a nation ruled by a series of despotic rulers, each seemingly worse than the last the despotic coach demands that his players obey him without question
Recent Examples on the WebJesse grew up in a town called Freemanville, a settlement of Black people that’s involuntarily twinned with the neighboring white outpost of Cutterstown, which is run by a despotic and sadistic sheriff named Bates (Richard Jordan). Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022 And that’s without mentioning Soviet support during the Cold War for despotic regimes in African and Latin American nations such as Angola and Cuba. Casey Michel, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022 Watching President Trump glad-hand Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman once inspired Washington Post opinion columnist Max Boot to excoriate the president for his coziness with despotic global leaders. Andy Meek, Forbes, 24 July 2022 Under his leadership, the sport expanded into new territories determined not by a desire to grow its fanbase, but by which despotic governments were willing to pay the biggest race fees.Wired, 15 July 2022 What’s the latest news from the wild intersection of international sports and despotic regimes? Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 June 2022 Another poetic country is Nicaragua, the home of Rubén Darío and also of Gioconda Belli—a poet and writer who has been exiled for fiercely criticizing her country’s despotic ruler, Daniel Ortega. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022 Vladimir Putin’s invasion has exposed the reality of power politics, in which competing blocs of free and despotic states are again driving history. Aaron Rhodes, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022 Giant crocodilians were ritualistically beheaded in China in the second millennium bc, and archaeologists theorized that people were drawn to Monte Albán not by good farmland or despotic coercion but by its relatively egalitarian society. Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022 See More