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- noun Plural form of
despot .
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Examples
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Our staff includes individuals from across the political and ideological spectrum; our board is made up men and women who have suffered at the hands of despots from the far right to the far left.
Thor Halvorssen: Renovating the Rules of UN Backroom Diplomacy Thor Halvorssen 2010
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Our staff includes individuals from across the political and ideological spectrum; our board is made up men and women who have suffered at the hands of despots from the far right to the far left.
Thor Halvorssen: Renovating the Rules of UN Backroom Diplomacy Thor Halvorssen 2010
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Our staff includes individuals from across the political and ideological spectrum; our board is made up men and women who have suffered at the hands of despots from the far right to the far left.
Thor Halvorssen: Renovating the Rules of UN Backroom Diplomacy Thor Halvorssen 2010
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For most of the past millennium, most nations on Earth were governed by rulers who could be described as despots.
Catherine the Great's Lessons for Despots Robert K. Massie 2011
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Our staff includes individuals from across the political and ideological spectrum; our board is made up men and women who have suffered at the hands of despots from the far right to the far left.
Thor Halvorssen: Renovating the Rules of UN Backroom Diplomacy Thor Halvorssen 2010
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Our staff includes individuals from across the political and ideological spectrum; our board is made up men and women who have suffered at the hands of despots from the far right to the far left.
Thor Halvorssen: Renovating the Rules of UN Backroom Diplomacy Thor Halvorssen 2010
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Something of the mystery and romance that shroud the evil-doings of certain Italian despots of the age of the Renaissance envelops him.
Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900
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French peace in order to make a junction with the Jacobins to oppose the powers, whom, in their language, they call despots, and their leagues, a combination of despots.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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As long as Latin American despots do Washington’s bidding, they have had a free pass to make damn sure no dark-skinned people have rights.
Think Progress » As Dow Nears All-Time High From 2000, Fox News Declares Bush Tax Cuts A Success 2006
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Hence we do not call despots prodigal; for it is thought not easy for them to give and spend beyond the amount of their possessions.
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002
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