(1) Right now, with Kabila already 10 years in power and looking immovable, despotism seems to have democracy on the ropes.
(2) All the while, a long list of corrupt and venal despots turned their rule into virtual kleptocracies and stole their children's futures.
(3) One is the stubborn mystery of how a giant of its liberation movements, an intellectual who showed forgiveness and magnanimity years before Mandela emerged from jail, could turn into the living caricature of despotism.
(4) If it fails to do so, it will rightly stand accused of placing a higher value on its alliance with murderous despots than the security of its own people.
(5) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
(6) It took Harry Guy Bartholomew, first editorial director and then chairman after Rothermere unloaded his shares, to run the business on despotic lines and, with a mixture of flair and vindictive thuggery, create one of the great popular newspapers.
(7) The Red Army attacked despotic gentry and evil landlords, people who exploited our country and exploited individuals," she says, recalling her reasons for joining.
(8) The tabloid conclusion is that the North's leaders are crazed – Kim Jong-un is a "deranged despot", the Sun wrote on Friday – while the Team America version is that they are idiotic.
(9) Its words are an attack on tyrants and despots, and a call for liberty.
(10) Even though the event was celebrating victory over fascism, some of the world’s most notorious despots were in attendance, including Uzbekistan’s Islam Karimov, Turkmenistan’s Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe.
(11) "We couldn't believe our eyes," grinned Shamad, recalling the sight of Tunisia's ousted despot, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, fleeing a land he had ruled for 23 years.
(12) When it comes, the fall of a famous despot sends a shiver that is felt across the world.
(13) Jacobs checked Moses's mad worship of the car and his despotic excesses.
(14) In 1989, according to the Washington Post , he was hired to massage the image of the despot Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) for $1m a year.
(15) Responding to suggestions by pro-coup pundits that he should be more statesman-like, he was adamant: “I won’t change my personality, because I am a person with multiple personalities.” As with other interesting despots, none of this affects his ability to wield absolute power.
(16) What of the jobs that we’re told would be endangered if we adopted the exotic policy of not selling arms to despots?
(17) As Assange noted drily: "It's nicer, particularly given the frequency of equatorial despotism, to be tortured in the computer room."
(18) In an age of infinite European promise - summed up by the annus mirabilis of 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell and the countries of eastern Europe and former Yugoslavia freed themselves from Soviet-style despotism - Slobodan Milosevic, who has died aged 64, was the wild card.
(19) In championing the oppressed, deterring aggression, curbing the excesses of despots, challenging the victimisation of scapegoats, tackling poverty or preventing genocide, the international community still has a long way to go.
(20) Pogrund and cameraman Dewald Aukema pick up not only the whirlwind nature of that first head-of-state visit, but the exotic and breathtaking beauty of Africa and Mandela's buttoned lip as he visits the lavish basilicas built by despots on the land of the poor.
(1) The former SAS officer was helping organise a coup plot against the tyrannical President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, and Mark was anxious to join in.
(2) Lupita Nyong'o was shortlisted for the best supporting actress prize for her turn as an abused slave, while Michael Fassbender joined the best supporting actor race as a tyrannical plantation owner.
(3) There must be no compromise with Eritrea's tyrannical Afewerki regime Read more In the view of Neven Mimica, the EU commissioner for international cooperation and development, the package will help to tackle the root causes of migration from Eritrea.
(4) The Walworth Farce, which opens at the National Theatre next week, focuses on a tyrannical Irishman who has kept his two sons locked in a decrepit flat since the trio arrived in London almost two decades before.
(5) The actions of the police are showing the public what a tyrannical government looks like,” said Bonnie Leung, 27.
(6) Before taking over the wildlife refuge, Ritzheimer – like other extremists before him – posted a “goodbye” video for his family rationalizing his actions as defending freedom against a “tyrannical government”.
(7) All tyrants believe they are driven by a core Goodness, but that doesn't make them any less tyrannical.
(8) He says he was tortured at a site in the airport grounds and then sent to Libya , where Gaddafi had long seen him as one of the biggest threats to his tyrannical four-decade rule.
(9) On big issues it might be good, but on small ones it's tyrannical.
(10) Oh God, deal with the usurpers and oppressors and tyrannical Jews.
(11) At the core of many of the complaints is the belief that these entertainment spectaculars are tyrannical in their inflexibility.
(12) Some people say good things, some people say bad things … that’s history, and I would never use any kind of legal process like to try to suppress it.” Wales, who founded Wikipedia in 2001, has been outspoken against the right to be forgotten, frequently describing it as “censorship” and “tyrannical”.
(13) Tantawi then tried but failed to placate his critics by demanding that Israel end tyrannical practices against the Palestinians.
(14) Social structure (hierarchy) was studied by the intruder method and social function (peaceful or tyrannic hierarchy) by inspection of the subordinate voles for wounds.
(15) The pavilion itself, a power-temple designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer in 1938, acts as a tyrannical shell for a reconstruction of the Kanzlerbungalow, or Chancellor's Bungalow, built in Bonn in 1964 by modernist architect Sep Ruf.
(16) What would any tyrannical regime possessing WMD think viewing the history of the world's diplomatic dance with Saddam?
(17) In a country where power in the workplace has shifted so decisively towards employers – benevolent or tyrannical, it’s the luck of the draw – you can see why self-employment is almost a refuge for many.
(18) Yet, to make this thing happen, 250 homes were demolished and families were forcibly evicted , the project tarnished by the tyrannical regime’s catalogue of human rights abuses – a factor that has since plagued Hadid’s other projects, including the World Cup stadium in Qatar.
(19) During his tyrannical rule, Gaddafi turned what was a sleepy coastal village into a town of garish concrete, hoping to fulfill a megalomaniac dream to make it the capital of a United States of Africa.
(20) Here were states whose leadership cared for no-one but themselves; were often cruel and tyrannical towards their own people; and who saw WMD as a means of defending themselves against any attempt external or internal to remove them and who, in their chaotic and corrupt state, were in any event porous and irresponsible with neither the will nor capability to prevent terrorists who also hated the West, from exploiting their chaos and corruption.