absolute ruler

Example Sentences

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It is so powerful that being chairman of this body was the single position held by Deng Xiaoping as absolute ruler of China.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026

The historian Derek Croxton has likened this arrangement to “the EU in reverse,” in that all these countries shared an absolute ruler and foreign policies but had their own protectionist trade policies.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2020

Kemp writes: “The danger of being an absolute ruler is that no one dares tell you that what you have just decreed is not a good idea.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2019

Here, a rarity in opera, we have an absolute ruler and a smitten young man portrayed as defiantly and passionately in love.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2018

He seemed uncharacteristically powerless and contrite, a far cry from the tough, resolute and absolute ruler of the house I knew him to be, the father whose words were law.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane