Sentence examples for repressive dictators from inspiring English sources

Is the United States no better than those governed by repressive dictators who have no regard for individual rights?

Its 23 million citizens were sequestered under one of the 20th century's most repressive dictators: Nicolae Ceauşescu.

Resentment will grow if the United States chooses short-term stability or support for repressive dictators over long-term commitments to democracy and individual rights.

The image of Arab Spring activists using Twitter to challenge repressive dictators has been replaced, in the public imagination, by that of ISIS propagandists luring vulnerable Western teen-agers to Syria via YouTube videos and Facebook chats.

In his address, Mr. Schwarz described the arts as "a weapon in the war against repressive dictators and governments," and called for more governmental and corporate spending for the arts.

"The kind of people that this president seems to like — those who are repressive dictators — those are the individuals that generally use that kind of phrase and those kind of words," Meeks said.

It is irredeemably tarnished when the benefactor is a corrupt and repressive dictator.

Her son ruled Korea from 1980 to 1988 as a brutal and repressive dictator.

I don't think he [Putin] has got the infrastructure to be a proper repressive dictator".

It was a place of almost total hopelessness, with some of the world's most destitute people, few doctors and run by a particularly repressive dictator, "Papa Doc François Duvalierr.

Many French newspaper and television reports on Syria during Mr. Assad's visit have portrayed him as a repressive dictator who rules with little regard for human rights.