Despotism used in a sentence

Despotism in a sentence as a noun

Among those we don't trust, openness is necessary to avoid despotism.

Why do we need a government to legislate what Women can or cannot do when Nature will determine this all on her own?What an odd think to say. It's the nature of humans to form government, and the most natural one is despotism.

We routinely go so far as to intervene in international conflicts in order to tip the scales in disfavor of despotism.

The USG could tomorrow transform itself into a despotism dedicated to the proposition that all men should wear loincloths made of cheese curds.

In the Snowden video he spoke about how these decisions are viewed as policy and not law -- so a future president may decide to go off the deep end into despotism.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself, and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

The combination of introducing new thought and speech crimes, while recording everything everybody says and writes, brings us squarely into an unchartered new era of despotism.

To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

So far it seems right on-- technology continues to advance, but globally it looks as if the normal arc of society is from freedom to despotism followed by a decay into syndicated criminality.

The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism.

Even if the energy problem is technically solvable, it seems to me that our political systems may be set up to do the absolute worst possible thing in this area: ride the fossil fuel crash into the ground in an orgy of war and despotism.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

Slavery, institutionalised racism and sexism, foot-binding, debtor's prisons, despotism, pedophilia; all examples of practices deriving from ancient wisdom that today are considered unacceptable.