Those who live by the despotic ego, fall by the despotic ego.
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Mr Harper spurned them as talking shops for despotic regimes.
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Above all, she provides cover for her racist, despotic boss.
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"In despotic times she speaks of human hope," he said.
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Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was despotic, oppressive, criminal and worse.
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The AfD has described the disqualification of its candidates as "despotic".
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Like the despotic Kims, Cuba's regime keeps its citizens poor and unfree.
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He sent his vice-president, Mike Pence, to denounce Cuba's "despotic regime".
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As long as Cuba stays poor and despotic, the tradition will thrive.
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Centrally planned, collectivist — these kinds of political economic models, they are despotic.
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As with most despotic regimes, the Khmer Rouge didn't stop at murder.
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People spoke of a "Lewis doctrine" of imposing democracy on despotic regimes.
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And where Turkey is well governed (if increasingly despotic), Libya is in chaos.
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When peaceful protesters rise up against a despotic government, Americans are naturally supportive.
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He has richly earned his staff's mistrust with his erratic and despotic behavior.
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It is certainly a despotic and horrible government, but "rogue" implies illegitimate/criminal.
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The second is to learn to live with a nuclear-armed despotic regime.
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Hitler used the fire, whose cause is still disputed, to impose despotic terror.
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Every leader, no matter how despotic, relies on the consent of his people.
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The government of Uzbekistan announced that its despotic president, Islam Karimov, had been hospitalised.
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Reliable data are not available to measure despotic countries like North Korea and Cuba.
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As we approached the Orpheus 1 the look in Klimt's eye was unnatural, despotic.
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He objected to the destruction of a street mural depicting despotic hooknosed Jewish bankers.
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"This move unmasks his despotic regime and his fear of accountability," the post read.
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The Silver trial revealed a despotic figure, more feared than loved by his subjects.
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He said oligarch is a pejorative term that means someone who wields despotic power.
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Danny Crichton: I mean, we're talking about theocratic despotic governments that murder their own people.
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Today, poverty is rife in the country and it is ruled by a despotic government.
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All of this is anathema to the despotic, male-dominated nationalism fueled by Mr. Erdogan.
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But let's say, for example, that President Trump really likes the despotic ruler of the Philippines.
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And diplomats are scraping together plans for an once-unthinkable meeting with North Korea's despotic leader.
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But when you've been reigning for a while, it can come to seem despotic, ungenerous, false.
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He could be a capricious and despotic critic, whose judgments were beyond appeal and often feared.
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Both have blocked international action against genocidal and despotic regimes, such as those of Syria and Sudan.
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In the ranks of despotic regimes, the DPRK (as it's known) ranks among the worst on Earth.
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China, Russia, Cuba and Iran are also despotic regimes that fear the will of their own people.
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We cannot remain timidly silent when despotic regimes try to silence the few remaining voices of dissent.
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What will the subordination of religious to secular if despotic authority mean for the geography of Islam?
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But on Monday, some of the candidate's supporters said fears that he could be despotic were overblown.
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Not surprisingly, conservatives have decried Obama's "despotic lawlessness," arguing that his use of executive power is unprecedented.
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For Trump, that amounted to a triumphant outcome in his extraordinary gamble with the rogue kingdom's despotic leader.
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The course, as outlined in Lawler's lawsuit and several others, can be characterized as despotic and sexually charged.
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He had long served the dictator as prime minister and was widely expected to maintain his despotic system.
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From early in his rule, he proved to be despotic: confiscating property, jailing and torturing opponents and counterrevolutionaries.
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Oh, and that was also while taking out a small despotic force around the size of the Barbadian Army.
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"You know the last time I jokingly said that the papers start saying, 'He's got despotic tendencies,'" said Trump.
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They are mostly male, and almost all have fled compulsory, indefinite military service on behalf of their despotic government.
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That makes the thuggish intrusions of despotic power—the Helds' deportation, the shooting of Henriette—all the more wrenching.
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Hungary forgot that Congress has no desire to encourage despotic attacks on the many American universities with branches overseas.
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Mr Kim, who inherited his throne from his equally despotic father and grandfather, may also have inherited their duplicity.
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We see despotic women at the head of totalitarian governments leading genocides, and women leading cults and criminal empires.
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They'll come around at some point, think reasonably, and activate essential checks and balances on the neo-despotic Trump.
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These were still traditional revolutions in many respects, with brave, mostly young citizens taking on corrupt and despotic regimes.
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Tourism to North Korea "helps to fund one of the most brutal and despotic regimes in the world," Rep.
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Looming large in both narratives are crumbling homes, despotic leaders, and a country on the brink of irreversible change.
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The White House and its allies argue that the Cuban government remains despotic and must be pressured to reform.
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A glowing cross appears behind her back as if to indicate Christian values will soon replace Asia's despotic past.
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Stalin had no problem with centralised despotic states per se, but still saw Asian communism as a force to support.
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"They are despotic, they are ruthless, they are cruel to their own people, but they are not crazy," he said.
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They should also resonate with an increasingly despotic leader Washington supports and arms: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt.
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He openly condemns the despotic rule of the party-state, and he refuses to stop writing or posting his criticism.
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The hyperinflation he cites, and all other problems, basically stem from the despotic, violent and dogmatic rule of Robert Mugabe.
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The personal chemistry that Trump has cultivated -- and loudly trumpeted -- with the young despotic leader remains intact, the President insisted.
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I think the example the West is setting at the moment is emboldening leaders around the world to be more despotic.
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You mean beyond fighting a despotic regime, doing more television, launching a podcast, all while raising three wonderful kids under six?
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It sure sounds better than reports that Facebook is fueling genocide in Myanmar by letting a despotic leader spread hate speech.
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They live in the harshest conditions under the despotic Hamas regime and the ever-watchful eye of Israel's Shabak security service.
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Clearly the euphoria generated by the Arab Spring, which spread to many other despotic places, was excessive, to put it mildly.
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Maybe then we might begin to understand why the government in Tunis is democratic, whereas the one in Cairo is despotic.
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At every step, as independence morphed into economic collapse, rigged elections and despotic rule, Mr. Mnangagwa was at Mr. Mugabe's shoulder.
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Moi was one of the last of Africa's so-called Big Men, who presided over their countries in increasingly despotic ways.
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The despotic King Atar, having become jealous of the heroic soldier Tarare, has Tarare's wife abducted and installed in a harem.
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Reforming governments who replace authoritarian or despotic ones tend to be keenest to tackle torture, often confronting their own army or police.
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But even if we don't get rid of the despotic Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, don't we still need to vanquish ISIS?
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But something strange happens when I bring up Donald Trump's un-American and despotic sentiments to his liberty loving and patriotic supporters.
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Given the threat of mutual destruction, our strategy toward North Korea has been one of waiting for the despotic dynasty's internal demise.
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And it makes his gradual evolution from principled lawyer to agent of the despotic state feel all the grander and more Shakespearean.
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In Sochi and Astana, those fighting the dictator are now sitting down with the same power breathing life into his despotic government.
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From the 12th century onward, however, a more uniform and less rational form of Islam was imposed by despotic caliphs and sultans.
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The way to keep moving forward is not to go backward to a despotic and failed system in any form of socialism.
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The firm's willingness to work with despotic governments and corrupt business empires is the logical conclusion of seeking profit at all costs.
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Like many survivors of despotic regimes, Park can't pinpoint exactly when the brainwashing began, other to say it started in her earliest childhood.
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He is governing in ways that are despotic and authoritarian, but he's extremely good at packaging himself as a darling of the West.
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"Asia" was a term invented by Europeans to emphasise their own distinctiveness; to Kipling-era imperialists, Asian societies were backward, despotic and unchanging.
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We know that Pharaoh's Egypt isn't the only place and time where children and families have suffered at the hands of despotic leaders.
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" Referring to President Donald Trump, McCain wrote, "He has declined to distinguish the actions of our government from the crimes of despotic ones.
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No single bureaucrat should have despotic powers of the purse and be in control of a budget of this size without Congressional approval.
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There have been unabashed enablers, a shrinking but resolute camp of left-wing governments that have served as apologists for the despotic president.
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Orïsha used to be steeped in magic, but a despotic king ripped magic from the land and slaughtered the magic users, or maji.
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Here we are invited to feel fear for a miscegenous relationship: a regressive, traditional, despotic East and a progressive, modern, free-spirited West.
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In fairness, Saudi Arabia has made progress in some areas, including its financing of terrorism, but it remains despotic, intolerant and misogynist. Enough!
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In January, U.S. Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, said Trump had embraced the despotic language of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
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Right-wing politicians and football bosses had questioned his loyalties after he allowed himself to be photographed with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's despotic president.
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In a report published in 1992 by the Center for Public Integrity, the company's roster of clients was reported to include numerous despotic regimes.
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A central African bloc, oil-soaked and despotic, uses one; the other circulates in eight poorer, more open countries to the west (see map).
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His decision appeared to suggest that as long as a foreign power enriches the United States it would face no censure for despotic behavior.
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In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, Prince's critics often characterized him as despotic, self-righteous, vain, and arrogant, but, later on, the narrative shifted.
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But Israelis have no reason to believe that it will look like anything except the way Gaza does today: militant, despotic, desperate and aggressive.
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We chose a judge, and put Creon, the despotic ruler, on the side of law, and Antigone, the rebel, on the side of conscience.
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Despotic leaders often go to great lengths to malign these groups and blunt their influence by limiting their ability to be seen and heard.
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But more than that, it's still relevant and necessary today, unloading confused rage upon despotic administrations and—crucially—not denying a future for humanity.
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"If you look at who Abe admires around the world, he likes strong leaders like Putin, Modi and Erdogan, who have despotic tendencies," he said.
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Karl Marx had identified what he called the "Asiatic mode of production", distinguished by a lack of private property rights and a centralised despotic state.
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Other presidents have made the same journey -- all peering into the North through binoculars -- but none have actually met the despotic leaders who rule it.
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Apple has insisted that the new security measure is primarily aimed at protecting users in despotic countries, not at making law enforcement's job more difficult.
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It is easy to ridicule the fondness Trump has for the despotic ruler and his assertion that there is no more North Korean nuclear threat.
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If Saudi Arabia wants to continue its reckless policies abroad and despotic behavior at home, it's free to do so, but not with American support.
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Just ahead of Trump's announcement, CIA Director Mike Pompeo Thursday called Iran a "thuggish police state" and a "despotic theocracy," comparing its ambitions to ISIS.
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Magnanimity known mostly as an alien custom among the top leadership of the (Despotic) People's Republic of Korea, Kim's gesture serves above all the DPRK.
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The jubilation and the sense of renewal that suffused Zimbabwe in 1980 dissipated during the 37 years of Mr. Mugabe's uninterrupted and increasingly despotic rule.
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"We think this would not be happening if not for the support of Trump and Kushner for the despotic government of Saudi Arabia," Sanders said.
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" Iran's intelligence service and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "are the cudgels of a despotic theocracy, with the IRGC accountable only to a Supreme Leader.
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He was a Jewish child hiding in Nazi-occupied territory, marked for death by one of the most violent and despotic regimes in world history.
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J. Toynbee, a British historian, said that the downfall of a state is attributable to internal conflicts associated with despotic rule, not to external threats.
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The President also cast himself as a relatively enlightened ex-Soviet leader, at least in comparison with some of his more despotic Central Asia neighbors.
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And, unlike Voltaire, a top-down modernizer who saw despotic monarchs as likely allies of enlightened people, Rousseau looked forward to a world without them.
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Meanwhile, neighboring nations in the East have advocated maintaining the status quo, arguing that isolation tactics will do little to overthrow the country's despotic regime.
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We first see Sandeep Singh as a boy who runs away from practice because of a despotic coach who hits his wards with a hockey stick.
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Yet they have also delivered huge rewards to despotic, rentier regimes, encouraged cartels and over-centralised economies, and never borne the cost of their environmental impact.
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Nobody was awkward enough to ask how that squares with his boss's fear-mongering against refugees, or frequent praise for despotic strongmen elsewhere in the world.
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The good news is that in recent decades all countries, rich or poor, democratic or despotic, have made huge strides in getting young people into classrooms.
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Now the contest pits a despotic and, at times, seemingly deranged President against shocked and horrified bureaucrats scrambling to safeguard the basic principles of our democracy.
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Its portrayal of the plot to assassinate a despotic emperor as an allegory for our current political climate didn't seem to raise many eyebrows at first.
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But as rogue militancy waned and police and military abuses continued, Karachi's residents began to question if they were merely trading one despotic regime for another.
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My plea to Venezuelans who oppose Mr. Maduro's despotic rule is to reach across our divisions and reunite around the common project of a better country.
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For centuries Hungary has been subject to monarchic, autocratic, despotic and totalitarian governments that were occasionally disrupted by revolutions, only to find relative stability in 1989.
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He is also blamed by Mr Moreno for stirring up the violence during the protests—allegedly in cahoots with his friend Nicolás Maduro, Chávez's despotic successor.
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Creon (spoken by Kazunori Abe, movement by Kouichi Ohtaka), the brothers' uncle and their city's despotic new king, has deemed Polyneices a traitor unworthy of burial.
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Linking Al Qaeda to a despotic Middle East regime was exactly the pretext that the George W. Bush administration used to invade Iraq, with catastrophic results.
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One of her recurring themes is that through an endless succession of despotic emperors and sultans, the city's underdogs have always had their say in its destiny.
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But eight years later, after a photoshoot with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's despotic president, and a humiliating World Cup exit, Mr Özil has become a national scapegoat.
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The U.S. could conduct large surgical strikes targeting the despotic regime's missile launch, storage facilities and mobile missile units, as well as production facilities and research facilities.
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My despotic ways all changed in 2005, when we started our present company and intentionally built a portfolio that would be jointly managed by two of us.
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Ruled for years and years by despotic Pan-Arab Nationalism parties, the Kurds, a pro-Western, self-sufficient and proud people, were on the path to independence.
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Whatever the Saudis claim, the abiding result of the Khashoggi tragedy has been to paint Saudi Arabia as a vicious, uncivilized land run by a despotic family.
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Gary Shteyngart and Jonathan Lethem, in their new novels, to name just two examples, sent pilgrims out into an America that seemed vastly colder and more despotic.
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The West Florissant Avenue Great Streets Master Plan is a 200-page document that reimagines the despotic stretch of concrete as one of the country's prettiest thoroughfares.
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The NYT does not use "rogue" to describe Saudi Arabia, which is another despotic regime that also supports policies like Salafism that supports terrorists around the world.
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The constant is that the problems created by despotic leaders in the Middle East -- and US responses to them -- carry on from President to President to President.
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The Cuban government, they contend, has become no less despotic and must be pressured to reform through strict enforcement of existing sanctions, public admonishment and diplomatic isolation.
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In fact, the President has had harsher words for our longtime allies than for many of the despotic leaders he now counts on his list of friends.
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The conditions in Africa — deadly conflicts, despotic rulers and extreme poverty — that send people across the Sahara and into the chaos of Libya are only getting worse.
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She lived with my mother, my eldest aunt, their defeated mother, and their despotic father in a massive, decaying house that was once the pride of the town.
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The search engineers created a new ranking algorithm, designed to ensure that negative articles about the despotic government would appear in the topmost position of Pyrrhia's search results.
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We face crises over immigration from the failed states in the west of Central America, a despotic authoritarian regime in Venezuela, and hostile governments in Cuba and Bolivia.
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In fact, the "fire and fury" phrase in the title of Wolff's book comes from a threat Trump made to Kim Jong Un, North Korea's despotic young ruler.
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Mr. Mugabe's refusal to go gently into the night after 37 years of despotic rule was bound to be a major immediate disappointment to many of his countrymen.
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It is difficult to know if President Trump is aware of the historic resonance of the term, a label generally associated with despotic communist governments rather than democracies.
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" Even the Constitution, he cautioned, would "end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government.
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But the constant is that the problems created by despotic leaders in the Middle East -- and US responses to them -- carry on from President to President to President.
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This was an egregious misuse of O'Brien's time and of taxpayer dollars: A$AP Rocky wasn't kidnapped by a terrorist group or held by a despotic regime unjustly.
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" He then compared the "despotic regime" in Saudi Arabia with the leadership in Venezuela and said the US should do all it could to foster a "democratic climate.
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Pompeo called Iran a "thuggish police state" and a "despotic theocracy" last Fall and has argued that the United States is less safe because of the nuclear agreement.
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And it's not just about winning the Nobel Prize that the President believes he deserves for forging an opening with one of the most despotic regimes in modern history.
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When drafting our Declaration of Independence , Thomas Jefferson could have written solely about the need to replace a despotic king with a just one – the issue of his day.
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One imagines that the upcoming live action remake of "The Beauty and The Beast", starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, may give the despotic Gaston a similar Freudian makeover.
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"This is an absolute despotic move, which says much about the Yameen regime and its political posturing and disregard for international or public opinion," it said in a statement.
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When he says that "he alone will save the nation" , that "he" will make America great again, the stench of a strong man, despotic cult rises from his rhetoric.
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Former CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash said on MSNBC on Monday that it was disgusting to see the U.S. flag alongside that from the "despotic regime" of Pyongyang.
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At more than nine hundred pages, it's a thudding, shapeless text, despotic in its pedantry and exhausting in its zeal, marked by excruciating attention to the most minuscule irrelevances.
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Accepting gifts — especially naming gifts — from people with dubious sources of funds or close ties to despotic regimes encourages the view that dirty money can be cleansed by charity.
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While some Peruvians had celebrated Mr. Vizcarra's decision as a much overdue purge of the corrupt elites, others saw in the drastic move a reminder of Peru's despotic past.
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At least America had come to its senses in time to be in the vanguard of what the author called "the global digital despotic order of the 21st century."
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Despotic regimes exploit this American fear of Islamist militancy and get away with brutal violence against dissenting populations of varying political and religious persuasions by projecting them as jihadists.
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Thousands turned out for the service and stood in silent protest in a rare display of defiance against the despotic military leaders who would run Brazil for another decade.
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If Mr. Trump actually planned this scenario, he deserves kudos for devising powerful levers against two despotic leaders wielding daunting weapons, economic in China and nuclear in North Korea.
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How a leader with despotic tendencies who feared being overthrown, rebel infighting, the rise of a new global terror threat, and ruthless proxy wars literally tore a country apart.
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In a public letter to Rouhani in 2016, he asked "the despotic regime" to grant him a public trial so he can hear the indictment against him and defend himself.
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When the Republican Senate summarily dismisses the charges against Trump, they won't just be exonerating the president, they will be signing their names to these deeply unpatriotic and despotic arguments.
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Thousands protested in Sudan over rising food prices and the despotic rule of Omar al-Bashir, who has run the country since taking power in a military coup in 22.5.
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In a public letter to Rouhani in 2016, he asked "the despotic regime" to grant him a public trial so he could hear the indictment against him and defend himself.
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These enemies are likely to capitalize on the perception of a dysfunctional, despotic and dangerous American leader, while our intelligence partners grow increasingly wary of working with the United States.
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Every Republican who has lectured others on their insufficient respect for the Constitution now has the chance to defend the constitutional order from the despotic populism the founders most feared.
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The aim generally would be to reimpose limits on travel and commerce, supposedly to punish Cuba's despotic government, now led by Raúl Castro, brother of the revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
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They knew this because they had escaped from despotic regimes in Europe, where corrupt kings and monarchs issued edicts that specifically prohibited citizens from bearing arms and challenging their tyranny.
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While he is respected by many in southern Africa, the president has also come under fire for what critics have described as his despotic rule and severe human rights abuses.
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Rodrigo Duterte won the job in 2016 as the candidate of PDP-Laban, which was founded by democrats campaigning against the despotic rule of Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s.
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As Robert Mugabe's rule became more despotic, Christian churches emerged as one of the few independent forces that retained the ability to challenge him, in part because of their international connections.
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"The bottom line is the United States should not be supporting a catastrophic war led by a despotic regime with a dangerous and irresponsible military policy," Sanders said in a statement.
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It doesn't take much to realize that the Azeri government, under the despotic reign of Ilham Aliyev, has carried its Soviet legacy firmly forward, nearly three decades after the USSR's collapse.
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Blustering, despotic, and fueling racial and ethnic tensions to thrill his followers and intimidate his opponents while empowering himself, Trump's disdain for America's character … plays out every day in his attacks.
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Around that time, Jaish al-Islam, a Salafi militant group, came to dominate Douma and established a despotic system, arresting, kidnapping and assassinating people who did not comply with its dictates.
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We don't know how this shelter gets food, or if anyone will ever read again, or if Rick has a despotic streak, as all leaders of safe havens do in teen dystopias.
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Tracking the movements of every person at all times in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would have required feats of manpower and bureaucracy beyond all but the most despotic regimes' dreams.
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He essentially proclaimed that when there was flagrant or chaotic or despotic leadership of a Latin American country, the United States could intervene to re-establish the rule of law and democracy.
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On Friday, with the zeal of its despotic leader, his government seized my paper, Today's Zaman, and its parent, the Turkish-language Zaman, which is the highest-circulating daily in the country.
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Of course, there is also a bit of amnesia about the shah's despotic tendencies, and the abuses by his secret police, the Savak, which fueled the uprising that overthrew him in 323.
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Take, for instance, a sentence in the guide for Declarations and Dreams that mentions "popular revolts" against "authoritarian rule" (between 1950 to 1970), remaining unclear on which despotic regimes, were being challenged.
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And after playing Lorca for 11 episodes, Jason Isaacs had just shot his (seemingly) final scene on the show, in which his soldiers attempted a coup against the despotic Emperor Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh).
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Then he reveals that Circlers have placed the cameras all over the world already, which, he tells the assembled Circlers, will help to eradicate bad behavior from lawless citizens and despotic regimes alike.
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" He has not moderated his messaging at the C.I.A. Five months ago, he called Iran a "despotic theocracy" and "a pernicious empire that is expanding its power and influence across the Middle East.
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As it unfolded, we saw him realize just how despotic Cersei had become, and how willing she was to betray or throw over anyone and everyone who might challenge her quest for power.
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A cornered animal is dangerous, a cornered political animal is even more dangerous because the scorched political landscape hurts many, sometimes most and in the case of despotic rule in any form all.
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No worthy Palestinian government can emerge if the international community continues to indulge the corrupt, anti-Semitic autocrats of the Palestinian Authority or fails to condemn and sanction the despotic killers of Hamas.
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RFID chips in cars aren't particularly new, nor do they have to be despotic; they are commonly used in fleet commercial vehicles and for automated payment at toll roads in the US and elsewhere.
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The U.S. missile attack on the Syrian government airbase is unlikely to deter North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's missile and nuclear-weapons development and could embolden the despotic regime in Pyongyang, experts say.
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If this regime, or its despotic neighbor Iraq, were to acquire nuclear weapons, this could presage catastrophic consequences, not only for my country, and not only for the Middle East, but for all mankind.
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"The more they can prove that this is not just a despotic but also an erratic regime, the easier it will be for them to justify that diplomatic options have been exhausted," he said.
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Adding to the economic woes, the country's despotic leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has been conspicuously absent since mid-July, appearing just three times on state media, which once reported almost daily on the President's activities.
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He opened his rucksack and revealed plunder hidden for 21550 years: the bronze right foot, including spur and stirrup, severed from a statue of Don Juan de Oñate, the despotic conquistador of New Mexico.
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Tragically, however, we are witnessing an erosion of democracy in parts of the Western hemisphere, along with attempts by despotic foreign powers like Russia and China, among others, to undermine the sanctity of elections.
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He had known plenty of people who had grown up wealthy and whose families were powerful, Trump told Kim Jong Un, the despotic North Korean dictator whose father and grandfather held the same role.
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Not only has the past year seen an American president borrow despotic language to refer to the free press, but it seems he has in turn inspired dictators and authoritarians with his own language.
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In 2006 the council replaced the UN Commission on Human Rights, which had been irredeemably discredited, not least by being chaired just a few years earlier by Libya, then ruled by the despotic Muammar Qaddafi.
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He tweeted from somewhere over the Atlantic, en route to his "mission of peace" in Singapore with Kim Jong Un, North Korea's despotic ruler, that he had instructed his officials not to endorse the communiqué.
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All of the democratic countries which originally bid to host the Winter Games in 2022 have removed their names from consideration, leaving the IOC with a choice between China and Kazakhstan, two incredibly despotic regimes.
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North Korea's new digital currency will be "more like bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies," said Alejandro Cao de Benos, who is both a North Korean official and a Spanish national long fond of the despotic regime.
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Mr. Kalakani, known as the Bandit King, was deposed after nine months and killed by a firing squad, and some say he was treated unfairly by a despotic dynasty of ethnic Pashtuns who retained power.
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Avoiding a confrontation between the Venezuelan government and those seeking to oust Mr. Maduro, which could well turn violent, will require international backing for the ordinary citizens who are fighting to oust a despotic leader.
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Not only has the past year seen an American president borrow despotic language to refer to the free press, but it seems he has now, in turns, inspired dictators and authoritarians with his own language.
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Yet our critics in the General Assembly single out my country for unwarranted and excessive attention, while giving a pass to some of the world's most brutal and despotic regimes like Syria and North Korea.
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Hanoi (CNN)President Donald Trump, with peace on the mind and "great chemistry" as his ace in the hole, travels to Vietnam on Monday to continue courting North Korea's despotic leader into a nuclear deal.
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Among his supporters is a new far-right party, Cabildo Abierto, led by a former military leader, a jarring development for Uruguayans who have bleak memories of despotic military rule in the 1970s and 1980s.
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When she was a girl, the despotic King Saran wiped out magic from the land by killing all the people who possessed magic, known as majis, who had come of age and awakened to their abilities.
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It has cowed the House of Commons, the "despotic and final" authority of the British system, in the words of Walter Bagehot, the Victorian constitutionalist and former editor of The Economist whose name dignifies this column.
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Only a generation ago Myanmar was cut off from the world by despotic generals; Cambodia's 25-year-old civil war was still sputtering; and Vietnam was only just beginning to experiment with some timid market reforms.
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If this is not heeded, then most certainly this should be the last time Erdoğan receives a warm embrace and, instead, President Trump should back Congress in its attempts to rein in the despotic Mediterranean leader.
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"I will keep protesting until the removal of the compulsory hijab law, and until there's freedom for Iranian people from this despotic religious regime," says the protester, who declined to disclose his name for security reasons.
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The probe is led by the country's new Attorney General and Maduro ally, Tarek William Saab, the same senior official whom U.S. policy makers sanctioned last year on corruption grounds, alongside others in Maduro's despotic regime.
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By facing the law, Mr. al-Bashir joins a list of reputedly despotic leaders who have been removed from office through popular protests and who have been put on trial over their actions while in power.
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How did we end up in a situation in which the president of the United States is meeting as equals with the despotic leader of a tiny, desperately poor country on the other side of the world?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Jeff Flake castigated President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his attacks on the media, saying Trump had embraced the despotic language of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and inspired modern-day authoritarians.
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China has backed Mugabe even as he was slammed in the West for despotic rule — in 2008, Beijing vetoed a United Nations resolution that would have imposed an arms embargo and financial restrictions on the African leader.
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Marsai Martin, who first starred in "Black-ish" when she was just 10 years old, has a new movie in theaters: "Little," in which a despotic boss is transformed into a 13-year-old version of herself.
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These details came up here and there on Tuesday, though the protesters mainly stuck to the big arguments: whether the removal was a sign of a despotic government or whether it was a welcome sign of progress.
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Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog organization at the University of Toronto, has published hard-hitting research on powerful targets in recent years: Chinese government censorship, Silicon Valley's invasion of customers' privacy, despotic regimes' electronic surveillance of dissidents.
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Still, in historical chapters that a college might call Fascism 101, she has professorial fun describing despotic tactics with modern-day echoes, noting for instance that Benito Mussolini promised to "drain the swamp" by sacking Italian civil servants.
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Mr. Abdo Benítez's presidential bid evoked memories of Paraguay's dictatorship from 1954 to 1989 because his father was the personal secretary of Alfredo Stroessner, the despotic military leader who ruled the small South American nation during those years.
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The vastly wealthy sultan, who once piloted his own 747 airliner to meet former U.S. president Barack Obama, often faces criticism from activists who view his absolute monarchy as despotic, but it is unusual for him to respond.
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The despotic statement was made in response the to a student who asked him what he thought of the controversial combination during a high school visit in Northern Iceland, triggering Iceland's own (decidedly less creepy) version of Pizzagate.
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"The president is embracing the most reckless and despotic ruler in Saudi history," said Bruce Riedel, a former C.I.A. official now at the Brookings Institution and author of "Kings and Presidents," about ties between Saudi and American leaders.
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North Korea is one of the most despotic regimes on the planet, with a ruler who hired assassins to kill his own half brother with nerve agents, uses torture and holds purges of any threats to his rule.
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For political reasons, the African Union-- an organization with history supporting Africa's despotic regimes - and supported blindly by the Obama administration are saying that Somaliland independence infringes the sanctity of the territorial integrity of the inherently unstable Somalia.
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He is someone who hides in a forest with a band of outlaws, someone who inspires the downtrodden commoners to revolt against the despotic king and his sadistic lieutenant, and someone who uses expert archery against the king's soldiers.
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That might sound like the whim of a greedy, despotic leader, but it's actually common practice in Hong Kong supermarkets, where an individually wrapped "Fresh by Air From Japan" strawberry will run you HK$168—a whopping US$833.
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She and Beyoncé costarred (with Pink) in a classic Pepsi Super Bowl ad in 2004, an early girl-power-themed spot that saw them banding together to overturn the despotic rule of Enrique Iglesias in a gladiator-like setup.
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Brash American UN worker Terry White, largehearted judge Johel Célestin, and their beautiful, disillusioned wives campaign against a despotic poet-senator to build a road that may bring prosperity—or at least carrots—to the impoverished town of Jérémie.
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But when an outbreak of despotic venality threatens the long-run integrity of the institutions our lives depend upon, some public servants may find themselves forced to make critical, risky, personal judgments about the legitimacy of the president's authority.
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From the development initiatives of Jeffrey Sachs and Bill Gates, to Tony Blair's despotic partnerships or Tom Friedman championing Chinese autocracy in The New York Times, the last two decades have seen political concerns repeatedly sidelined by development statistics.
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"Not only has the past year seen an American president borrow despotic language to refer to the free press, but it seems he has in turn inspired dictators and authoritarians ... This is reprehensible," Flake said on the Senate floor.
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Her story was always supposed to end this way, but it's hard to capture a book character's nuances — and, you know, her budding despotic tendencies — on a show that also has to give screentime to dozens of other characters.
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Here's this week's briefing: While his time is increasingly allotted to addressing legal imbroglios and dealing with staffing changes, there's a growing perception that the President's foreign policy is defined by a set of double standards towards despotic rulers.
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The president boasted that he has a "much bigger" nuclear button than North Korea's despotic ruler, Kim Jong Un; announced a mysterious "MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS" event and called, on a whim, for a political rival to be jailed.
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"A regime who murders someone in a public airport using nerve agents and a despotic leader who murders his brother in that matter, that's clearly an act of terrorism that fits in with the range of other actions," he said.
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Salvadoran institutions are slightly less rickety than those in Guatemala, where the president is attempting to destroy a UN-backed anti-corruption body, or in Nicaragua, where thugs have killed hundreds of people protesting against Daniel Ortega, its despotic president.
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Trump's relentless attacks on Clinton's previous support of the Trans Pacific Partnership, the Clinton Foundation's dealings with despotic regimes like Saudi Arabia, and the email scandal are designed to deflate Bernie Sanders supporters who are still wary of the Democratic nominee.
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He arrives after making a striking transformation from what many saw as a despotic, impulsive young leader with a nuclear arsenal to a skilled diplomat who lured South Korea and the United States into negotiations by dangling the possibility of denuclearization.
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The blinkered approach was not limited to Saudi Arabia — the West dealt with the Soviet Union and scores of other despotic regimes to prevent war, ensure supplies of oil and other raw materials and, in recent decades, to combat terrorism.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets, knowing they face armed repression, because they have realized that the institutions that make democracy work are in grave danger and that they must defend themselves against a despotic government.
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"At the center of 'The Book of Dust' is the struggle between a despotic and totalitarian organization, which wants to stifle speculation and inquiry, and those who believe thought and speech should be free," Mr. Pullman said in an earlier statement.
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Serbia has not yet recognized the independence that Kosovo won a decade ago as a result of a liberation war, backed by NATO in 1999, to avert a genocidal catastrophe supported by Serbia's despotic leader at the time, Slobodan Milosevic.
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Instead, the Chechen war dragged on for nearly two years and achieved none of Russia's principal aims other than the death of the region's despotic leader, Dzokhar Dudayev, who was killed in April 1996 by a laser-guided Russian missile.
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In the wake of the tighter raps, length, and sequencing of 2013's Nothing Was the Same and the restless exploration and despotic solitude of last winter's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, VIEWS's lack of focus feels loose and light-headed.
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There are many reasons to celebrate the date, many of them lofty: a renaissance for Jewish civilization; the creation of a feisty liberal democracy in a despotic neighborhood; the ecological rescue of a once-barren land; the end of 1,878 years of exile.
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The epaulets, dropped-crotch jacquard biker pants, quilted cummerbunds, storm trooper boots, mink greatcoats, hauberks and assorted braid and regalia summoned up images of Scott Thorson, Liberace's tragic companion, or else a praetorian guard for Ming the Merciless, the despotic Flash Gordon villain.
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"A regime who murders someone in a public airport using nerve agent, and a despotic leader who murders his brother in that manner, I mean, that&aposs clearly an act of terrorism that fits in with a range of other actions," McMaster said.
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For a President who seeks extensive counsel from outside the White House -- in calls to old friends, business executives, and even despotic foreign leaders -- Trump has largely forgone advice or guidance from any of the men who have held his job previously.
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To hear a guard casually joke as innocent children weep inconsolably, warehoused in detention centers, not even allowed — by government policy — to be hugged or comforted seems a story from a despotic regime, not from the world's shining beacon of freedom and opportunity.
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Third - Trump's Predisposition to Despotic Power: On July 26, Donald Trump strongly implied on NBC's "Meet The Press" that the nation should not commit "suicide" by adhering to the Constitutional protection of freedom of religion in the face of radical Islamist extremism.
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Indeed, their authority would be called an "Houthiocracy", combining the worst elements of both an autocratic and theocratic regime as evident and inspired by their Iranian patrons, and where a minority group with despotic tendencies are oppressing the general population under its control.
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"In Venezuela, the regime of Nicolas Maduro has turned a free and prosperous nation into one of the poorest and most despotic in the Hemisphere – and the once-great Venezuela is now a failed state," Pence was to say, according to the excerpts.
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In a surprise happy ending, the hungry citizens of Mortville rise up and overthrow their despotic queen, and the film ends on a Breughel-like scene of them dancing around Carlotta, cooked and trussed upon a platter, an apple stuffed in her mouth.
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"I hope you will agree that one of the fundamental rights that distinguish our country from dictatorships and despotic regimes in the world is that we believe in fundamental fairness and due process — a key aspect of which permitting legal representation," she wrote.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's stunning decision to meet with North Korea's despotic leader, Kim Jong Un, might have originated in his administration's campaign to squeeze the country economically and diplomatically, but it was triggered by some deft diplomatic maneuvering by South Korea.
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His regime, which imposed an "iron curtain" across Europe to prevent millions of conquered peoples from escaping his despotic rule, was marked by ethnic cleansing, total press censorship, widespread religious persecution, and the jailing of political dissidents in the harsh Soviet Gulag.
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The charges of conspiring to murder van Hout and others were being heard in court when I was in Amsterdam, and his sister, who has written a tell-all about their childhood and Holleeder's despotic behavior and misdeeds, was to testify against her brother.
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North Korea has relied for decades on the assistance of China, particularly on an economic level, to prop up its failing and utterly despotic regime while counting as well on the neutrality of Russia, with which it shares a sliver of its northern frontier.
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But tech workers can perhaps be forgiven for not entrusting their industry to a U.S. administration in which immigration officials conduct "digital strip searches" of border-crossers, and the president's unelected son-in-law does state business with Saudi Arabia's despotic crown prince on WhatsApp.
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Closed door dealings in corporate boardrooms, largely invisible societal structures, and top-level meetings between despotic government officials rule more of our life than we'd like to admit; the illusion of free will or whatever is irrevocably intertwined with whatever remains of The American Dream.
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The United States has no obligation to rebuild Syria, but it can aid recovery in areas liberated from Islamic State fighters, while working with Russia to obtain reconstruction financing from the Gulf States and to prod Mr. Assad into a less despotic political model.
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In my view, what we should be doing is telling Saudi Arabia — which is a despotic, murderous regime — that they have got to start sitting down and negotiating with Iran to create peace in the region, not to make even worse a very volatile situation.
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With Christ the Redeemer looking down like some kind of despotic overlord—which, in many way, he is—Meirelles somehow managed, through science, to engineer a genuine party atmosphere—no easy feat for a televised broadcast with Brits on Twitter primed to make digs at.
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In his closing speech, the vice president denounced the Cuban government as a "despotic regime" that had impoverished its people and abused human rights, prompting the country's foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who sat listening several chairs away, to demand the chance for a rebuttal.
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And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
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They add that the passion for Shariah should be translated into a doctrine of the inalienable rights of all people — a vision that is desperately lacking in today's Middle East, where the alternative to archaic literalist Shariah is often only secular but despotic rule.
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Twenty other GMA filings have been made by NGOs-of-conscience, naming officials from the dregs of worldwide autocracy as culprits in everything from killing their own people to fleecing their own citizens to propping up their despotic regimes — and paying off allied oligarchs.
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The notion of royalty as an elevated and protected demarcation of social rank feels like precisely what we should be not be affirming or aspiring to, especially now, when in the United States the current administration's agents regularly invoke their socio-economic status to justify despotic policies.
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We are in a vision of the future, a postracial, post-postcolonial world where Westerners like Ross and Jeff are but one contingent of a technocratic cult with a single aim: to rid the world of that absolute, all-defining force, that ultimate despotic colonizer, death.
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Sinosphere ANREN, China — To many Chinese, Liu Wencai is the archetype of the despotic landlord from pre-Communist days, one who exploited his tenants, tortured those who fell behind on rent in a "water dungeon" and forced new mothers to breast-feed him as a longevity therapy.
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But, in due course, the South Korean people, if they feel a sense of urgency to exist as a liberal democracy, will ensure that their government must shed Korean tribalism and be high-handed, rather than servile toward their real enemy, the despotic regime of North Korea.
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Just why the "Despotic" People's Republic of Korea — which has violated both letter and spirit of every international agreement it has signed — since the 1970s has sought a peace deal that, in the end, is just another paper agreement, is a question for philosophers to ponder.
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"It seems as if the U.S. takes it for granted that it has the absolute say over everything in its dealings with the rest of the world, which has to take whatever the U.S. dishes out no matter how arbitrary and despotic that is," China Daily said.
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Many are the children of the immigrants who came by the boatload in the late 1970s and 1980s, escaping economic devastation and repression under Jean-Claude Duvalier, the despotic Haitian ruler aided by the United States when it was buttressing anti-Communist governments in the Caribbean.
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"The vote in the Senate and in the House makes it clear that the United States will not continue to follow the despotic, anti-democratic leadership coming out of Saudi Arabia," said Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont and one of the lead sponsors of the resolution.
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Mohammad al-Alloush of the Army of Islam, in his opening statement, labeled the government "a bloody despotic regime" backed by "vengeful sectarian militias," and called for it to release what he said were 13,000 women being held as political prisoners and to end starvation sieges.
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Following authoritarian ruling parties in Hungary and Poland, and a brazenly despotic one in Turkey, India's Hindu nationalists, a fringe outfit for much of the country's existence, have swiftly occupied the state, staffing chief institutions with loyalists while intimidating nonstate actors like NGOs, journalists, writers and artists.
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While such threats are common in some of the world's more authoritarian states and have been heard from despotic strongmen in places such as Turkey and Russia, they are unprecedented in the former British colony -- which, until recently, considered its free press a key part of its democracy.
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" Franklin was blunter in forecasting the moment we are now in: He believed that the American experiment in self-government "can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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The first formal impeachment effort against a president came in 1843 when a House member introduced a resolution calling for an inquiry against President John Tyler for "arbitrary, despotic and corrupt abuse of the veto power" after he rejected two tariff bills favored by his own Whig Party.
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As a stream of isolated, confused or despotic presences mill about the stage — introduced by a character called the Spectator — Mr. Glass reaches for nervy effects, as when a pair of winds join drums and electric bass during the climax of a mad dance that takes place near an eyeless Oedipal character.
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The fact that so many Americans enjoy the sport awakened many to the cause of the Hong Kong protests, to the despotic control the People's Republic of China (PRC) seeks to impose on Americans, and to how spineless — at least, in their initial, instinctive reaction — businesses often are in the face of Chinese pressure.
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Ms. Nyanzi's case has produced widespread anger in the country, which prides itself on its vibrant civil society but is increasingly frustrated with Mr. Museveni's despotic tendencies — an about-face from his earlier years when he restored political stability after the horrors of Idi Amin and promised not to overstay his time in power.
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"If the real world today is governed as an insanely dysfunctional republic, and the Internet today is governed as a cluster of insanely despotic corporate monarchies, it doesn't strike me as at all inconsistent with historical thought to treat the former case of misgovernment with efficient monarchism, and the latter case with liberating republicanism," he wrote.
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Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Pool (Getty Images)Donald Trump's administration rushed to reach a deal to provide Saudi Arabia and its despotic government with protected U.S. nuclear technology, despite numerous legal and ethical warnings that such a deal was ill-advised and possibly in violation of the law, Democrats in the House of Representatives alleged in a report on Tuesday.
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Even if you set aside its history of murdering Americans and supporting despotic regimes, it is unlikely that the group will ever become a credible political partner of the US.That's because in Iran, MEK is regarded as a bunch of traitors who fought alongside Saddam Hussein and have a history of murdering Iranian civilians in terror attacks.
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It is better for Zimbabwe, which has known only one leader since the end of white-minority rule, and for Africa, where many countries are under despotic "big man" rule, that the expulsion of Mr. Mugabe follow constitutional and democratic norms, even if the military has run roughshod over those norms for years, and may do so yet again.
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Authoritarianism in America" (March 18), Andrew Sullivan concludes with this thought: "Franklin was blunter in forecasting the moment we are now in: He believed that the American experiment in self-government 'can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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The moral justification for America's involvement in what was supposed to be a war to protect ourselves and the Middle East against a rising terror threat became tarnished, and support for America's presence in Iraq plummeted among the Iraqi population — who initially welcomed the American military as a savior from Saddam's clearly despotic and psychotic regime.
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Consider what it means for that child to be told with a straight face that there is such a thing as an American dream even as their daily lives open up more opportunity for the kind of macabre nightmares the most comfortable of us tend to think are reserved for despotic so-called Third World nations.
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It has condemned Israel with greater frequency than Syria (which frequently uses chemical weapons against children), North Korea (which employs prison camps against and ignores the starvation of its own population), Iran (which expansively uses the death penalty against its own people, including minors, and routinely persecutes religious and ethnic minorities), and many other despotic countries.
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"What I would like to see American exceptionalism be about is instead of spending more money on the military than the next 12 nations combined, instead of supplying Saudi Arabia — a despotic monarchy with over $100 billion of very sophisticated weaponry — I would like to see American exceptionalism mean leading the world in addressing problems," he said.
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Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, a Trump move to acknowledge and act on this would also allow him to counteract the most persuasive criticism of his foreign policy, namely that he is alienating allies without yet showing wins on four significant fronts regarding rivals: China and its unfair trade, Iran and its malign behavior, North Korea's nuclear proliferation and Venezuela's despotic dictatorship.
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At the same time, Princess Ashraf gained a reputation as a steely political operator, an unashamed apologist for the despotic regime of her brother, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and a mink-draped sybarite, well known at the casinos of the French Riviera, who amassed a considerable fortune during her brother's years in power and lived in luxurious exile after he was overthrown in 1979.
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Kim is the third generation of the Kim dynasty, which has ruled North Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953, following on from his equally despotic grandfather Kim Il Sung and father Kim Jong Il. The dictator has sought to cement his position since taking power in 2011, quickly removing his father's chief of staff Ri Yong Ho and defense minister Kim Yong Chun.
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A CDC spokesperson told STAT News that the event, slated for January 16 in Atlanta, has been in the works for months—meaning that it's not actually a reaction to Donald Trump's latest aggressive tweet, a gasoline-on-the-fire message, which had the nominal leader of the free world comparing the size of his "nuclear button" to that of the despotic North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.
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The photo, however, remains as a constant mood-booster for people who visit these African countries like Uganda—a reminder of when they irrevocably changed the lives of impoverished Africans, despite the fact that they remain in an exploitative system largely separated from their families and under the power of a despotic, bigoted, and under-resourced government led by Museveni (who West broke bread with on Monday, to the disapproval of opposition leader Bobi Wine).
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Against the grain of past documentaries, in which Moses is framed as a hard-charging champion of the new middle-class for whom he constructed parks, beaches, bridges, and tunnels, Citizen Jane spotlights the despotic, late-period Moses in his capacity as New York State Parks Commissioner and as New York City's Construction Coordinator, bankrolled by an endless stream of federal and state money, much of it serving the needs of the booming automobile industry.
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Former CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash slammed the summit between President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday, saying it was disgusting to see the U.S. flag alongside that from the "despotic regime" of Pyongyang.
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We see her conflicted relationship to her own increasing fame, her despotic presence on the New York literary scene—one of the best anecdotes in the book is from a Manhattan psychiatrist who recalls the tremendous number of people who lay on his couch describing the ways they'd been hurt by her—and her eventual turn toward political engagement: her visits to Hanoi during the Vietnam War, and her sustained time in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, including her staging of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in a besieged Sarajevo beset by sniper fire.
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"When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper … despotic in his ordinary demeanor, known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity, to join in the cry of danger to liberty, to take every opportunity of embarrassing the general government and bringing it under suspicion to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day — it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ride the storm and direct the whirlwind," Schiff said.
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