Sentence examples for dictator it from inspiring English sources

Chile is still governed under a constitution that was written when Augusto Pinochet was dictator; it gives the military independent powers over selecting its commanders and even senators.

If the leader of the free world is embarrassed for the Chinese dictator, it is not the principles of our founders that animate him, but their antithesis.

Innocent people who have no say in politics, local, national or international, will die horrid deaths so that Washington can replace the dictator it once supported with another.

The paradoxical fact is that if you want to stay in office as a dictator, it is better to be a narcissistic totalitarian than a run-of-the-mill autocrat.

Plus, combined with 2012's The Dictator, it marks a definitive move away from the mockumentaries that made Baron Cohen so famous; though it's probably a little difficult not to get recognised in public now he's a big name landing bit parts in Les Misérables and Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Little wonder, then, that the party's Youth League President, Julius Malema, recently called Zuma a dictator: It was a thinly disguised effort to discredit him ahead of the leadership conference, and unsurprisingly resulted in Malema's suspension – a harsh move indicative of the nature of the tensions around the conferences.

After years of claiming that, unlike Western imperialists, it supports Africa's people, not its dictators, it may feel it has to back the publication of data about payments.But there is no guarantee that China will see the light; and, in the meantime, Western companies are likely to find themselves at a disadvantage.

Now that the west is no longer able to deal solely with the Arab dictators, it must turn its attention to building trust with the Arab people.

A GENERATION ago, when Brazil, like much of South America, was run by insular dictators, it would not have dreamed of inviting its neighbours round and they probably would not have turned up.

"Young dictators?" It is the question of our times.

Before the Soviet dictators, it was emirs, khans and other traditional elders who ruled.