| The continent's leadership roll includes a sizeable rogues' gallery, including despots such as Sani Abacha and Idi Amin. |
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| He was, of course, a consummate thief, but he was probably not the most thoroughgoing plunderer among the world's despots. |
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| Rumors of brutality increased the cache of despots, augmenting their income through the collection of protection money and taxes. |
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| First of all, we have been supporting despots, dictators, and oligarchs in all those states for a variety of purposes. |
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| Most threw out despots after years of growing prosperity, learning and interaction with the world through trade, travel and media. |
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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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| I wonder to myself if the delusions of world leaders, tyrants, despots and even elected officials work the same way. |
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| The Party's charter called for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, and its officials took orders from Soviet despots. |
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| History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions. |
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| Like all despots, he has built up a massive personality cult around himself. |
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| After all, the 20th century was a time when the world sang the praises of despots and despotism. |
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| Like anyone else fleeing tyranny, many Muslims came to this country to escape the dictates of despots religious or otherwise. |
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| When people are hungry and afraid and desperate, that doesn't happen, and they put despots in to take care of everything. |
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| A liberated people had nothing to fear from the despots and aristocrats of feudal Europe. |
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| What we don't want is Third World despots harming our economic interests abroad or murdering our citizens at home. |
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| And then there's an opportunistic foreign policy that equates despots with democrats and which has baffled the most seasoned of diplomats. |
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| Paris Hilton's approach to self-portraiture is, in fact, akin to that of the vainest despots. |
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| Now that the cold war no longer impels America and Russia to prop up unrepentant despots, Africa's rulers like to be seen to be legitimate. |
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| Despite such attacks, Pakistan's press has refused to be cowed by criminals, militants, despots and tyrants. |
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| These affinities are arguably at the heart of the 40-year dalliance of Iranian and Syrian despots. |
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| And President Bashar al-Assad, no doubt, sees that his coterie of regional despots is thinning out. |
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| Often I distrust figures for the numbers of victims of colonialism because the same sources downplay or ignore the victims of African or Asian despots, or of socialism. |
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| Mr Davis depicts oriental despots as benign and western satraps as a blight. |
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| Such a split would only delight the despots and rogue States which threaten freedom and human rights. |
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| On this continent of ours, we have often had to deal with despots whose intentions were apparent from the outset, as are those of Saddam Hussein. |
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| The despots often remain in power and we roll out the red carpet for them far too often. |
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| The cannier despots know that whispers of dissent among the few can turn into howls of anger among the many in a Tunisian trice. |
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| What better argument exists for decrying the acts of despots? |
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| The Americans support many of the despots, dictators and thugs around the world. |
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| Human life is being debased by despots, dictators and fundamentalists of all types. |
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| The Castros are the latest in a long line of despots he believed he could negotiate with. |
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| Also, the war generation lived through times when politicians and generals, dictators and despots, managed to squander untold millions of young lives. |
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| Most of the tyrants, despots, and dictators are sincerely convinced that their rule is beneficial for the people, that theirs is government for the people. |
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| Time and time again the world has seen despots who justified their horrific action as God's work. |
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| A danger now arose in the shape of a conspiracy by the deposed despots, the Orsini, and of some of Cesare's own condottieri. |
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| We need to make liberal education not merely something we have a right to and are ready to defend against despots, but something we give freely to our young people. |
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| The market in weapons is now so competitive that some of the most horrific despots are getting bargain basement deals for weapons of mass destruction. |
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| Or, even, the despots which Greek etymological origin points to the landlord, the unique lord of the house, vanishing point of a characteristically teleological system. |
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| I can only advise certain despots to be on their guard in future. |
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| It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coca in provocative quantities or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner. |
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| She observed that governments have created the problem by selling millions of new and surplus small arms, allowing weapons to flow into the hands of despots, bandits, human rights abusers and other misusers. |
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| He is the most urbane of despots, forever sniffing at the white roses he so cherishes, and scrupulously polite, even when shedding blood by the bucketload. |
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| If it should implode, the geopolitics of the entire Middle East would be turned upside down. But do not assume that the heady scent of jasmine will dispatch the rest of the region's despots. |
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| This is the picture of an absolute despotism, different from other despotisms only in the element of distance between the despots and their subjects. |
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| Although most of the Bandung leaders were sloganeering despots in their own countries, the movement captivated the imagination of many guilt-ridden Western intellectuals. |
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| However, as the past few weeks have shown, winking at secular despots, as they tighten the screws on their disgruntled people, may in the long run be riskier. Tunisia's upheaval has only just begun. |
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| It is as if Fate has decreed that this most pauperised nation on earth should not be able to throw the chains and shackles of despots and vampire fundamentalists away so easily. |
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| The children of despots often hasten their fathers' downfall. |
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| He is still in office, his people are still suffering and he taking advantage of the situation like other despots who are leading countries in a dictatorial fashion while being billionaires. |
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| As we enter the new era of international law, the despots, tyrants, terrorists and dictators are being forced to understand that they do not enjoy the immunity they thought they had. |
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| Others have behaved like despots again this year. |
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| The democracy of despots is a dangerous facade. |
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| That is the very thing we can no longer accept, however, because the victims and their families have been fighting for a long time for a trial at which the despots will have to face up to their responsibility. |
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| While the grand corruption of despots such as Sani Abacha and Mobutu Sese Seko receives most of the press, ordinary Africans suffer daily from demands for bribes to access basic services, according to household surveys. |
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| Like other enlightened despots, Catherine the Great played a key role in fostering the arts, sciences, and education. |
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| The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. |
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| Some Enlightenment thinkers collaborated with Enlightened despots, absolutist rulers who attempted to forcibly impose some of the new ideas about government into practice. |
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| They were in a manner absolute despots in their little domains, lording it, if so disposed, over both law and gospel, and accountable to none but the mother-country. |
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