absolute power
Example Sentences
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Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened hasn’t led to safe or positive outcomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo now hold absolute power over the country.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
But over there, long after successive monarchs surrendered their absolute power, it has come to represent tradition, national unity and stability.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
This is the type of monarchy embodied by Prince Carlo’s Bourbon ancestor, that very same Louis XIV who ruled by divine right and sought absolute power.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2024
The problem these fifty-nine years has been this: how can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
