| 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. |
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| Maybe it's time to organise a trip to some tinpot African country to boost my image. |
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| Without the latter, he would just be a tinpot dictator of a small 3rd world country. |
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| Why on earth is the USA supposed to be responsible for the unending disasters of every African tinpot country? |
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| It is absolute blackmail and that was said to members of the Authority and various chairmen by tinpot politicians. |
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| We are not part of a tinpot dictatorship with officials filling their Swiss bank accounts. |
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| At the other end of the spectrum are innumerable tinpot workshops, employing handfuls of people and outdated methods. |
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| Why bother with Spain, a backward little economy fenced off from the European Community, run by a decrepit, tinpot dictator? |
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| Already, the broad population is profoundly embittered with the corrupt tinpot despotism. |
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| 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. |
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| But the trend for tinpot lifestyle dictators can't last forever. |
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| Within months, the carefully groomed leader became a tinpot dictator, setting a trend that would endure in all the fractured states of West Africa. |
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| This is the perennial excuse of tinpot dictators the world over. |
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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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| And stablemate Fabio Eduardo Moli could give Matt Skelton similar grief when they fight for the tinpot WBU heavyweight title at Wembley tonight. |
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| I am not impugning the many Members here in this House who believe, on the basis of profound inner conviction, that this tinpot dictator can be got rid of only by the use of armed force. |
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| The government had been caught napping by a tinpot dictator. |
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| With something so critical to our future, why are important decisions such as honouring Jack Nicklaus, left to some tinpot council? |
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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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| Britain is not some tinpot third world dictatorship where the only newspapers permitted are those which publish what the Government wants them to publish. |
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