Certainly, there was the occasional despot who aspired to religious absolutism. |
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Celebrities, journalists, and other illuminati have long gushed with admiration for Cuba's communist despot. |
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Here's a case where a POW was likely murdered, yet they are the same ones insisting that we leave the despot in power. |
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They have been consistent in their demands for firm international action to force the despot from power. |
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So was John an enlightened despot, beneficently overseeing a realm of unparalleled tolerance and bonhomie? |
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Her father Daddy O runs Woop Woop as a despot, with the usual modicum of attendant corruption. |
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This comic operetta tells the story of a South Sea Island despot who wishes to anglicise his island by importing all things English. |
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His son should better be advised to deal with the despot carefully lest it becomes the jinx of both father and son. |
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Azerbaijan is run by a family dynasty, Turkmenistan by a despot who took over from another despot. |
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This brings the unwanted attentions of local despot Hatcher who, with his ragbag of cut-throat henchmen, sets out to destroy the heroes and nab the treasure for himself. |
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He can recognise a despot, and the occasions when despotism has to be checked, by force if necessary. |
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It is not obvious whether the moral good is served by seeking peace above all else, or risking bloodshed to remove a despot. |
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The world community has tried sanctions against that country and that despot for 11 years. |
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It is very frustrating when time turns a man who fought for freedom and independence into a harmful despot. |
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The statistical probability of a dictator or despot bringing his money into Switzerland is therefore relatively high. |
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Mobutu himself became a patron, or a despot in the sense that he was the ultimate point of reference. |
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Cruel and tyrannical, he consciously sought to make himself a despot. |
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As an advocate for hard times and the impending global apocalypse, I'm disappointed whenever a potential murderous despot loses his insane grip on the world. |
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But Stephen Kotkin's new biography reveals a learned despot who acted cunningly to take advantage of the times. |
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This is the sort of delusion that sets in when a despot confuses himself with the state after too long in power. |
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This is the first time a Latin American despot has faced trial for such charges in his own country. |
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As the fiery despot, the fine character actor Simmons has never been given a role this juicy, and knocks it out of the park. |
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To seek rhyme or reason in such decisions is as vain an inquiry as to seek the same qualities in the ukase of a Russian Czar or the whims of an Oriental despot. |
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As a high-ranking servant of a murderous despot, he lied often. |
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That is, these states are despotic, not so much because they are characterised by arbitrary rule, but because the despot provides and monopolises the only framework for cooperation and communication. |
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In this context, project assessment can no longer be seen as a tool for use by a kind of enlightened despot to calmly impose an order of priority on projects submitted in line with the public interest. |
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Believing Mugabe to be a despicable despot who has brought his country to its knees, I was very happy to vote against Amendment 6 as a means of registering outrage at his behaviour and his intended presence at the Summit. |
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Imperious despot, insolent in strife, Lover of ruin, enemy of life! |
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No long-serving despot is clinging tenaciously to power. |
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And ruling over it like a theocratic despot, proclaiming the creed du jour, demanding obeisance, excommunicating heretics, was a dark-eyed chubby-faced writer called André Breton. |
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He runs Tunisia as a police state, where the country's large, Soviet-style press does little more than laud the despot and his tight-fisted regime. |
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We have only one option in the face of a despot like Milosevic. |
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Survivors of the wrecks had been taken prisoner by the island's despot Isaac Komnenos. |
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In pagan religions, the king was often seen as a kind of god and so was an unchallengeable despot. |
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The advent of Protestantism saw something of a return to the idea of a mere unchallengeable despot. |
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Years of civil war had left Rome in a state of near lawlessness, but the Republic was not prepared to accept the control of Octavian as a despot. |
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In his view, the Roman Empire was to be governed as a divine monarchy with himself as the benevolent despot at its head. |
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As Emperor, he saw himself as the new Augustus, an enlightened despot destined to guide the Roman Empire into a new era of Flavian renaissance. |
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Please do not let yourselves be used by a despot. |
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The psychoanalysis describes the superego as despot and cruel. |
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The revolutions of 1919 and 1952 both exchanged one despot for another. |
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Submerged by the system he supposedly runs, the alleged despot disappears from the scene. |
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Indeed, such is the determination to rush this report through that we abandon due process in this House to a degree that would make a despot blush! |
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He is a vile despot and we must cease all links with him and his regime. |
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But it cannot be if we stand by and pay lip service to a despot like Mugabe, who is not only destroying his country and his people, but ensuring that the aid that is given does not even reach those who really need it. |
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Many of the sappers were miners of Serbian origin sent from Novo Brdo by the Serbian despot. |
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In fact, we should have taken a stand against this regime and this despot a long, long time ago, rather than protesting about Minister Calderoli's T-shirts! |
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President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has for years acted as a despot while his government, which despises the population, has suppressed all attempts at independent expression without any reaction from the international community. |
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He was a successful basketball coach, but many people regarded him as a petty despot. |
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As despot, he had no difficulty in accepting some of the changes resulting from the social transformation of the previous 25 years, including equality of all before the law. |
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