Sentence examples for an elected dictator from inspiring English sources

They fear that he wants to rule as an elected dictator.

There has even been discussion of adopting a written constitution, a step that could abruptly curb the powers of government here, because a prime minister with a large parliamentary majority — Mr. Brown, for the past two years — is essentially in the position of an elected dictator, free of many of the constraints that face American presidents.

There is also concern that Mr. Chavez, a former paratrooper who led a failed coup in 1992, is distorting the democratic free-market model advocated in Washington by consolidating institutions under his control and setting himself up as an elected dictator.

Perhaps, though, in today's Russia, an elected dictator is what is needed.

The French system contains enough checks and balances to prevent a bullying president from turning into an elected dictator, especially with the national assembly elections due in June and offering an immediate chance to quell the new president's power.

He was an elected dictator, with popular and legal legitimacy.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld than likened Mr. Chávez to Hitler as a legally elected dictator, and the State Department expelled Jeny Figueredo Frías, who was chief of staff to the Venezuelan ambassador.

Involved with them, and of their time, there was a different set of legends, and these too breathe in Claudius's pages, a nostalgia for the republic that was never to return, not in its disordered latter days but in its prime of discipline and virtue, a remote past exemplified by heroes like Cincinnatus, who in the fifth century BC at a time of grave peril to Rome, was elected dictator.

After Hannibal's victory over the Romans at Lake Trasimene (217), Fabius was elected dictator; he then initiated his strategy of attrition against the invaders.

Sulla was elected dictator and, while Italy and all the provinces except Spain were quickly reduced, began a reign of terror (the "proscriptions"), in which hundreds of his enemies or those of his adherents were killed without trial, while their property went to enrich him and his friends.

He wasn't the only one who thought that industrial society was turning out too many idiots, and he was on the side of the angels, or seemed so, in proclaiming that one of the greatest dangers the idiots posed was that they might elect dictators.