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
The Heat know it’s not an absolute rule.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2020
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
Many an author has found the task of managing a public profile confounding and distasteful, especially after spending so much time in imaginary worlds over which they have absolute rule.
From Slate • Oct. 13, 2017
The inspirations of sentiment, then, which are essentially mobile and individual, cannot be raised to a universal and absolute rule.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
