Significados de despotic control em inglês

Are the laws of despotic control fitted for present-day conditions?

Joseph Stalin, who assumed despotic control over the Soviet Union in 1929, had peculiar ideas about science.

Objects of terror and pity exercise the same despotic control over it as those of love or beauty.

The governor was checked, but the leaders of the party in power held despotic control over the offices of the state.

The Cortes of Portugal grew anxious to milk the colonial cow, and passed laws to bring Brazil again under despotic control.

They are living in the house of their daughter and son-in-law (Mr. and Mrs. Charles Torrens), over whom they exercise a stern and despotic control.