Despots

They had despots like Hitler and Stalin; we have despots like Bernanke, Draghi, and Abe.

But it’s not just the despots and tyrants who keep me awake at night – it’s the engineers, executives and politicians a reality.

It would have put an end to government by the people and delighted despots everywhere.

We have a government that helps despots, launders money, and generally fails.

Your authoritarian design broke their spirit, the spirit of a multitude of Jews who suffered from persecution and oppression, under the reign of terror by despots in foreign lands.

Bad male leaders were tyrannical and power-hungry despots, whereas bad female leaders were much more often deemed plain incompetent.

It is exactly this full-fledged hypocrisy that the despots of the secular tyranny in North Korea realised in dealing with Washington.

Meanwhile, the sadistic Kim family in North Korea is notorious for slaughtering and starving to death ; terrorists and despots have offed hundreds of thousands more in Africa and Asia.

This is not a particularly new development; they have been in the catbird seat for about a decade, despite the heroic efforts of our favorite Middle Eastern despots.

This is the way that great nations fall: when people give in to authoritarian despots before they are even under their rule.

And war is no toy for would-be despots to play with whenever they feel like it.

Even before the pandemic, Bolsonaro stood out within a group of elected despots – yet with Covid-19, he has truly surpassed his peers.

Is there no honor among totalitarian despots?

We often focus on the bluster and bullying of despots, but they don't rise to power through sheer invective.

When it comes to despots, he takes their side over that of U.S. Intelligence.

And it will also prove the feasibility of a technical concept that despots around the world may desire to emulate.

For many years, the UN has stood as a crude tool of despots and dictators, pretending to have an iota of credibility.

He has been accused of hypocrisy in denouncing Trump while ignoring despots such as China’s Xi Jinping.

I think that her majestic statue in the Victoria Courts compound should be cleaned and preserved to remind future generations that while Europe had some despots as head of state, she was a unique Queen.

Their ultimate fate offers little incentive for future despots to give up their atomic dreams.