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Historically, the role of external pressure tends to be paramount in isolating the dictators and causing divisions within their regimes.

As so often happens to dictators , however decent they seem to start with, General Musharraf has come to see himself as "indispensable" .

"The nations I would worry about, weird places run by odd dictators, they're just not capable of doing this stuff, " he said.

The thugs have put out by Suzy that the world was no more in need of dictators and that the revolution going on in Libya was a good thing.

By supporting dictators who promise to be the enemy of our enemy, we have become our enemy's best friend.

Not without justification, the organization is often seen as a shambolic club for dictators whom Qaddafi himself has enriched .

Wise to resign now than later otherwise it's just a matter of time that oppositions topple their government and label them as dictators.

All dictators seem to have terrible problems with their out-of-control sons.

The new government is consolidating the control over the country. And one of the world's longest-serving dictators is no more.

In Libya's long history of ruthless, ossified dictators, Qaddafi is in a league of his own.

In the typical fashion of dictators, Libya's leader appears to be confusing his own person with the nation as a whole.

For this he has secured the additional support of Russia and China, as well as that of a bunch of dictators from Belarus to North Korea.

All ruled by dictators trying to hold power with killing their own people.

Dictators are easy to admire, especially at a distance.

Modern dictators are attempting the impossible when they try to produce a political art.

Elections alone do not assure democracy since dictators can use the resources of the state to tamper with the election process.

Little over a decade earlier, our neighbors had been plagued with civil wars, coups, dictators, closed economies, and desperate poverty.

For Spain, Greece and Portugal, it was an escape from militaristic rightwing dictators.

"I brought down dictators, " Bob says to one of his fellow spies. "How tough can three kids be? "

Some are prescriptive, enshrining freedoms, curtailing the powers of the state and generally hampering would-be dictators.

But that, in an imperfect world, may be the price of preventing dictators from controlling the weapons that could kill millions.

This time Mr Obama sought to place America on the side of the reformers, putting democratic values above alliances with dictators.

Excuse me, but as our democracies work on this earth, they are by the rule of the uniformed mobs serving a few dictators.

Crucially, no Mikhail Gorbachev exists among the great powers that support the Arab dictators.

Meanwhile, by his inaction, he sends a signal to these dictators that he will look the other way as they enslave their own people.

However, this peaceful movement lasted fifty days and was then crushed by the dictators . Its end was tragic, bloody and unprecedented.

But the days in which it was clever to cosy up to dictators have passed.

Across the Arab world, dictators battle their own people; at home, attitudes towards Cameron and Clegg alternate between apathy and outrage.

The fall of dictators in the south could be too, though the transition is bound to be more uncertain.

It is paramount to understand that the Arab dictators and tyrants serve the interests of organized capital.

There would be a healthy range of boutiques for dictators' partners and the political chats would be lively and informed.

Dictators cannot steal millions of dollars from the state, nor accept massive bribes, if the money has to be kept under the bed.

But, now that Kim has watched the demise of one of his fellow dictators, we are not likely to.

As with its past inability to shift Arab dictators, the EU will struggle to shape the outcome of the Arab spring.

For the West, whose ties to Arab dictators once gave it great clout in the Middle East, events in the region have spun way out of control.

Technology, in the form of Zyklon B and cheap transport, enabled dictators to dispatch their victims en masse to distant killing fields.

Chinese officials smart at what they perceive to be the hypocrisy of some western critics of its ties with African dictators.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police.

After power returned to civilians, they enacted an amnesty covering the crimes of the dictators and their guerrilla opponents alike.

Such levers do not work as quickly as those that were forged from deals with unpopular and unstable dictators.

If policy were conducted by benevolent and knowledgeable dictators, monetary and fiscal decisions would be run together.

The French secret service was also poised to undertake, if necessary, the liquidation of the dictators' most formidable rivals.

The internet, long seen as a way of dodging dictators, can be dangerous.

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was a 62 year old grandmother who had been thrown in prison by the country's dictators simply for demanding democracy.

In poster versions for the campaign the images of other dictators such as Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein have also been used.

FOR most of the 20th century, the small countries of Central America were a backwater, a tropical playground for dictators and adventurers.

It is unfair because dictators do not work to a diplomatic timetable.

The defining struggle in Muslim-majority countries will not be between U. S. -supported dictators and radical Islamists.

IF FOR nothing else, the dictators of Tunisia and Egypt must be thanked for bowing out rather than steeping themselves in blood.

Plainly, the dictators are nervous. But that does not mean that they are about to fall like dominoes.

Fate knocked at the door last week for Europe's two fascist dictators.

Both were run by quasi-dictators, complete with strict censorship and a pervasive secret police.

In the 20th century, some chose to appease murderous dictators , whose threats were allowed to grow into genocide and global war.

It's not terribly fashionable to feel sympathy for deposed dictators but, you know, it can't be easy for them.

This is not an argument for cynically coddling African dictators, as the United States did during the Cold War.

However, the actual number of liberal democracies that have elected dictators into power is low.

The dictators almost always have superiority in military hardware, ammunition, transportation, and the size of military forces.

Gone are the days of the cold war when West and East propped up their favoured dictators for geostrategic reasons.

It's not us being a bully when we say it's not a good idea to let unstable, begrudged dictators to arm themselves with nuclear weapons.

But many critics argue that the result of long-serving dictators in the Middle East has been stunted growth for their countries' economies.

"Realism" is letting dictators get away with terror and murder--and, in particular, letting them get away with the murder of our friends.

Until the Arab Spring, China could massage the shoulders of dictators everywhere, and take home boat loads of oil, metals and minerals.

But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people.

Dictators know this, so the first thing they wish to shut down are the new communications tools.

Let the American's pay for fighting wars, deposing of dictators and nation building with their tax dollars and soldier citizen's.

Of all the Arab dictators, none has reacted to his people's call for freedom with more unbridled viciousness than Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

Egypt and Tunisia have been rules by dictators who do not care for the people.

William and Kate have to invite half the world's dictators, and an unappetizing variety of celebrities.

Haiti's people lived under sanctions, isolated and oppressed by a succession of generals, dictators and bad rulers.

'Dictators all died. That's the justice of history. That also marks the new beginning of the history, ' Mr. Park said.

Give us too little freedom and we'll stand up to dictators in Cairo and fighter planes in Libya.

Constitutional and legal barriers, judicial decisions, and public opinion are normally ignored by dictators.

Lula had a penchant for embracing dictators, from Cuba's Fidel Castro to Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

he says he doesn't want to be like one of those people who are photographed, beaming, next to mad dictators.

One of the biggest is the potential overthrow of dictators.

Her argument that business spreads democracy and respect for human rights is undermined by cases of companies in cahoots with dictators.

The dream of all dictators is to know as much about you as Google does, says Jacob Mchangama, a Danish human-rights lawyer.

Still, the strong upward trend started long before Arab dictators started to look vulnerable.

When all the peoples of the world remember to laugh, particularly at themselves, there will be more dictators and no more wars.

Arab dictators have proven resilient in the face of similarly daunting challenges.

Dictators respect only force; The committee can make its decision by Friday of next week only if it receives a copy of the latest report.

Dictators came and went. Venezuela, despite its vast fertile lands, became a net food importer.

This, and the oppressive behavior of the region's US-sponsored dictators, could in turn boost anti-American sentiments.

By taking dictators' cash, the banking system is "complicit" in perpetuating misrule and poverty, claim the authors.

That's how we're going to win back control of our own destiny from oil-rich dictators.

kings, dictators, commercial magnates are from our point of view very unsatisfactory.

Such near-unanimity came as a surprise to those who dismiss the assembly as a dictators' club and the rights council as deeply flawed.

He has stared down dictators and spoken out for America's cops and firefighters.

To be sure, the AU is partly composed of brutal, kleptocratic dictators.

The days when Arab dictators could take over the state-run TV and radio and shut off all information to their people are over.

During the first week of "Dictators' School, " they teach you that cash is king, and gold is pretty good too, except gold is heavy.

From Caligula to Nero to Qaddafi, dictators are often not just cruel and evil, but lunatics.

Brother Wild Ghost, of course dictators won't actively back off the stage of history. That's why we must work harder.

Republican leaders complain that Mr Obama glad-hands dictators, kowtows to enemies and betrays loyal friends.

There have been dictators, and there have been benevolent kings.

DICTATORS and authoritarians will disagree, but democracies work better.

Some of the region's dictators might eventually figure that out.

It gave the dictators a free pass and put America on the wrong side of the barricades in Tahrir Square.

The task of proving that the Arab world without its dictators is a better place may yet be a tortuous struggle.

Oil money pays for the bombs going off from Baghdad to Beirut, and the bombast of dictators from Caracas to Tehran.

Granted, it is unlikely to lose access to resources controlled by friendly dictators who have benefited personally from China's arrival.

This year, it seems, readers were more interested in economic collapse than in the fall of dictators.

Today they use the same hardball tactics they honed a-gainst dictators to undermine democratic leaders.

One thing dictators do well -- or they don't remain dictators for long -- is guard against internal threats.

Dictators as good dictators as long as they are OUR dictators. Otherwise, we bomb them into oblivion.

Democracy is the superior virtue we claim as we smugly survey the chaos that military dictators have visited upon Pakistan.

AS MILITARY dictators go, Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf has always seemed rather a decent sort.

And that means that the question now isn't whether social media can start a revolution, but whether dictators believe it can.

There are owners for the various modules, and "benevolent dictators" for each project with veto rights.

Whatever the misdeeds of the Bahraini or Saudi royal families, they are not Gaddafi-style dictators.

Finding the right way to put dictators and war criminals on trial is never easy.

But then, a couple weeks ago we had no idea Goldman was best in class in the losing dictators' money category.

Before the Arab spring, dictators were, in effect, bribed to do this.

Two decades in, the Internet has neither brought down dictators nor eliminated borders.

A 20-something named Austin Heap has found the perfect disguise for dissidents in their cyberwar against the world's dictators.

Only dictators insist they know all the answers in advance of experience.

Actually, in their mind, they already admit that communist is evil. But they want to cooperate with dictators to fool themselves.

THE story of oil has many villains: greedy oil-company executives, rapacious dictators, shady middlemen and the like.

Of the big European countries, Angela Merkel's Germany has been the firmest advocate of ostracising dictators.

Jozef Stalin slaughtered millions, but even murderous totalitarian dictators need to catch a break.

So long as men worship dictators, Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable---Aldous Huxley, English writer.

For decades United Fruit had controlled the country through pliable dictators.

Under Korea's post-war dictators, Mr Kim was a dangerous man.

The military dictators make us disappointed again and again for our peace efforts.

The calamities that accompany monetarychaos have brought dictators to power in other countries.

The thrill of empowerment from the toppling of hated dictators has largely passed.

Dictators are falling. Democracies are failing.

What are dictators, generals, and strategists looking for in the books they keep around them or carry with them?

These new technologies can also be used by dictators to watch, entrap and persecute their opponents.

Can we stop wars and genocides and get rid of evil dictators? Can we then build modern, democratic states that thrive in our wake?

Twitter Will Undermine Dictators.

In the seven years since Sept. 11, President Bush has relied heavily on dictators in Muslim nations to keep a lid on Al Qaeda.

Go back to the era of dictators and world wars and you can find exactly the same addiction to globaloney.

In short, technology has undermined dictators' ability to lie to their people.

We make deals with dictators, and reap the whirlwind of terrorism.

Or say we have two rival dictators in a death grudge.

Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and Syria's President Bashar Assad are both odious dictators.

The dictators in power, men without legitimacy, are now the fearful ones. They will be tossed out.

You are just killing each other because of what military dictators have done to the country.

While dictators can't eliminate the possibility of foreign military intervention, they can certainly minimize its likelihood.

Nor is such blue-penciling a habit of ruthless dictators only.

There are, obviously, more deserving recipients of one's sympathy than the factotums of deranged dictators.

So which dictators should we deal with?

My bet is that these deft, smart and sometimes ruthless Chinese dictators can deliver enough managed choice to endure.

Can we stop wars and genocides and get rid of evil dictators?

One city after another fell under the control of powerful dictators.

But no matter; Africa's new dictators could rest easy.

They understand that a man who doesn't trust is a wannabe dictator. And as with most dictators he's no fun to be around.

China's Struggle with the Dictators.

The problem, he says, is that the economic record of dictators and single-party states is not very good.

Dictators usually black out all criticism of the government.

Let them know you don't need to do business with dictators.

The pope and the chinese are just alike. They both deserve each other. Rotten disgusting dictators in control of stupid people.

Most dictators are economic bunglers.

But Mr Bush wanted no truck with dictators.

Moral intuitions have primacy, Haidt argues, but they are not dictators.

Thein Sein can also look at history and consider the dictators that are remembered, and why.

For instance said that, some dictators are deeply loved by the subordinate the esteem, cares about the folk hardship very much.

How do dictators survive?

China would do well to learn that siding with dictators has practical as well as moral costs.

Mr. Obama was reacting to comments Mr. Bush made in Israel about appeasing dictators.

My father had taught me to be distrustful of dictators.

A tour of dictators' cribs.

Because the dictators are still the ones who controls the agenda.

It is good ground for dictators.

In the end, dictators, however unpopular, despotic and incompetent, rarely fall because they have too many enemies.

When you have crazy dictators, it takes a radical move to remove them.

The picture above shows the two dictators and the mother of revolution.

The reason I don't like dictators is that they are inhuman, and anything which is inhuman is bad.

We can be hands-on, if we're facilitators instead of directors or dictators.

Mr. Wen's conduct is striking because it's what we expect of politicians, not dictators.

Thereason I don't like dictators is that they are inhuman, andanythingwhich inhuman is bad.

Like so many dictators throughout history, Mr. Kim lived in excess and decadence while the people he ruled suffered hardship.

The biggest instability facing the region's dictators is the lack of any mechanism to succeed them

Filmmaker spoke with Gandini about Berlusconismo, the society of spectacle, and why people with no ideology are scarier than dictators.

The dark days of the dictators

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die,

Anthropoeia will be used for social engineering by dictators - or indeed to duplicate themselves;

Dictators clatter down the stairs and batten down the hatches as their regimes implode;

Sex and creativity are often seen By dictators as subversive activities

The Arabs are not tearing down dictators by "poking" them on Facebook or flooding their Twitter feeds with hostile tweets

When all the people of the world remember to laugh, particularly at themselves, there will be no more dictators and no more wars. (Burman)

The fall of the Arab world's worst two dictators would give a terrific boost to the region

The twilight of the dictators A spring of unrest, an autumn of discontent

Forget mad dictators. The price of cabbage is what really worries Koreans

Some dictators may have fallen, but human-rights abuses continue

The dictators of Sudan and Zimbabwe should not have been welcome in Lisbon

From Hitler to Gaddafi: dictators and their bunkers

although there are many warlords, murderers and dictators

coddle the dictators in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan