What's in it for dictators who want no part of a democratic experiment in their region? |
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Intervention in domestic politics often cements dictators in place by uniting the people against what they see as foreign aggression. |
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Switzerland is awash with retired dictators and kleptocrats with their millions. |
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Most commentators argue that it will stand or fall on whether the continent's leaders possess the will to deal with dictators and kleptocrats. |
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Right-wing libertarians in the US view Castro as one of the nastier dictators in the world. |
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They can't simply choose which dictators they want toppled and expect us to come running each time. |
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In foreign policy, its hard to claim the moral high road when you're stumbling down the low road arm-in-arm with repressive dictators. |
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Some countries turned to dictators like Hitler for economic and political salvation. |
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Somewhere even the dictators and autocrats who send ambassadors to dialogue with ambassadors from free states know that to be true. |
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We understand we are making the terrorists, dictators and autocrats nervous. |
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Political leaders, especially autocrats and dictators, have always used writing for propaganda purposes. |
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Outside the bounds of obedience are the orders or policies established by dictators and despotic satraps. |
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In those states where former dictators won elections, no real reform has taken place. |
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In a play packed with theatrical metaphors, he suggests even dictators are actors. |
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But now the die is cast, and said brutal dictators and corrupt monarchs no longer have the ability to stop the future. |
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Neocons tell you that every second-rate nation is ready for democracy, if only we can topple their dictators. |
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I can't spend my days worrying about tidal waves and earthquakes and crazed dictators. |
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In its more moderated and diffused form it blamed the absence of democracy in totalitarian regimes not on the dictators but on the democracies. |
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The country's dictators remain so terrified of the lure of democracy and its defenders that they ordered a total blackout on the news. |
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The confusion of national and personal interest is not uncommon among dictators, however urbane. |
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He should be bracketed with dictators as Hitler and Stalin for crimes against humanity. |
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This is why there are no popular uprisings to overthrow the dictators, because it is perceived as pointless. |
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There is no talk of Pearl Harbor, or of fascist, military dictators, or occupied nations, or a fight for democracy. |
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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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Egypt is a mock democracy, and Saudi Arabia is a theological monarchy oligarchy run by dictators called the Royal Family. |
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But such a collection of dictators could become a tourist attraction once freedom comes to the country. |
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How are we to break free from the dispiriting sequence of dictators and their henchmen? |
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It spurred students and workers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to oppose the military strongmen, dictators and demagogues in their countries. |
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She also stressed the role of people power in overthrowing two former dictators in the Philippines in the last 15 years. |
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Comparing politicians to evil dictators is offensive, shrill, and coarsens the political discourse. |
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And here he was representing one of history's most ruthless dictators as a dreamy, soft, poetic, kind of chap. |
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Nations under the iron-handed control of dictators have been getting ever closer to being able to produce their own nukes. |
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No. Are they offering us a new foreign policy or another way of dealing with dictators and terrorists? |
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The question of alliances with dictators, of deals with the devil, can be approached openly, forthrightly and without any need for defensiveness. |
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In stark contrast to so many other dictators, he never encouraged a cult of personality. |
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And he was able to mix as easily with presidents and prime ministers and dictators as with the common man. |
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Mobutu, Marcos, Suharto and other notorious dictators were propped up by massive loans. |
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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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Seven weekly dictators grind us down with their controlling, grabby personalities. |
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He has stood up to petty tyrants, from dogmatic Communists, through McCarthyites to third-world dictators. |
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The company depends on grabbing diamonds from whoever controls them, even if they are tyrants or dictators. |
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Assassinating dictators and toppling undemocratic regimes doesn't sound so bad, in the end. |
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They have allowed terrorists, anarchists, dictators and religious fanatics to flourish within their borders. |
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If the genes of violence are in many of us, why are they less likely to be in democratically elected rulers than in dictators? |
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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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Finally the republic was torn to pieces by rival power-hungry tribunes or dictators like Pompey, Sulla, and Julius Caesar. |
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You can't go far wrong with a foreign policy whose opponents are mainly dictators, anti-American European politicians and leftist whackos. |
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Nevertheless, even absolute monarchs or totalitarian dictators are constrained by forces beyond their control. |
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Intimidation of critics and the press is the hallmark of dictators and other absolutist weaklings. |
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When it comes to Germans and their relationship with dictators, Enzensberger knows whereof he speaks. |
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But the trend for tinpot lifestyle dictators can't last forever. |
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Even if they do not manage to take and hold power, they are examples of the dissolute lives that sons of dictators often lead. |
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Are questionable business practices and palling around with dictators his new platform? |
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And at CPAC, King told gave conservatives an enemies list that lumped liberals in with genocidal dictators like Stalin and Mao. |
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Due to the air of mystery about him, he also was one of the most parodied dictators ever. |
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Like all dictators, he nurtured an illusion of impregnability. |
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You managed to do a good deed, defeating the most sinister of dictators, who destroyed the country, killed our compatriots and wasted the wealth of the fatherland. |
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It will always contain dictators, autocrats and murderous opportunists who will seek power and its spoils without regard for the death and suffering of others. |
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Yes, many of these dictators are nasty and evil but obfuscating the argument with comparative deflections doesn't alter the original argumentative premise. |
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They are not representative of the public and are behaving like dictators. |
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London is a major station for the travelling carnival of creators, dictators, scenesters and professional narcissists who parade between the world's fashion flashpoints. |
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A trademark outfit is vital to sending out the right signals of imperious power as real-life dictators understand all too well. |
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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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Acclaimed British painter Annie Kevans imagines the inner child of celebrities, dictators, and presidents. |
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Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants. |
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That's why, for much of history, furs and skins from the more aggressive carnivores have been an essential part of the ceremonial dress of kings, emperors and dictators. |
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The police state system that propped up dictators from Algiers to Islamabad for decades was unsustainable. |
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If anything demonstrates the power of comedy to make dictators quake in their boots, it is the events of the past few days. |
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At best, he and other dictators will draw the lesson that they need to commit their butchery in other ways. |
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This is the perennial excuse of tinpot dictators the world over. |
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Kings and dictators might be very good at imposing order, but as early bankers learned the hard was they can't be trusted to pay back their debts. |
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Sooner or later, even the most absolute monarchs or dictators would feel the need to confirm their right to power with a show of popular endorsement. |
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Some believe the answer is even more support for dictators who keep the lid on this tinderbox. |
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Instead of building bridges of friendship to the people of Central Asia, we are instead aligning ourselves with the brutal dictators who oppress them. |
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Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons or missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies. |
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In the British sphere of influence, however, what the Queen does and says is proper by definition so she does not have to worry about petty would-be dictators. |
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To stand up to the depilation dictators, to ignore all diet and detox regimes, to embrace ageing, wrinkles, and grey hair. |
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If Western food aid results in massive theft, corruption, and re-exportation, can you imagine what kleptomaniac dictators could do with expensive HIV medicine? |
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Nevertheless, not all historical comparisons made at this time drew on contemporary military dictators. |
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Stalin and Hitler, for example, were dictators in favor of freedom of speech for views they liked only. |
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Under Soviet dictators, Russians going to Siberia were often headed for the gulags, or forced-labor camps. |
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From nuclear-reactor makers to dictators, see who else BM has worked for. |
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Boulanger however was not the stuff of which dictators are made. |
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During nearly 42 years in power in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi was one of the world's most eccentric dictators. |
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You grew up under dictators who would have put people to the sword if they dared hand them their hats and invite them to buzz off. |
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In most of Europe, as well as in Japan and most of Latin America, nation after nation turned to dictators and authoritarian regimes. |
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Following their victory at the Battle of Philippi, the Triumvirate divided the Roman Republic among themselves and ruled as military dictators. |
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Until recently, several East African countries were riven with political coups, ethnic violence and oppressive dictators. |
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Churchill's attitude towards the fascist dictators was ambiguous. |
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The first, a fantasy reworking of Shakespeare, made little impression, but the second, a satire on European dictators, attracted more notice, much of it unfavourable. |
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During the apartheid era, social engineering had created the Bantustans or black homelands with tinpot dictators, who were stooges of the white regime. |
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So far the major beneficiaries of the boom in gold have been deposed South American dictators, Middle Eastern potentates, and the gnomes of Zurich. |
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Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled Guatemala with an iron fist during 1982-83, said he plans to run for president in November despite a law banning former dictators from office. |
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Following independence from Spain in 1811, Paraguay was ruled by a series of dictators who generally implemented isolationist and protectionist policies. |
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