Africa s Dictator Diplomat

Egypt s Democratic Dictator?

I'm not a dictator.

A dictator cannot live without the force.

He was a soft dictator of Kenya.

You are not a dictator over them.

You are not a dictator over them.

The poor people were at the mercy of the cruel dictator.

Because it's not enough to remove a leader or ruler or dictator.

Think of the collective anger in Tahrir Square, which brought down a dictator.

Well, I don't like the term benevolent dictator, and I don't think that it's my job or my role in the world of ideas to be the dictator of the future of all human knowledge compiled by the world.

In front of him (every obstinate, arrogant dictator) is Hell, and he will be made to drink boiling, festering water.

In front of him (every obstinate, arrogant dictator) is Hell, and he will be made to drink boiling, festering water.

We are fully aware of what they say, and you are not a dictator over them. So remind by the Quran whoever fears My warning.

We are fully aware of what they say, and you are not a dictator over them. So remind by the Quran whoever fears My warning.

So if you look at most of the major free software projects, they have one single person in charge who everyone agrees is the benevolent dictator.

But, more importantly, no military dictator can succeed where Musharraf has so clearly failed. Winston Churchill once said, War is too serious a business for generals.

A dictator who wants to control every aspect of people s lives will seek to ignore the preferences of everyone else. But that level of power is hard to achieve.

And that's not exactly what I said , but the point is my role in the community within the free software world there's been a longstanding tradition of the benevolent dictator model.

But they (the Messengers) sought victory and help from their Lord (Allah) , and every obstinate, arrogant dictator (who refuses to believe in the Oneness of Allah) was brought to a complete loss and destruction.

But they (the Messengers) sought victory and help from their Lord (Allah) , and every obstinate, arrogant dictator (who refuses to believe in the Oneness of Allah) was brought to a complete loss and destruction.

And Hosni Mubarak thought he was going to be the dictator of Egypt for the rest of his life, until he got too old or too sick and could pass the reigns of power onto his son.

Augusto Pinochet, Chile s former dictator, ruled for 16 years in the name of authoritarian democracy, and then attempted to leave behind what he called a protected democracy. Today s would be strongmen speak of popular or Bolivarian democracy.

At best, the overthrow of Saddam removed a threatening dictator, and substituted a tyranny of the majority for the tyranny of a minority. But the price has been high in terms of Iraqi lives lost in sectarian fighting.

The ayatollah dictator and the Revolutionary Guards have tried their best to discredit their opponents by concocting, through forced confessions at show trials, a conspiracy of regime change based on a velvet revolution produced by Western social sciences.

They believe that boosting allied forces will only increase the sense of occupation and give the Taliban more targets. The emergence of a realistic dictator might allow NATO to withdraw most of its troops within a few years.

That did end up with vulnerable people in Afghanistan being exposed. It also meant that the Belarussian dictator was given a handy list of all the pro democracy campaigners in that country who had spoken to the U.S. government.

He may lower oil prices for someone close to him, like Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko, and insist on a market price for someone else, but that s basically all he can do. I don't envision any serious conflict beyond that.

Many in Musharraf s own army despise him for the same reason. For Pakistan s small and embattled liberal and left wing forces, he is yet another military dictator who seized and holds power by force, undermining the development of democracy.

The obvious lesson to be drawn from 1979 is that America unwisely rested its entire strategic relationship with Iran on the shoulders of an unpopular dictator. When his regime crumbled, so did America s ability to realize its interests there.

On the other hand, I don t want to demonize Putin. He may lower oil prices for someone close to him, like Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko, and insist on a market price for someone else, but that s basically all he can do.

Last year, its adherents did play an important role in the removal of Libya s brutal dictator, Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi. Many subsequently matured politically, revised their worldview, and shifted from armed to unarmed activism, forming political parties and contesting elections.

Three years ago, during the Tsarist capital s 300th anniversary, Putin hosted some 40 heads of state, ranging from George W. Bush and Gerhard Schroeder to Belarusian dictator Alexandar Lukashenka and Turkmenistan s Saparmyrat Nyazov, who styles himself Turkmenbashi, the father of Turkmen.

Above all, it was the Cuban Revolution of 1959 in which armed revolutionaries successfully overthrew the military dictator Fulgencio Batista that inspired this movement. Indeed, Che Guevara, an icon of the revolution, died in Bolivia while attempting to export the guerrilla project.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has also taken a strong stand against the Belarusian dictator. As the Final Report of its 2004 mission to observe the Belarusian parliamentary elections clearly stated, the vote fell significantly short of OSCE commitments.

FLORENCE In 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin returned his country to dictatorship. From the Kremlin to Crimea, Russian citizens must now deal with the greed, fear, and mendacity of a dictator who, in the course of a year, eviscerated any final check on his authority.

Who are you going to believe, Groucho once asked, me, or your own eyes? For hundreds of millions of citizens in Communist run countries in the twentieth century, the me in the question was a dictator or oligarchy ruling with totalitarian or authoritarian powers.

What will deter the next Central American dictator and murderer if the Cubans are given a free pass? Invoking pragmatism to justify continued human rights violations in Cuba merely because economic reforms might dissuade a mass exodus to Mexico and Florida is a bad idea.

The death watch for Fidel Castro is something that only Gabriel Garcia Marquez could get right. His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long term dictator.

Greece has seen the rise of an overtly fascist party, Golden Dawn, which proudly celebrates the legacy of former dictator Ioannis Metaxas. Although Golden Dawn has existed for roughly two decades, only in the last year did it gain enough support to enter parliament.

Nicaragua s dictator, Anastasio Somoza, diverted much of the international assistance meant for the survivors into his own pockets and those of his cronies. In the process, he incited popular support for the left wing Sandinista guerrillas who toppled his government later in the decade.

The NKVD, the precursor to the KGB, orchestrated the assassination on Stalin's order, but the inquiry gave the Soviet dictator a pretext for eliminating other opponents. The search for Kirov's murderers eventually culminated in the Great Terror, a massive purge of Party leaders, military commanders, and intellectuals.

Parliamentarians across Europe and the West must join their voice together in a well defined, united and ringing declaration that forces Western leaders to apply real pressure to Europe s last dictator. Such pressure brought results a year ago, with the success of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.

The Mexican Revolution of 1910 began with a challenge to the dictator Porfirio Díaz that ignited peasant uprisings and worker revolts. The revolution s radical phase seemed to end in 1920 when General Alvaro Obregón seized power he limited land reforms and sought reconciliation with the United States.

Unlike former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori s daughter, who lost her presidential bid in Peru last month, Park is likely to defy her family s tragic history. If she does, she will be Asia s most powerful woman, perhaps the most powerful in the world, at the end of next year.