Sentence examples for a benevolent one from inspiring English sources

I am a dictator, but I hope, a benevolent one.

He was essentially a dictator, and not always a benevolent one.

(Yes, it turns out a ghost, albeit a benevolent one, is stalking the garden.) And the characters seem to have been constructed out of various elements from the well-established and easily recognizable idiosyncrasies kit.

If one man dominates the country, that is because since 1970, when he overthrew his father, Qaboos bin Said al-Said has ruled the Gulf state as an absolute monarch, albeit a benevolent one who has both unified and modernised Oman.

A benevolent one, perhaps, but a dictator nonetheless.

She is our ruler, but a benevolent one.

Hopefully it is a more benevolent one [than the mobile carriers].

What's most surprising is how underneath all the fake eyelashes and pasties, the film's ostensibly bitchy and cutthroat world is a largely benevolent one.

Not in a bad way – if Wenger has been the dictator-figure some suggest, he has been a charming, benevolent one, and in any case, for all the tantrums thrown by the pricks over at Arsenal Fan TV, Arsenal is not as important as a country.

During one such talk, as the children were gathered around Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy," which depicts a sleeping woman and a benevolent lion, one youngster suggested that the woman was not afraid because "maybe she's friends with the lion".

This means that, even though international intentions may be benevolent, one set of people - the persecuted and internationally displaced 'refugees' - are given a different set of rights to all other groups of people, though their situations may be extremely similar.