitous drawdown from Afghanistan may well have calamitous consequences in the short run, exacerbating the exodus of refugees and expanding the area of ungoverned territory in which extremist groups could once again subject Afghans to despotism and plot attacks on the West.
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And that's perilously close to where we are -- as George Washington warned us in his 1796 farewell address more than 200 years ago: "The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge ... is itself a frightful despotism."
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It involved women's rights; the civil rights movement; anti-authoritarianism in all forms; the spread of liberal democratic practices into formerly communist European states; and the Arab uprising — now largely dashed — against despotism and for the personal agency that only freedom offers.
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Even if that did not go as far as the theocratic despotism of their pre-2001 government, it would mark a profound setback to women's rights and civil liberties, not to mention a shock to the rent-seeking privileges of Afghanistan's current crop of politicians.
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Mozart's finale celebrates the magnanimity of the pasha as a way of flattering the Austrian Hapsburg emperor (who was actually in the audience at the Vienna premiere), with an opera that offered a model of enlightened despotism relevant to Muslim and Christian rulers alike.
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" In words which appear hauntingly appropriate to the current political moment, he further warned, "The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge ... which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
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Now that the 2015 nuclear agreement has been formally abandoned by both the United States and Iran, and an assertive new generation of autocrats is taking over the Arabian Peninsula, it is far from clear whether the Omani sultan's singular brand of cosmopolitan despotism can survive him.
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Now, aged 23.5, La Libertad's native son looks certain to win an election on Sunday, lauded by voters who enjoy some of the lowest crime levels in Central America and appear unfazed by opposition warnings that Ortega's tight grip on the levers of power mark a slide toward despotism.
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" Franklin was blunter in forecasting the moment we are now in: He believed that the American experiment in self-government "can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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"Iraq reclaimed its lands, and the people reclaimed their will, and the citizens reclaimed their dignity, and all of us said no to terrorism and no to extremism and no to despotism, and we said yes to Iraq and yes to civilization and yes to citizenship," he said.
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Senator Flake is absolutely correct that American liberty is predicated on truth: "We hold these truths to be self-evident…" Those truths about man's equal rights by nature, along with some facts "submitted to a candid world," brought them to see the difference between real despotism and human freedom.
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" This "despotism" is achieved through systematic lying to the public, vilification of the opposition and, as James Fenimore Cooper wrote in an essay on demagogues, a claimed right to disregard "the Constitution and the laws" in pursuing what the demagogue judges to be the "interests of the people.
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In the centuries since his rise and grisly fall, he has been regarded as a pragmatic arch-bureaucrat; a Machiavellian eminence whose machinations enabled Henry's break with the church of Rome and the king's despotism; a jumped-up thug bent on self-advancement; or the principled architect of the parliamentary system.
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If the Constitution was designed to be a firewall against despotism, then Article I, which defines the powers of the Senate and the House of Representatives, is its keystone, keeping decisions over spending, taxation, and other major policies close to the people and out of the hands of any single ruler.
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" On this week's podcast, Wolfe discusses an "underlying problem" in American politics, which he calls a "penchant for despotism, for something resembling populism; a search for quick answers; an almost visceral turning away from thoughtfulness, from reason, from understanding that politics is just simply not capable of satisfying people's immediate emotions.
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This faux-savvy posture was and remains an abdication of both political and moral responsibility, particularly when the president isn't just a criminal, but is actively using government power to entrench racialized despotism—even if permitting him to go ahead and do so is electorally advantageous over the near term.
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Editorial After clinging ferociously to power for 37 years, brutalizing anyone who challenged his despotism as his nation's economy collapsed, President Robert Mugabe may have finally lost his grip on Zimbabwe over what he did for love, pushing aside a comrade from the liberation struggle to set up his wife as his successor.
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"When it comes to this," as Abraham Lincoln put it in a famous rebuke to anti-immigrant nativists of the 1850s, "I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
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His administration's bipartisan swagger looked more like petty despotism after it was alleged that aides had closed lanes on a bridge into New York City to trigger a massive traffic jam, as punishment for a local Democratic mayor who declined to endorse the governor's re-election campaign (Mr Christie denies any knowledge of such antics).
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Ms. Bensedrine said that she would travel around the country to make the report public but added that it would depend on human rights associations, which have developed a strong voice since the Tunisian revolution and are often seen as a safeguard against the return of despotism, to take up the work of transitional justice.
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Authoritarianism in America" (March 18), Andrew Sullivan concludes with this thought: "Franklin was blunter in forecasting the moment we are now in: He believed that the American experiment in self-government 'can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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If you then asked a left-wing misandrist to do the same sort of parody in reverse, you'd end up with something like the online far-right — nerds and autodidacts obsessed with cuckoldry, fascist cosplayers eager for evidence of their own racial superiority, would-be lotharios furious at feminism, libertarians with a ten-point case for despotism.
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If their focus is largely pastoral, it is never entirely so, and almost alone among recent popes, he has proved unafraid to advance concerns that have been sounded before — those affecting the family, the poor and the disadvantaged, those caught up in war and despotism — but with an urgency that enjoins not only new practice but also reconsidered thinking.
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In 1776, this nation was founded on the basis of a bedrock belief in a revolutionary assumption: that all men are created equal and have the inalienable right to life, liberty and property; are entitled to live free of arbitrary rule; and, most important, are endowed with the right to govern themselves — and to take immediate action against despotism.
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The danger of despotism is on display in the Russia of Vladimir Putin — invader of Ukraine, meddler in foreign democracies, accused political assassin, brazen liar and proud son of the K.G.B. Putin has just been re-elected to a new six-year term, while in Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, a ruthless ideologue, is poised to triumph in sham balloting next month.
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The "Brussels" against which British voters rebelled is not the "absolute Despotism" that the authors of the Declaration of Independence broke with, but a bureaucracy answerable to 28 contentious governments that has never constrained British sovereignty in defense or fiscal policy, or in dealing with refugees from outside the E.U. And as the Britons will soon realize to their regret, they benefited handsomely from participating in a large common market.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright decried on Friday what she deemed was President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's isolationist approach to international affairs and failure to curb the spread of despotism around the world.
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In the United States, the checks and balances included by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution to protect against despotism did not prevent the voters and the Electoral College from choosing as their president and commander-in-chief a shameless demagogue boasting of his contempt for the constitutional principles of rule of law and the separation of powers, praising Russian President Vladimir Putin to beat Hillary Clinton – the same Putin that U.S. intelligence agencies blame for cyber attacks on her private email to damage her candidacy.
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