absolute rule
Example Sentences
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As Arendt understood, the criminal state eliminates one of the final barriers to absolute rule.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2024
But monitoring groups say there are no signs of a humanitarian crisis or social chaos that could threaten Kim’s absolute rule at home.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
It’s theatergoers in New York and Washington who are revealing the true stiff upper lips — if you could actually see them under their masks, which they wear as an absolute rule in most venues.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2021
In 1975, after nearly four decades of absolute rule, Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco died, two weeks before his 83rd birthday.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 20, 2018
It is, in a great measure, a question of detail, in which many and various considerations must be kept in view, and no absolute rule can be laid down.
From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
