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It was, as a matter of fact, a paradise for the foreign adventurers and a sanctuary for warlords, bandits, hooligans and local despots.

Here, despots of every stripe continued to hold sway, unaltered by time or circumstance.

IF EVER there was a moment for Europe to come up with new policies for dealing with despots, it is now.

For years China has been chummy with African despots who seem to be reliable partners.

His governmental principles were those of the Han despots - political authority centralized in one man, reinforced by a graded bureaucracy.

Tycoons: self-made adventurers who enliven the business landscape; as opposed to despots who have stolen their fortunes from the poor.

but quite as frequently it awards more than justice when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity.

Waterloo (in Belgium) used to be popular with retired despots and plenty were happy swanning about the French Riveria.

Has the sword of despots proved to be a safer or surer instrument of reform in government than enlightened reason ?

Inspired by protests against other despots, Palestinians in both territories have been crying for "revolution until we end the division" .

ONE sign that change is afoot in countries ruled by despots is the appearance of murals and cartoons ridiculing them.

Perhaps he needs to remember, amid cacophony, that some of the best conductors are despots.

One of the striking things about today's world is that it is full of despots pretending to be democrats.

In practice, self-determination soon became an expedient for newly established despots to strengthen and perpetuate their wrongdoings.

The first time of "overthrow the local despots and distribute land" was about seizing wealth and power in the name of the people.

I admit that Russia has its beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots .

Aren't all despots a threat to freedom loving people all over the world.

Arab despots have destroyed political and institutional life, leaving their opponents little option but the mosque and the madrassa.

Some despots, in Hindustan and Persia, went further, slitting smokers' lips or pouring molten lead down their throats.

At one moment, Mr Zuma is upholding the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference dear to despots around the world.

Colonel Gaddafi built no institutions, whereas benevolent despots do.

Hitler was perhaps one of the most notorious despots in the 20th century.

Yet even their pages have run editorials rejoicing in the disposing of despots and dreams of democracy.

These countries enthralled the world as their populations bravely overthrew despots.

Tyrants and despots rightly fear free speech more than almost anything else.

First elected in 2004, he arrived as a democrat in a region of despots.

This is no airy-fairy liberal who is going to allow himself to be pushed around by Middle Eastern despots.

With western-backed despots being turfed out politics has changed for ever.

Other European countries have also found assets linked to despots.

Harems went out of style centuries ago, and even despots now disavow pillage and oppression as ideals.

Floridians who fled leftist despots tend to vote Republican.

Paris without a king has as result the world without despots.

Across time and space, the answer has almost always been god-kings, priest-kings, military despots and so forth.

All we need to do is to dispose of other despots and terrorists in the Middle East, such as the ones in Libya and Syria.

But then, Switzerland is for yesterday's despots.

Where will crooks, despots and war criminals go now?

The same is true for people who steal or despots who slaughter.

It's a lesson the world's despots take to heart.

China's No. 1 priority is that people can afford food because, like all despots, they are terrified of their own people.

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