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And President Bashar al-Assad, no doubt, sees that his coterie of regional despots is thinning out.

He could even hear the professor's voice as he ironically pronounced upon sordid little despots of Bassett's stamp.

And a nation of such individuals is an association of despots for despotic purposes, and nothing else nor better.

In a word, the soldier reigned supreme; and that most brutal of despots often made his own officer feel his power.

When the Mississippi Company took the colony in charge, it was but a change of despots.

Colquhoun, though a patriotic Briton, has to admit that the French despots had at last created an efficient police.