But the latter's despotic rule led in turn to his expulsion, and Dionysius reclaimed his throne in 347 BC.

He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule and the exploitation of the poor.

During the Renaissance, the Gonzaga family softened their despotic rule and raised the level of culture and refinement in Mantua.

Cleopatra ’ s power has been described as “ naked, hereditary, and despotic ,” and it is argued that she is reminiscent of Mary Tudor ’ s reign — implying it is not coincidence that she brings about the “ doom of Egypt .” This is in part due to an emotional comparison in their rule.

Eric's rule was reputedly harsh and despotic and so he fell rapidly out of favour with the Norwegian nobility.

Sarit introduced a new generation of economically liberal technocrats to governing, encouraged private and foreign direct investment, launched major rural development projects, and rapidly expanded educational facilities, which, despite his despotic rule, made Sarit generally popular with the Thai public.

The Mandate of Heaven is a well-accepted and popular idea among the people of China, as it argues for the removal of incompetent or despotic rulers, and provided an incentive for rulers to rule well and justly.

" It is a study of the tyrant Domitian, and of the results of despotic rule on the despot himself and his court.

In an attempt to escape the despotic rule of a Rajah Makatunaw and the subsequent fall of the empire, the cheiftains, led by Datu Puti, fled eastwards to what is now the island of Panay.

However, in 1854, the state supreme court wrote " The union of all the powers of government in the same hands is but the definition of despotism "; thus, the same court that, in 1844, convicted Dorr of treason against the charter did rule, ten years later, that the charter had improperly authorized a despotic, non-republican, un-American form of government ( Dennison, p. 196 ).

Despite being technically a dictator, Lord Vetinari does not exercise the despotic rule that characterised some of his predecessors.

He is known for claiming that climate in the Orient led to despotic rule.

However, Punjabi rule eventually came to be seen as despotic, largely because of the expansion of judicial system.

Although often unpredictable or despotic, many Indians in “ rationalized ” provinces preferred their previous native rule.

In 1718, he published Discours sur la Polysynodie a book in which he was openly critical of the policy of the late Louis XIV, for his despotic rule and proposed the replacement of appointed ministers by elected councils.

Much of the population of the south were Roman Catholic, French-speaking, or liberals who regarded King William I's rule as despotic.

King John in June 1215 was forced to put his seal to " The Articles of the Barons " by a group of powerful barons who could no longer stand John's failed leadership and despotic rule.

During his despotic rule, he made several purges and also suspended the imperial examination system.

One of the core components of this system of authoritarian rule in both the family and the state is the subordination of women — whether in Nazi Germany, Khomeini's Iran, or in earlier cultures where chronic violence and despotic rule were the norm.

Secondly, Tocqueville repeatedly stresses is that if people want freedom not for its own sake but for some other goal, to further their material interest, it is unlikely that freedom will not turn into a despotic form of rule, where everyone may be free to further their material interest but without political freedom.

Due to the fact that the bureaucracy was dominated by El Temür, whose despotic rule clearly marked the decline of the empire, the actual impact of the Academy of the Pavilion of the Star of Literature on the government as a whole was limited.

As is common with despotic rule the whole period suffered from murders, suicides, corruption-material and moral-a record of which has been prepared by Kalhan Pandit who followed in the 12th century in the reign of Jayasinha.

Previously during the Time of Troubles, the boyars had offered the throne to Władysław at least twice, in the hopes of having the liberal Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth end the despotic rule of their current tsars.

Heaven would bless the authority of a just ruler, but would be displeased with a despotic ruler and would withdraw its mandate.

The constitution of 1940 promised a " strong, but not despotic " president and a new state empowered to deal directly with social and economic problems.

Pax Romana, according to Gibbon, would have ended with Commodus himself, whose dispendious excesses and despotic misrule destabilised central Roman politics amidst the chaos of the Germanic invasions of the Rhine-Danube frontier.

Fox, who occasionally corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and had met Benjamin Franklin in Paris, predicted that Britain had little practical hope of subduing the colonies, and interpreted the American cause approvingly as a struggle for liberty against the oppressive policies of a despotic and unaccountable executive.

" Regardless, though A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila were successes, Balakirev's lack of tact and despotic nature created considerable ill feelings between him and others involved, with he and Smetana no longer speaking to each other.

One criticism is that many of the founders of real-life Walden Twos identified with, or wanted to emulate, Frazier, the uncharismatic and implicitly despotic founder of the community.

After the restoration of the Bourbons ( 1815 ), the liberals were identified with the Orléanists, who rejected the legitimism of the elder branch as well as Bonapartism, which in their view was essentially " democratic Caesarism "-an equal submission of all men to one despotic ruler.

When Louis XVI was executed in France in 1793, he condemned the revolution as despotic and anarchic, although he had first welcomed it as a sign of " an age pregnant with the most gigantic efforts of character.

The Mandate of Heaven postulates that heaven ( 天 ; Tian ) would bless the authority of a just ruler, as defined by the Five Confucian Relationships, but would be displeased with a despotic ruler and would withdraw its mandate, leading to the overthrow of that ruler.

They feared that a government with the power to tax would soon become as despotic and corrupt as Great Britain had been only decades earlier.

It arose at a time when Catholic thinkers who opposed the despotic leaders in South and Central America allied themselves with the communist opposition.

For instance, the general assembly convoked in 1279 by Ladislaus IV for seven counties – among them Bihor, Crasna, Sătmar, and Zărand in the territory what is now Romania – ended with sentencing a despotic person to death.

They wanted President Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions.

That King James II, by going about to subvert the constitution, and by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by violating the fundamental laws, and withdrawing himself out of the kingdom, hath thereby renounced to be a king according to the constitution, by avowing to govern by a despotic power, unknown to the constitution, and inconsistent with it ; he hath renounced to be a king according to the law, such a king as he swore to be at his coronation, such a king to whom the allegiance of an English subject is due.

In the Symposium ( 182B-D ), Plato equates acceptance of homosexuality with democracy, and its suppression with despotism, saying that homosexuality " is shameful to barbarians because of their despotic governments, just as philosophy and athletics are, since it is apparently not in best interests of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or physical unions, all of which love is particularly apt to produce ".

Masaaki Ueda argued that " Himiko's was a despotic state with a generalized slave system " ( Farris 1998: 21 ), while Mitsusada Inoue idealized Yamatai as a " balance of small states " with communal property and popular political expression.

A small country, rich in resources, yet its people toiling under the crushing burden of poverty and ignorance, a scandalous land-tenure system with a corrupt and despotic government subservient and tolerant to foreign interests but harsh and exacting on its own people.

The publication did him great disservice in public life, his opponents endeavouring to identify him with the freethinking opinions of Thomas Hobbes in religion as well as with the philosopher's conclusions in favor of despotic government.

In 1638, the king summoned him, together with Traquair and Roxburgh, to London, but he refused to be won over, warned Charles against his despotic ecclesiastical policy, and showed great hostility towards William Laud.