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“As we continue to aid and arm despotic regimes in Egypt, we are also now sending weapons to the rebels in Syria,” Paul said.

But President Obama would look despotic if he embraced this tactic.

The shah returned to become even more despotic until his own overthrow in 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini.

They created a system of government with checks and balances so that no branch of government would become despotic.

As despotic regimes across the Arab world crumble or battle for survival, what lies ahead?

The most extraordinary and despotic measures were adopted by acclamation to meet the fearful emergency.

The manhood of Homestead rebelled: the millmen scorned the despotic ultimatum.

Fascination is despotic; beauty is something more tangible and independent of opinion.

Humble as Lecamus seemed to the outer world, he was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat.

Each sect has endeavored to make its God a monarch the most redoubtable, the greatest, the most despotic, and the most selfish.