Sentence examples for benign dictator from inspiring English sources

Thus, the benign dictator.

Jobs could be regarded as a benign dictator.

Like a benign dictator, I corralled my entire family into the day's preparations.

In a subsequent interview with British journalists, he defended Benito Mussolini as a relatively benign dictator.

It's still your film and your decisions, but be a benign dictator.

The prayer for a benign dictator is more lament than actual political wish.

The first was the sense that in normal practice therapists act as "benign dictators".

The first was the sense that in normal practice therapists act as "benign dictators", committed to help their patients, but most comfortable when they, the professional, are in control.

"A benign military dictator is no substitute for a participatory democratic process," he said.

The Rev. Heyward Wiggins of Bible Tabernacle is there, talking about his hopes for his stricken city, now that the state has given up on Camden's local government and is set to begin the first city takeover in the state's history, amounting to the imposition of a benign but absolute dictator.

One American diplomat, using language that makes human rights advocates fume, praised the "mellowing, benign leadership" of the dictator in power for more than 30 years, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, in 2009 cables released by WikiLeaks.