In the parts of Congo he controlled, Kabila ruled as despotically as his predecessor, but less competently.
President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi is behaving ever more despotically, provoking Western donors to suspend aid.
To coin a phrase, when even members of your own party tell you that you are behaving despotically, it is perhaps a sign that you are.Mr Zvobgo, a witty, 67-year-old, Harvard-educated lawyer, was once one of Mr Mugabe's inner circle.
And just as much as aid, mobilising the resources of the Haitian diaspora is vital in fighting poverty.The lasting question raised by the past month's events is how to deal with elected presidents who start to rule despotically.
Previous waves of emigrants fled China because the country was poor, violent and despotically ruled.
When the country's leading liberal, Grigory Yavlinsky, tried to campaign in Bashkortostan (a despotically run republic in mid-Russia), the local authorities allied to one of his rivals, Mr Luzhkov, simply refused to let his aircraft land.But the Kremlinites can afford the dirtiest of the dirty tricks.
To the American colonies, the Quebec Act was menacing it reestablished to the north and west an area despotically ruled, predominantly French and Roman Catholic, with an alien form of land tenure.
But he ruled his province on the lower Volga despotically, and in 1705 his misrule resulted in a major revolt in Astrakhan.
This time, her application was approved, by "the same civil servants who had acted despotically on other occasions and had told me – almost smiling – that I wasn't allowed to travel".
Substantial shows could feel incidental: immaterial grit in despotically whirring gears.
Kaschei, traditionally a nondancing grotesque who despotically holds his realm in terrified thrall, is here a vain, highly mobile figure of bizarre glamour with black robes, green gloves and green headdress.
