Authors like offer powerful examples of the monumental efforts, and despotic authoritarian regimes that would be necessary to implement and maintain it.

Source: https://stanfordreview.org/religion-progressive-style/

In other words, he imposed his despotic power by fulfilling his vows.

Source: https://zehabesha.com/the-angry-pm-abiy-ahmeds-red-terror-would-be-of-biblical-proportion/

The disenfranchised speaker sees refuge in the despotic dictator; while leftist counterpart cement middle managerial hierarchies whereby everyone is classified yet nobody is truly individual.

Source: http://www.movieviral.com/2023/02/26/that-dahl-debate-in-perspective/

Which was awkward, since Mr Akbari happened to be a former Deputy Minister in the Islamist theocracy's notoriously corrupt and despotic government.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11649941/Why-Irans-Islamist-ex-deputy-defence-minister-given-UK-citizenship-late-2000s.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Yanukovych was corrupt, despotic and beholden to Moscow.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/16/jimi-hendrix-live-in-lviv-by-andrey-kurkov-review-bittersweet-relic-of-a-sunnier-age