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
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
Monarchs over one-sixth of the globe, they played at Western niceties while clinging to Byzantine notions of absolute rule.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2016
Nevertheless, it is by no means an absolute rule in philology that the least compound form is the oldest.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
