But leaders - even absolute monarchs - need people to follow orders.

One of the world's few remaining absolute monarchs to hold national democratic elections for first time.

The king as the absolute monarch was the chief executive, legislator and justice of the land.

There'd be the tyrant; the absolute monarch at its head.

He was the last absolute monarch of history who ruled by decree.

They are windows into a time in Korea's history when absolute monarchs ruled.

He is currently the only absolute monarch in Europe.

Today they rule in the style of absolute monarchs.

An absolute monarch would be absolutely wise and good.

But although he was in theory an absolute monarch, his power was limited.

Consequently, he has long been considered the archetypal absolute monarch.

The kinship between this relationship and the days of absolute monarchs cannot be overlooked.

The Shah kings continued to rule as absolute monarch until 1846 when the political order changed.

Although Rosas received the sum of public power, he did not became an absolute monarch.

She had been an absolute monarch who regarded Parliament as a necessary evil in order to get money for her projects.

Asia has more absolute monarchs than any other continent.

"He would have made himself an absolute monarch."

The 18th century was not only a period of great absolute monarchs but also the age of the Enlightenment.

"I am indeed the President, yes, but not an absolute monarch, not quite yet.

"The artifact was a tool of an absolute monarch," Spock said.

When his older brother died late the following year, he was at the top of the succession list and became Siam's last absolute monarch.

"Because being Chief Librarian does not make me an absolute monarch.

His ambition was to be an absolute monarch over a sort of layered autocracy.

Even in the days of absolute monarchs, a person's home was his (or, to a lesser degree, her) castle.

In life, Ieyasu had made himself the absolute monarch of Japan.