How To Use Dictator In A Sentence
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When the United States allowed the President to make himself a dictator, Cubans promulgated a new constitution that abnegated the hated Platt Amendment.
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Instead, we suffer a good deal more from elective dictatorship, with prime ministers and premiers able to shape the political agenda with a freer hand.
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This type of political perversion of the law was well known during Hitler's fascist dictatorship.
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Now the boy's being hauled before the courts for having been part of a plot to overthrow some tinpot dictator in Equatorial Mongolia or some such place.
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The ayatollah broke with Iran's clerical leadership and became a vehement critic, denouncing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling the postelection crackdown the work of a dictatorship.
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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. Harry S. Truman
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Like dictators and führers, politicians always come to the scene of a natural disaster carrying a wad of cash.
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, the "telescreen" compulsorily present in every house is not only a television broadcasting from the outside, but a sort of CCTV camera, observing the people in the room, shouting at them if they fail to meet the standards ordained by the state of which Big Brother is the dictator, always watching them.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
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Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably).
BEHINDLINGS
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Just why the politician who destroyed his premiership crusading against dictators wilfully became a servant to them remains unanswered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lord of the Rings, the tale of a pacifist-turned-assassin lugging a rifle to a dictator's heartland in order to get off that one critical shot.
Zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery
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Put them in an arena, live coverage, president vs. prime minister, king vs. emperor, dictator vs. puppet ruler. It'll be like Unreal Tournament, except more fun.
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Noriega had become increasingly dictatorial, relied on irregular paramilitary units, and was involved in drug trafficking.
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Admittedly, dictatorships do not encourage the cultivation of colourful eccentrics such as Montgomery or Patton.
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Not only did they provide the dictator with needed cash, but they played right into his scheme of using oil allocations to buy favor around the globe.
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We see a dictator using force to repress and persecute his opponents.
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Kim Jong Il, who passed away Saturday from an apparent heart attack at the age of 69 - the official cause was "overwork" - was an old-school dictator, predictably unpredictable.
Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
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A dictator must have a firm hand.
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Money lent to dictators and snaffled away into offshore accounts gets racked on to the public debt to be paid by future generations.
Debt crisis: A default in Europe could benefit poor countries | Jonathan Glennie
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I would also note that Caplan analogized his Council of Economists to the Supreme Court rather than a dictator, vetoing laws that are "uneconomical" rather than "unconstitutional".
MRV update, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Ahmadinejad's 'victory' saps the Islamic Republic yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Ahmadinejad\'s \'victory\' saps the Islamic Republic '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: The Islamic Republic needs to seize the moment to respond to Iranians and the wider world before it traps itself into becoming the Islamic Republic of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, an isolated military dictatorship akin to North Korea or Myanmar.
Ahmadinejad's 'victory' saps the Islamic Republic
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Protecting dictators for geopolitical gains, flouting international laws to protect themselves and lying to their people to justify wars do not help to promote liberal democracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the final section of today's masterpiece on 'dirty shipping industry', he lays out approvingly what the dictatorial, self-important, unrepresentative 'greenie' lobby groups demand of shipping; Harrabin says that shipping industry is unreasonably doing what the greenies and and 'scientists' don't want, QED, shipping industry is bad.
OPEN THREAD
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By 1983, protests against the dictatorship by social organizations and the banned political parties convulsed the country.
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Dictators, after all, aren't known for their moral consistency or steady behavior.
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And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship.
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The dictator in pinstripes was in Geneva addressing the meeting at a time when it is well known that his regime is planning to tighten its grip on the net by routing all e-mail through a government-owned hub.
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The first and most important task of the new administrative system is to abolish the dictatorship of the producer and to overcome the deficits of our economy.
Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
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Mass opposition to a war against a dictator who models himself on Stalin is being led by a man who is nostalgic for Stalin.
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Mike explains why resistance was so difficult under the rigid, dictatorial regime which still called itself socialist.
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Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men.
Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know
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The former dictator, a palace-dwelling billionaire, was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
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What they have experienced is a life of missed opportunities caused by an aging clerical leadership, massive corruption and a regime that is increasingly dictatorial.
Times, Sunday Times
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my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime
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Lenin proposed that the new regime would be a ‘democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.’
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The fallen dictator must be locked up in a prison cell, not placed in a five-star hospital, argued Jano Charbel, a journalist.
Mubarak suffers reported heart attack while facing Egypt's corruption claims
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Years of dictatorship also meant that officials in athletic circles had very little grasp on reality.
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Texts will be supplied in the normal format for dictation by dictators appointed by the Local Examinations Secretary.
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After recovering from the shock, he again manifested his dictatorial strength.
The Terrors
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No greater contrast is possible than to go from a city under the sway of a proletarian dictatorship to a royal city where a king sits in ermine on an ancient throne.
Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
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In the lift I took to go home yesterday, someone had attached a sheet of paper which said ‘Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to dictatorship’.
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Conversely, a claim of a right to secede from a repressive dictatorship may be regarded as legitimate.
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So now in addition to the “ends justify the means” and “de minimus non curat lex” apologia for RW dictatorships, we have an implicit “no true Scotsman” argument: “No real RW gummint has secret police and a surveillance state” (even if they torture and kill their dissidents and anyone else that gets in their way).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
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But, those are those over the age of 35 - most younger voters - many born in decades after the Marcos years have no memories of the those years other than the dictator label pegged on his father and conjugal nature of those years in power.
Philippines: Marcos Jr files candidacy for Philippine Senate
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He continued by declaring, ‘the dictator must die like a dog, because he deserves it.’
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I think what also countervailed any condemning supposition that Roosevelt sacrificed servicemen to get the US into a war with Japan was the real determination, lethality and tenacity of the dictatorial enemies of the US, and Europe.
AP Poll: Bush Is Both the Biggest "Hero" and "Villain"
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One of the worst examples was in Ethiopia, where Haile Selassie's failure to deal with a drought led to his fall and the rise of the communist dictatorship of Haile Miriam Mengistu.
Opportunities offered by climate change | Rachel Godfrey Wood
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Where such traditions are absent or weak, popular sovereignty easily turns into populist dictatorship, liberal democracy to libertinism and demagoguery.
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The nature of the dictatorships determined the savage character of the eastern conflict.
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Allies of the former dictator claimed that they had already moved his body to a safer place.
Times, Sunday Times
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A palace coup led by General Rodriguez has toppled the dictator.
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This financial bonfire is our Reichtag fire, and our real Fuhrer, Paulson, is requesting emergency dictatorial powers to save the nation from nonexistent, unbridled capitalism.
The Highway Robber State « Antiwar.com Blog
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The dictator refuses to relax his grip on power.
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Such violent protests might have been tolerated in the past because there were no other channels for expressing opinions during the dictatorial regimes.
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Michael Pennington invests the Don's medical sidekick with exactly the right air of terrified loyalty, Oliver Cotton exudes white-suited arrogance as a dictatorial master baker, and Gavin Fowler lends his maltreated son a simmering, murderous resentment.
The Syndicate – review | Michael Billington
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One of the key indicators of a society that is transforming from democracy to fascism or dictatorship is government control of the press.
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But they have not been able to transform "bushcraft" into statecraft as recent scholarship by one of the original founders of the party-in-dictatorship today has shown.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: The Future of the Future Country, Part II
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It is they which evoke remembrances of a lost war and exiled dynasty, a failed republic, a terrorist dictatorship, and horrendous devastation in the wake of still another lost war, and, finally, the trauma of a divided city.
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The first and most important task of the new administrative system is to abolish the dictatorship of the producer and to overcome the deficits of our economy.
Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
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Regime change against dictators who let their people starve is now considered to be unacceptable.
Africa
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Obviously, the removal of a dictator by the people themselves is probably the most desirable outcome in these situations.
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‘All dictatorships are sexually repressive and anti-life,’ he claims.
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A dictator is unlikely to become a good leader in a democracy. A leopard cannot change its spots.
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The very means by which the dictator had clung to power, his legendary savagery, had destroyed his internal support.
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The government is acting like a dictator on this matter and bulldozing its way through everything.
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Some call me a sell out or, even worse, an abettor of dictators.
Tom Doctoroff: Books That Reveal China's Cultural Constitution
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There are many countries in the world where the unfortunate people living there, are subject to the whims of corrupt dictators who have managed to gain power, usually by force.
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Lucky to still be up, I assume they're fishing around for rich dictators as we speak, plus a manager, plus a defence.
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He's a homicidal dictator who can be deterred, or eliminated, by conventional means.
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[133], Assyrian writers explain that: The deep and hidden reason of the tyrannical oppression practiced throughout the Middle East is the imposition of pan-Arabic nationalist cliques that intend to dictatorially arabize the various peoples of the Middle East, who are � - all -- not Arabs
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It shames the democratic world to have such a brutal dictatorship in Europe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elected dictatorships, which extinguish opposition, destroy the political process too.
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Many also say he saved the country from the movement, which critics accused of being theocratic and dictatorial while in power.
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The choice was therefore to leave a murderous dictator in power or to remove him by force.
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No, this won't be a naval skirmish with some oppressive foreign dictator.
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When it comes to Germans and their relationship with dictators, Enzensberger knows whereof he speaks.
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And although American and British ideas of constitutional government dominated the first stage of the French Revolution, the constitutionalists were soon swept aside by the dictatorship of the Jacobin club.
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He realized early on that the idea of achieving a modus vivendi with the National Socialist dictatorship was out of the question.
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The only problem is this: how do you stop councils of workers becoming dictatorships of party officials?
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In 1946, after the death of dictator Benito Mussolini, the reconstituted Italian government renounced its claims to its African colonies.
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Every country in the region was a military dictatorship.
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It would be peaceful but overwhelming: it would defy the new government, and the dictators, and NATO in the background.
COUP D'ETAT
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In a moment all the wrongs he had suffered at their hands were forgotten; he accepted the position of dictator or _suffete_, he caused more humane laws to be passed, and not only saved the people from ruin and enabled the merchants again to sell their goods, but paid the large sum demanded as a war indemnity by Rome within the year.
The Red Book of Heroes
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When religious figures have absolute dictatory power over science, health, and foreign policy?
Lean Left » Blog Archive » An Observation
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But self-delusion is the quintessential attribute of all dictators.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound!
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Nevertheless, even absolute monarchs or totalitarian dictators are constrained by forces beyond their control.
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These, and similar phrases, form the vocabulary of dictatorship.
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So now the Palestinians live under a murderous gangster cleptocracy in Yehuda and under a murderous Islamist dictatorship in Gaza, both headed by organizations who are committed both in writing and in fact to the end of Israel.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Correction on Israeli Visa Policy
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To develop this observation a bit further, the nation implied by the document would be an elective dictatorship, governed not by three counterpoised branches of government but by a secretive, possibly benign, awesomely powerful king.
January 2006
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This was another instance of ‘dictatorship’ by Duchas, who had already forced destocking of commonages on farmers.
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But they are all still Leftists with the same dictatorial inclinations.
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He had been many years a lieutenant, and his temper had been considerably soured before he had got his promotion; indeed, some of those whom he had known as midshipmen were now admirals, and he seemed to take especial pleasure in acting in a dictatorial manner towards all those under him.
The Three Commanders
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Similar to Eisenhower, who warned America of an emerging scientific-technological elite, Mao was concerned that scientists could take over as a "technical elite," so he demanded that ideology take precedence over science, effectively silencing scientists, not unlike several American antiscience conservative radio commentators today who complain of a "scientific dictatorship.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road
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Ramsey the Liberal politician had ideas of democracy which cut across this benevolent dictatorship.
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This dictatorial approach will be harder to maintain as the relay passes through bigger cities and reaches London in July.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suddenly allt he Hillary supporters think they live in a dictatorship.
More than three-quarters rate economic conditions poor
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Being named after a dictator is about all that needs to be said about this guy, and all those who wish to share the name.
Supporting Barack Hussein Obama
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We have struggled courageously to topple the dictator and establish democracy.
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He is a facilitator rather than a dictator.
Times, Sunday Times
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Certain of the directors were inclined to criticise other directors and to be somewhat dictatory as to how the farmers 'business should be conducted.
Deep Furrows
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Protecting dictators for geopolitical gains, flouting international laws to protect themselves and lying to their people to justify wars do not help to promote liberal democracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have no idea if this is shooped -- on the one hand, it is the kind of thing a loony dictator might revel in; on the other hand, why wouldn't he get his name woven in Arabic script?
Boing Boing
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He was a secularist dictator, not a fundamentalist.
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‘All dictatorships are sexually repressive and anti-life,’ he claims.
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And he knows that the economic power of capitalism supplants the dictatorial power he envisions for himself.
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The team join tens of thousands of people who have fled a dictatorial regime, widespread poverty and compulsory military service.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inc. threats and intimidation. we've received a death threat from friends and family of ramson inc. more on this tomorrow. but it would seem as if little ramson has decided it's better to crawl back in his little rat hole at OD [office of the dictator] rather than engage with his enemies. he realised he's being defeated at every corner. but like a good bhar. rat orlittle georgie bush, he's declared victory!!
Propaganda press! freedom now Guyana
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Today we define despotism (along with dictatorship and totalitarianism) as a form of government.
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In truth, he has written as easily about love as he has about tyranny, as nimbly about rabid dictators as about powerless artists; he has given us "Vargas Llosa light," in delightfully erotic (thinly veiled autobiographical) stories, and "Vargas Llosa dark," in elaborately researched and profoundly illuminating historical novels.
The power of Mario Vargas Llosa's words led the political writer to Nobel Prize
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But typically the dictatorial F1 supremo doesn't see this setback as remotely his Waterloo!
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Perhaps you're the dictator of somewhere bleakish and distant, full of dust and oil and golden statues of you.
Times, Sunday Times
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The road from dictatorship to democracy and constitutional government is seldom smooth.
Times, Sunday Times
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He would bring the same kind of economic stagnation, internal turmoil and discord to our country that other dictators bring to theirs.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, he was not explicit as to when and how a civil dictatorship could replace a military government and eventually be replaced by a democratic system.
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To ask dictatorship to be democratic is utopian.
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He has always acted as sovereign instinctively; he was so as a private individual and clubbist; he is not to cease being so, now that he possesses legal authority, and all the more because if he hesitates he knows he is lost; to save himself from the scaffold he has no refuge but in a dictatorship.
The French Revolution - Volume 3
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The downside of honouring a man seen by many in the US as a brutal dictator is felt to outweigh any diplomatic benefit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your State Department, your Mr Reagan, love to rant on and on about the horrors of the Sandinista dictatorship in Nicaragua.
BLACK EAGLES
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It's a one-book explanation for the current move to the left in a growing number of Latin American countries, tracing a centuries-long history of rapine and plunder, of genocide and dictatorship, first at the hands of Spain, and more recently under the baleful influence of the US, which operated directly or by proxy to ensure that nothing would ever change.
Archive 2009-04-01
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In February workers overthrew the dictatorial ruler, the Tsar.
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The two are not unconnected as the pseudo-science that is "palaeoclimatology" looks evermore threadbare and the IPCC is finally exposed for the politically driven organisation it is, it becomes increasingly clear that "International Aid" when not used to line the pockets of corrupt dictators is used to fund the very organisations that take to the streets to lobby governments on climate change.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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The very instability of this mass makes it responsive to the action of any demagogue, or of that very special version of Latin American demagogy: military dictators ” and exdictators [i.e.,
Carnival in Caracas
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The former dictator of Sierra Leone, now deposed, is living in his mom's place and playing cards at the local bar these days.
Boing Boing: July 28, 2002 - August 3, 2002 Archives
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Comparing politicians to evil dictators is offensive, shrill, and coarsens the political discourse.
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When we suggest that without democracy there's a danger of dictatorship, he launches into a diatribe.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a brutal military dictatorship.
The Sun
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Scene after scene, the professor uses the meaning he assigns to words to establish dictatorial superiority over his pupil up until to the abrupt dark comedic ending.
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There are bizarre anticipations of the Princess Diana cult - airhead clothes-horse becomes martyr for entire, weeping nation - in this musical about the trophy wife of dictator Juan Peron.
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Shaggy's enjoyed our fair share of kind offers to have our anatomy enlarged, become an ordained minister online or join a deceased dictator's family in spiriting millions of dollars out of Africa.
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The slim brown door echoes the ranting dictator's infamous toothbrush moustache.
The Sun
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At the same time, supporters of right-wing dictatorships ascended to the highest offices of the Church.
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Whatever the depredations of the Bush kakistocracy, we are quite a ways (though not as far as we used to be) from a fascist dictatorship.
Michelle Goldberg: The F-Word
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 The art looks remarkably like the work of J. Scott Campbell (in a good way) as Flash Gordon, who is apparently a CIA agent, and his partner Dale Arden, who is a half-dressed uber-hottie, turn the indigenous peoples againstÂtheir dictator.
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An unbridled Executive is characteristic of dictatorships and single-party states; not parliamentary democracies.
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Publilius' dictatorship is also suspect but if he passed the first two measures (perhaps as consul), this marks a significant development in plebeian use of a curule magistracy for political reform.
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For one, wages tend to be lower in authoritarian regimes than in democracies, giving businesses in dictatorships a monetary advantage in selling exports abroad.
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When Libya first erupted against its dictator, Barack Obama, David Cameron and the rest of the soi-disant leaders of the free world appeared to enjoy the good fortune of avoiding that choice.
Instead of fearing another Iraq, the west must do right by Libya | Andrew Rawnsley
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He appears to be like a dictator who can brook no dissent.
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He would bring the same kind of economic stagnation, internal turmoil and discord to our country that other dictators bring to theirs.
Times, Sunday Times
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By chance, this coincided with widespread demonstrations against the military dictatorship by students and democracy activists.
Times, Sunday Times
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Speaking of lawsuits, don't hold your breath waiting for an American president to apologize for Washington having supported dictators like Ferdinand Marcos and Anastasio Somosa and Saddam Hussein and Augusto Pinochet and Suharto and Rafael Trujillo and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
If we allow cruelty. . .
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a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war
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Shogun is more accurately - "generalissimo" or better understood as "Military Dictator", The most famous probably being Tokugawa Ieyasu, who found the Tokugawa Shogunate (c. 1603-1868), a period a great peace, stability and prosperity in Japanese History, ending with the Meiji Restoration.
Army Rumour Service
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JOE: I am Joe, sent to you by the Dictator of Writing to help you in your task.
The Dictator of Writing Announces His Decrees, Part I « Whatever
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A body dominated by dictatorships is never going to promote democratic values.
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A time when dictatorship was at its peak, and the press was being muzzled and suppressed right across the continent.
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When crumbling dictators make these trips they are often one way.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dictatorship of the proletariat became in practice personal power wielded by an autocratic leader.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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He suspended the constitution and assumed dictatorial powers.
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In the early first century BC the dictator Sulla sought to eliminate his opponents by ‘proscribing’ the names of all those who were declared to be traitors.
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I mean, he's really just a garden variety tinpot dictator.
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We can forgive the debts of Third World dictatorships, but these guys will run it up again and pocket the dough.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: US envoy: Iraq war opened 'Pandora's box,' civil war threat
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You do know that most dictator and terrorist organizations are raised by the U. S. funding in the beginning, right? lol. Dumb red-neck.
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So, whereas what was required under a dictatorship was exceptional courage, what citizens in democracies have to do is overcome apathy and inertia.
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Banning hunting is Aristotle's tyranny of democracy and parliamentary dictatorship.
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Dictators rarely go down without a fight.
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The "rotund" man with the "violent temper [and] dictatorial, commanding attitude" toward the masseuse, acted like a "crazed sex poodle.
News of the Weird / Pro Edition
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And I don't use that term lightly; the very definition of a dictatorship is a system that puts a ruler above the law.
Boing Boing: December 18, 2005 - December 24, 2005 Archives
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The dictator represses all opposition as illegal.
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Their goal was to take over every island and continent and submit them to dictatorship.
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KUWAIT CITY - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned that Iran is "moving toward a military dictatorship", saying the top posts in the country are being "supplanted".
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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He is renowned as a canny strategist and has a sharp economic mind, but his dictatorial approach and suppression of human rights worries many.
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The dictator decreed that his birthday would be a public holiday.
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In the 1930s, when deflation and dictatorship circumscribed the strategies of light industry, employers in wool, cotton, and rayon reverted to a familiar form of company paternalism with the help of sisters on the payroll.
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Argentina's swift defeat hastened the fall of the military dictatorship and the restoration of democracy.
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The group supported the armed struggle against the dictator.
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Elective dictatorship is a danger inherent in our system.
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Gaius Octavius, as Augustus was originally known, was 18 when in 43 BC his great-uncle, the dictator Julius Caesar, was assassinated.
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In this sense, the Scottish system has turned Westminster's elective dictatorship upside down.
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The confusion of national and personal interest is not uncommon among dictators, however urbane.
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I refer to the heyday of Pan-Arabism, personified by Egypt's dictator at the time, Gamal Abd Al-Nasser, who came to power in July 1952 as the leader of the "free officers".
Dr. Josef Olmert: Political Eruptions in the Arab World -- Lessons From Nasser's Day
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Tyranny - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Sound Politics: Absence of Justice
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It is the Museveni dictatorship for the Acholi [Uganda], the Arab state for th southern Sudanese, the mestiço state for UNITA [Angola], or the Tutsi state for the Hutu [Rwanda].
November Books 7) The Pollinators of Eden, by John Boyd
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In Beijing sullen survivors of the massacre symbolically broke small bottles (xiaoping) homonymic with the dictator, and residents of the capital spoke ominously of sorcerers 'creating tiny effigies of 'old Deng' to be hexed and otherwise incised.
That Old Chinese Black Magic
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Some dictators had been keen to forge triple alliances including foreign firms; other had kept them at arms' length.
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The easy, almost effortless path to total dictatorial power makes melancholy reading.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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As a natural contrarian, Orwell's distrust of the Left's hero worship of dictators like Stalin deepened after his personal experience in the Spanish Civil War where he saw Communism betray his view of the revolution.
Orwell and Patriotism
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Roosevelt, the most powerful man in the world at that time, lavished attention on our closest ally while virtually ignoring the tinpot dictator of a small, weak country who was once silly enough to declare war on our ally.
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After the death of the dictator there was an unseemly scramble for power among the generals.
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For the past two decades he has made something of a name for himself dealing with many of the world's most notorious dictators and despots.
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The former dictator was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
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While the first line of Wall Street's defense of its dictatorship is the more openly right wing, hard-line approach of trying to downplay and attack Occupy Wall Street thru any and all physical, political and media means, the next stage of defense will be subtler- and Democrat-led: try to divide and coopt the movement.
Roberto Lovato: Occupy Wall Street Must End the Dictatorship - of Corporations
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Assassinating dictators and toppling undemocratic regimes doesn't sound so bad, in the end.
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Swiss actor, Bruno Ganz, portrays Hitler, and is said to achieve a photographic likeness of the stooped, 56-year-old dictator, who was plagued by Parkinson's disease.
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He does not want to be dictator of a third-rate country.
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This is the perennial excuse of tinpot dictators the world over.
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She was not surprised, however, at the meek way in which the fallen dictator surrendered.
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As a result, the movement is both militant and careful because false steps and excessive aggression are severely punished by more brutal dictators and state security apparatuses than exist elsewhere.
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This was what Helena was thinking of this night, as she outwatched the stars, and knew by his tale half-told that the Dictator would soon be leaving her, in all probability for ever.
The Dictator
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They wanted to establish their own dictatorship of the proletariat.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This war is not about democracy; our history shows that we have put more dictators in power throughout the world than we have supported democracy.
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Real regulation of internships would involve dictatorial and illiberal measures and a lot of policing.
Times, Sunday Times
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I thought that, according to George Galloway, only certain Middle Eastern dictators could be termed indefatigable?
Atlantic Review
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Allowing genocide undermines regional and international stability, creates militarized refugees, and signals dictators that hate and murder are permissible tools of statecraft.
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The example of restraint which would have resulted from the sparing of the dictator's life, and possibly encouraged similar expressions from opposition forces sympathetic to Saddam, has been tossed aside in Bush and Maliki's pyretic rush forward to some imagined crushing victory that they would gamble even more of our soldiers 'lives to achieve.
Three Thousand Wake-Up Calls In Iraq
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A dictatorship, with an authoritarian and centralist regime, was in place under Franco at the time.
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You again confuse not wishing to provoke a nuclear conflict with a deranged dictatorship as approval for same.
Think Progress » Hume: A Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Be a ‘Successful Strategy’
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This corrupt and dictatorial regime is fully backed by the western powers.
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From 1945 onwards, few cared to question whether this Churchillian refusal to negotiate with Stalin, or any other dictator, actually makes things worse - that would have sounded as though excuses were being made for misrule.
