Sentences with phrase «absolute monarchy means»
While Saudi's system of absolute monarchy means the King is legally the highest authority in the Kingdom, bin Salman has been granted unprecedented control of the state's domestic and foreign policies by his ailing, octogenarian father, ostensibly making him the real power behind the throne.
https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/ Not exact matches
TheCapitalist Don't you mean the harm done by dictators, where you can add Hitler and all the absolute rule monarchy types that we've had throughout history?
The Jewish monarchy had never been absolute as this one is pictured as being; in Jewish law the wife could not be sold into slavery; and in Palestine torture would not have been inflicted on a man imprisoned for debt (the word translated «jailers» in v. 34 also means «torturers»).
The term «constitutional monarchy» means that the king is stripped from the conventional powers - though he retains very limited power - an absolute king would have.