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Meanings of absolutism in английском
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
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Examples for "tyranny"
Examples for "tyranny"
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Their economy is in ruins; their political system is an Orwellian tyranny.
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It afflicts the cities; it is a tyranny in the country districts.
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The trouble in Russia just now is the tyranny of the minority.
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Individual accumulation is responsible for crime; crime necessitates laws; laws breed tyranny.
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We talked about the war metaphors and the tyranny of positive thinking.
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A thousand days of despotism are better than one day of anarchy?
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Money, influence and perseverance were her allies; social despotism her only adversary.
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The government of the revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
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Rome was a despotism under Nero; so she was under the triumvirate.
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No, the despotism has no use for it; you would lose money.
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It has been 30 years since the end of the military dictatorship.
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A Franco-German war is therefore, for the Soviet dictatorship, a pathological obsession.
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Some Maldivians viewed the election as a choice between dictatorship and democracy.
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A dictatorship founded on that device might really last a thousand years.
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Indonesia remained a military dictatorship for the rest of the cold war.
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Growing political authoritarianism has coincided with greater state dominance over the economy.
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She is an international symbol for free speech and resistance to authoritarianism.
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This situation could bode well for the demise of authoritarianism in Zimbabwe.
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Colonialism also put into place a system of authoritarianism that favored elitism.
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An advocate of tradition and rigid authoritarianism, she stands firmly against change.
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Religion has influenced totalitarianism, and modern cults have been influenced by totalitarianism.
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Almost 50 years ago, we began a long struggle against aggressive totalitarianism.
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War, totalitarianism and the politics of human oppression are major themes.
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The Irish Times thought the move was another step towards totalitarianism.
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This is not a matter of totalitarianism; it is a matter of language.
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Until 1573 the misery continued; and the shogunate meanwhile degenerated into insignificance.
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The shogunate itself was reduced to the humiliation of paying tribute to China.
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Nevertheless the Hojo suffered the phantom-shogunate to linger on, until 1333.
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The castles represent the old shogunate, so they've been force-auctioned by the new government.
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Not at least until the shogunate had fallen into decay.
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And you will see it; you will see Caesarism drowned in the very blood it has shed.
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We didn't take into account the fact that the Republic dealt harshly with anyone who practiced Caesarism.
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Blish's Twenty-First Century: The Coming of Caesarism
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But this is rank and undisguised Caesarism.
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What will be surely destroyed is Caesarism.
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We are here because we are against one-man rule, she said.
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Critics say the proposed constitutional changes would lead to one-man rule and undermine basic freedoms.
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This is 29 years of one-man rule, Tsvangirai said.
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Libya has been plunged into turmoil since its 2011 uprising ended Muammar Gaddafi's one-man rule.
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Yet many argue that, even without those changes, Turkey is edging ever closer to one-man rule.
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It didn't require a great mind to see what Stalinism was.
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What I do not understand is her obvious passion for Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism.
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A changed outlook or bitter experience may wean him from Stalinism.
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His experiences will inform his indictment of Stalinism in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Moral revulsion against Stalinism and the behaviour of its agents in Spain is justified.
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However, they've just been and cut their own throats, for they've only made me more determined than ever to stick to my tee-totalism.
Form of government where the monarch has the power to rule his or her state without being restricted or controlled by other persons, institutions or laws.
Usage of absolutism in английском
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The idea of a predominant Power in Europe was part of absolutism.
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He is as sacred in his financial as in his religious absolutism.
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The ardour of rising absolutism is the true cause of the Revocation.
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It resulted in absolutism increasing, with an ever-widening sphere of royal control.
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He began his labors in behalf of absolutism by suppressing the Huguenots.
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Far from diminishing the absolutism of rulers, the Reformation only exaggerated it.
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The absolutism of green does not, however, always prevail in these woods.
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He was recklessly courageous, and was deemed somewhat unscrupulous in his absolutism.
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Such was the theory of what is called divine-right monarchy or absolutism.
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It has the same blend of the occult, the ethnic and absolutism.
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Hence Louis was a monarch whose absolutism rested on a popular basis.
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Mary Stuart meant absolutism at home, subjection to Rome and Spain abroad.
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In the days of German absolutism, this was a dangerous step to take.
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The rule of absolutism forced the transplanting of a democratic church.
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He professed openly the maxim that toleration was the necessary condition of absolutism.
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Besides, such rules of thumb needn't be held with unswerving absolutism.
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Absolutism through the time
Absolutism across language varieties
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