absolute rule

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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

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

One accomplishment I did expect to find—that the American Occupation, in its five years of absolute rule, had developed and improved the Haitian system of public education.

From Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. by Johnson, James Weldon