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

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

In Spain the return of absolute rule was still followed by a reign of terror.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin