How To Use Tinpot In A Sentence
-
Having failed to steamroller the United Nations Security Council into supporting its invasion, the US has created a tinpot ‘coalition of the willing’ instead.
-
He crashes around like some tinpot dictator and then suggests that I'm the one in need of spiritual help!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
-
I imagine some tinpot dictator strutting about, telling his latest mistress that if the damn Yanks don't pay up, then no reform will be had.
-
Without the latter, he would just be a tinpot dictator of a small 3rd world country.
-
They have been plagued by infamous tinpot dictators whose corrupt practices, brutality and habitual inefficiency left many Latin American countries mired in political and economic instability for much of the 20th century.
-
time to worry about every tinpot little designer who comes into my office.
YELLOW BIRD
-
Why on earth is the USA supposed to be responsible for the unending disasters of every African tinpot country?
-
You'll be known as the unelected Prime Minister who traded oil for justice, let down 270 innocent victims of the Lockerbie disaster, did shady deals with a tinpot dictator, and chose a 'special relationship' with Libya over our staunch friend and ally, the United States of America.
A New Dark Age Is Dawning
-
But the trend for tinpot lifestyle dictators can't last forever.
-
The most effective immediate assistance Canada could give in this war would be to build, equip and man a thousand "tinpot" trawlers and minesweepers and put them to work on our own eastern and western approaches and on the eastern and western approaches to the British Isles.
War With the Blinds Down
-
If one of my students had got a scholarship, people would have just said they were sorry, but he or she came from a tinpot country school.
-
Maybe it's time to organise a trip to some tinpot African country to boost my image.
-
But, if we must keep out of the Baltic because we are not yet strong enough to go in, and if our merchant ships must run the hazards of bubble mines and magnetic mines and pocket battleships and submarine's torpedoes for another hundred days and another hundred days-then I heartily endorse W.J. Stewart, M. P.P.'s condemnation of sneers at Canada's "tinpot" navy.
War With the Blinds Down
-
It is absolute blackmail and that was said to members of the Authority and various chairmen by tinpot politicians.
-
Within months, the carefully groomed leader became a tinpot dictator, setting a trend that would endure in all the fractured states of West Africa.
-
Soon these two rather different pursuits become intertwined as our designated heroes find themselves under assault from a tinpot dictator and a greedy Western industrialist.
-
There is first the enfranchisement of your steaming limbs from gaiter and shooting boot, buckskin and flannel; then the steeping of your sodden head in the pellucid depth, with bubaline snortings and expirations of satisfaction; then, as the first cold stream from the "tinpot" courses down your spine, what electric thrills start from a dozen ganglia and flush your whole nervous system with new life!
Behind the Bungalow
-
What is worse is we will prosecute that person for working with legitimate Government agencies as a private contract officer to overthrow some other tinpot dictator in a country that he or she has invaded or taken control of.
-
he's a tinpot Hitler
-
ROGUE GUNNER": Admiral: 'tinpot' armed services skip to main
Admiral: 'tinpot' armed services
-
I mean, he's really just a garden variety tinpot dictator.
-
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.
-
There is first the enfranchisement of your steaming limbs from gaiter and shooting boot, buckskin and flannel; then the steeping of your sodden head in the pellucid depth, with bubaline snortings and expirations of satisfaction; then, as the first cold stream from the "tinpot" courses down your spine, what electric thrills start from a dozen ganglia and flush your whole nervous system with new life!
Behind the Bungalow
-
This is the perennial excuse of tinpot dictators the world over.
-
Revolutions in tinpot republics don’t solve problems; they exacerbate them.
Matthew Yglesias » Carter on Gaza
-
Ridding the world of tinpot dictators and ‘a scattered network of killers’, or fighting AIDS, do not quite capture a similar sense of ambition.
-
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.
-
It is usual in tinpot dictatorships for past leaders to be harried from scenes of public prestige.
A cheap and cruel snub to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown | Observer editorial
-
As if we lived in some kind of tinpot theocracy, Mr. MacAskill intoned that Megrahi would be judged by "a higher authority.
The Lockerbie Bomber and Scotland's Disgrace
-
France's foreign policy is driven by soulless sycophants who are willing to suck the sweat off the balls of any megalomaniacal tinpot dictator who will award them a few contracts and lend international support.
-
A blog which quickly descends, in its comment moderation policy, into the kind of tinpot authoritarianism that the likes of Guido and Dale are just itching to catch a whiff off.
Paranoia, paranoia…
-
The unit formed up bravely while the tinpot band changed from Meyerbeer to something with a military air.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
-
According to tinpot information in the process of ERP system execution, an integrate system will be offered.
-
This tinpot Caesar is in open revolt against the intellectual banality and poverty of his home life - the house is decorated with framed tourist posters of Florence and Rome - and by his lack of cash.
