1.   At that time, Nepal was transformed from an absolute monarchy into a multi-party democracy.

2.   For Durkheim this explained the harshness of punishment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when absolute monarchy was at its height.

3.   The country is an absolute monarchy.

4.   It is an absolute monarchy, whose head of state, the Amir, governs through an appointed Cabinet.

5.   But his absolute monarchy remains a far better option than the development-devouring Park City and its environs, and the awful sprawl south of Salt Lake.

6.   Needless to say, Saudi Arabia, as an absolute monarchy with no concern for civil liberties, does not constitute a model Islamic polity.

7.   No, no, I am not equating myself with Thomas Hobbes, the English social philosopher who believed in absolute monarchy.

8.   Only Brunei, on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia, now remains an absolute monarchy.

9.   Queen Aiswarya had long been associated in the minds of Nepali democrats with a rigid, outdated penchant for absolute monarchy and social conservatism.

10.   Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy that operates without a legislature and has banned political parties and imprisoned opposition leaders.