No country can make progress under despotic rule, so let the will of God be done. (punchng.com)
Under such despotic rule, the people's sovereignty was legally non-existent. (religion-online.org)
By the mid-twelfth century, the Mongols swept through the region, destabilizing and subjugating it and causing Bagrationi central authority to wane and a period of local despotic rule to ensue. (fieryfoodscentral.com)