History shows that tyrants and would-be tyrants always attempt to destroy a free press.
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The authorities in Zhanjiang, a city in the southern province of Guangdong, claim to have dealt an effective blow to "vehicle tyrants" (taxi-business mafias), "sand tyrants" (gangs that control the sand-mining industry), "sea tyrants" (those involved in the seafood business) and "basket tyrants" (those engaged in the basket trade).
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In The High Crusade, a band of medieval British holy crusaders gets diverted from France by an invasion of alien tyrants, but the joke, of course, is on the alien tyrants.
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To — to tyrants and victims, and secrets and lies.
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To -- to tyrants and victims, and secrets and lies.
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It's that thread of pleasure that Greenblatt claps onto, tracking the qualities that make Shakespeare's tyrants so attractive to us — and, in turn, what makes real-life tyrants so attractive to their followers.
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A few years ago, popular criticism focused trendily and myopically on the pleasure of watching tyrants at work; we could all take it as read, the thinking generally went, that tyrants are bad.
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In the past American governments have shamefacedly worked with tyrants.
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"Assassination to remove tyrants is just, not murder," he wrote.
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Extinguishing this is the goal of mass murderers and tyrants.
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Such tactics were deployed by 20th century tyrants like Stalin.
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Gray's novel "Lovers and Tyrants" for The New York Times.
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"The tyrants of the world have lost one," he said.
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President Trump will to confront the tyrants with America's determination.
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"He has stood with tyrants over free leaders," said Klobuchar.
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Like our era's current tyrants, he's both terrifying and buffoonish.
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Source: Dictators' Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants
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The problem we all seeFrom bullies at school to bullies in political offices, from tyrants in other countries to tyrants in the home, we've all come in contact with this problem in some way.
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Software backdoors are for the last war (terrorism) and wannabe tyrants.
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Human rights Amnesty International usually goes after dictators, tyrants and warlords.
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"Your apostate brother was a loyalist to the tyrants," he said.
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The tyrants remain in power until public opposition forces a choice.
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"I didn't know tyrants could smile like that," Marco's character says.
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And liberty from tyrants and totalitarian rulers may require armed struggle.
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Source: Dictators' Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants, Britannica
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Source: Dictators' Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants, VICE
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Source: Dictators' Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants, Time
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To see slaves, women, and Jewish people exact revenge on their tyrants?
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"These tyrants will never hand over power peacefully," says a Kuwaiti dissident.
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It's the same evil and cowardly impulse that drives abusers and tyrants.
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The central men become abusive tyrants once they secure status and wealth.
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Politically, eugenics has been an ugly word: the promise of genocidal tyrants.
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This everyman has proved useful in the fight against local tyrants, too.
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Trump is a gift to the world's tyrants in two important ways.
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The team does battle with Nazis and other assorted tyrants and supervillains.
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The trouble with these tyrants' language was what they used it for.
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And education is controlled by tyrants, so we are left with media.
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Source: Dictators' Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants, Business Insider
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An examination of Shakespeare's tyrants from Richard III to Macbeth, it delves into the rhetoric of tyrants and the systems that enable them and does everything possible to point in Trump's direction without ever quite mentioning his name.
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An explanation of the quote can be found here, but essentially it refers to the idea that the pigs have become just as bad as the humans — the idea of new tyrants replacing old tyrants and becoming interchangeable.
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Tinpot tyrants have a way of seducing people out of their democratic yearnings.
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It protects the right to shoot tyrants, and … to shoot at them effectively.
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Tyrants such as Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko (and later, Vladimir Putin) did not figure.
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Nostalgia for tyrants is not unusual—witness the cults of Stalin and Mao.
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"He has showered with praise some of the world's worst tyrants," McCain added.
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Tyrants, religious fundamentalists, white nationalists, radical Islamic terrorists, we have got them all.
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Our new love-hate relationship is with our phones, those gorgeous little tyrants.
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Democratically elected leaders borrow from the anti-press playbook of dictators and tyrants.
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Mr. Soto pointed out southern lapwings, cinnamon-bellied ground tyrants, and Austral negritos.
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And secondly, an experiment has begun that could declaw some of these tyrants.
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Tyrants and terrorists trailed blood and rubble across the Middle East and Europe.
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Most died in famines after socialist tyrants forced people to practice inefficient collective farming.
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His warm words and praise are reserved for some of the world's worst tyrants.
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In fact, one of the trademarks of tyrants is their low tolerance for comics.
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But this is how tyrants, this is how autocrats, this is how dictators behave.
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They are the direct pipeline for foreign tyrants to access America's inner political sanctum.
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It entailed putting limits on politics that would restrain both tyrants and tyrannical majorities.
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History teaches us that we must stop dictators and tyrants before they seize power.
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His inaction on his own "red line" sent a message to power hungry tyrants.
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The second: The tyrants causing the mayhem were brought to heel, despite Russia's protestations.
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Moreover, it is instructive that free exchange of information is precisely what tyrants fear.
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Both are bad, but tyrants at least produce a degree of stability and predictability.
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That would be Richard III, the most vicious and cunning of all Shakespeare's tyrants.
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"We are not a nation that tolerates bullies or wannabe tyrants," Mr. Murphy said.
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Eventually, tyrants die; love prevails; and sisters separated at birth find each other again.
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Abroad, he has insulted the allies upon whom America depends, and he befriended tyrants.
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Embarrassing, ordinary objects like the hamper are empowered in small spaces; they become tyrants.
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The lies of tyrants and would-be tyrants are bad literature, and we know they are lies almost before they are fact-checked; we know them as lies by the world they conjure, one in which only supplicants and masters can live.
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It's the kind of conflict that transforms friends into enemies, thoughtful dreamers into isolated tyrants.
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The former would suggest that we were less conquering tyrants and more open-minded lovers.
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So it makes sense that people might believe that it's a statement against all tyrants.
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New administrations should be prepared to be tested by many of these dictators and tyrants.
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In such a world, the students of civilization transform into tyrants over their fellow man.
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Those who say "Thus always to tyrants!" can say it only when they shoot somebody.
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Ms. Oyeyemi writes about ghosts and tyrants in faraway lands with a straight-faced confidence.
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Our great national heroes were decent leaders who defeated brutes and tyrants without imitating them.
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"Let tyrants shake their iron rod," the hymn opens, with a stirring and catchy melody.
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China's tyrants may believe Xiaobo's death on Thursday in captivity shows their strength and victory.
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It's OK to be put off by his praise and apologia for philosophically aligned tyrants.
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And the decision to rise up against tyrants is the North Korean people's, not ours.
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Another lesson for tyrants: You do not subjugate a people by taking everything from them.
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"It was intended for tyrants abusing their own people," he said in a later interview.
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Instead, the world saw the now-familiar display: criticism of allies, love for tyrants and lies.
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"I can't describe how bad this is for the Republicans to act like tyrants," Thomson said.
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There did not seem to be a single statesman in attendance, only hucksters and petty tyrants.
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They were fleeing the pogroms, escaping tyrants, running from war or just seeking a better life.
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By elevating such vicious tyrants to the dignity of statesmen, the U.N. gave them moral cover.
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"Embarrassing, ordinary objects like the hamper are empowered in small spaces; they become tyrants," wrote Tempest.
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To believe otherwise is to resign oneself to a world of nothing but tyrants and graves.
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The deep resentment that the Iranian people feel toward the turbaned tyrants should strengthen this resolve.
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"In a democracy you don't pay tribute to dictators or tyrants," parliamentary spokeswoman Adriana Lastra said.
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"The young and silly can become great tyrants," our omniscient narrator observes, and so Isabella does.
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"Enemy of the people" is, of course, a phrase historically associated with Stalin and other tyrants.
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Like tyrants, he wants to sic the Justice Department and the FBI on his political opponents.
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"When Donald Trump speaks on foreign policy, tyrants rest easier and dissidents and refugees lose hope."
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"I mean that was the main kind of speech that tyrants would seek to suppress," he added.
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It's a clever chess move by Bharara: force the firing, make the administration look like the tyrants.
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Dictators and tyrants are using Trump's words to justify their own abuses of power in their countries.
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". He later described trade unionists as "tyrants, whose selfish and sectional pretensions need to be bravely opposed.
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Dante, in his Divine Comedy, placed flatterers in the eighth circle of hell -- below murderers and tyrants.
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During the debate, Klobuchar said that she agreed that the president sided with "tyrants" over U.S. allies.
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Yes, sociopathic tyrants would probably rise to the top in some corners of a post-apocalyptic world.
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Either tyrants buy what they want or parliamentary systems easily approve a prime minister's defense budget request.
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Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan condemned the president's comments, calling them cover for "tyrants" around the globe.
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Olympiacos, BATE, Basel and Dinamo Zagreb are no longer exceptions, small-town tyrants in second-rate leagues.
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Or, frankly, a guy who seems to like tyrants more than he does small-d democratic leaders.
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In Vietnam, Belarus, Egypt and elsewhere, resilient tyrants rule through police monitoring, ethnic division and brute coercion.
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No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants, and murderous dictators.
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"It might be the only ammunition that is left in order to bring down tyrants," he says.
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They're both cruel tyrants who have starved and neglected their populations, precipitating humanitarian crises of historic proportions.
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" Later in the speech, Bush praised President Ronald Reagan for standing up to "the brutality of tyrants.
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"Trump is a petulant, dangerously unbalanced reality star who will coddle tyrants and alienate allies," Elmets said.
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No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rouge states, brutal tyrants, and murderous dictators.
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And yet, amid all the tyrants and criminals like Charles Manson, there are trains, surfers, Gumby, and Batman.
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But at least in the gap between tyrants, Cleisthenes came back and proposed a radical and dangerous idea.
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This is why tyrants exploit isolationism and polarization in democratic nations like the United States, Canada and France.
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Nazi Germany benefitted from such deals with the devil, as have rogue nations and tyrants before and since.
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Because the framers of the constitution wanted to hold back tyrants and mobs, social media aggravate Washington gridlock.
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And that's why we propose leading our alliances and helping other countries develop and pushing back against tyrants.
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So advises "Declaration of Jihad Against the Country's Tyrants", an al-Qaeda manual found in Manchester in 2000.
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Rather, it reinforces the sense that Trump is someone who likes to chum around with tyrants and billionaires.
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And that's why we propose leading our alliances and helping other countries develop, and pushing back against tyrants.
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A start would be to recognize the vicious character of the dictators and tyrants whom the U.N. enables.
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When that promise also proved hollow, and the colony's rulers became tyrants, the settlers took up arms again.
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Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts.
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In "Tyrannical Minds," Haycock uses such tales to illustrate that childhood experiences do not by themselves make tyrants.
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Social media consumes the public imagination like the giant statues of tyrants from former times consumed public space.
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You can take back with you a message to the tyrants of Tehran: Do not test Israel's resolve.
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The civilized world was recently appalled at Trump's outreach to tyrants from North Korea, the Philippines and Turkey.
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In Sudan mass protests led to the ejection of Omar al-Bashir, one of the world's vilest tyrants.
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It has an ugly history of being wielded by dictators and tyrants who sought to control public information.
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Opponents called it a step back to medieval times and a license for violent behavior by domestic tyrants.
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Well, history suggests that absolute monarchs become absolute tyrants, and that their sense of themselves becomes grotesquely inflated.
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Daenerys, with her fateful musings about ridding the world from tyrants, is well on her way to becoming one.
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Second, a few fiff-faffs over communist tyrants aside, Mr Corbyn is acquitting himself quite well as party leader.
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His fall marks the culmination of four months of almost ceaseless protests against one of Africa's longest-ruling tyrants.
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"We very gently try to show them not to shout, not to be tyrants," he says of the students.
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I'm ever so happy to return to writing and thinking without the officiousness of editorial tyrants or corporate standards.
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And we are always prepared to defend the vital interests of our people against the cruel ambition of tyrants.
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"I have served tyrants most of my life — they all talk about destiny," Varys said, and he's not wrong.
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That is not to deny that once a pandemic does spread, tyrants have an easier hand imposing strict measures.
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Orchestra conductors are notorious tyrants, cruel and demanding, with near-total control over the artistic lives of the players.
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He is also the author of "Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency" (Encounter Books, 2013).
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And Robert Mugabe's death this week at 95 is a reminder that tyrants can endure longer than anyone expects.
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The rule of law is the principle that protects every American from the abuse of monarchs, despots and tyrants.
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Leaders, it was said, weren't dictators or tyrants; instead of ordering us around, they influenced, motivated, and inspired us.
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At every stop, with every tweet, he scattered petals upon tyrants, praised himself and claimed to have achieved great triumphs.
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The "right to shoot tyrants," as Napolitano put it, warns our leaders away from the temptation of governing too oppressively.
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Oil bankrolls countries that bring stability to global geopolitics as well as those in the grip of tyrants and terrorists.
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FROM Siberian banishment to the Soviet gulag, the cruelty of punishments under Russia's tyrants has yielded a commensurately rich literature.
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In his future, McAulty's robots are benevolent monarchs, bloodthirsty tyrants, and unknowable gods who hold all the cards against humans.
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Trump would put us on the side of tyrants and monarchs, the people our founders tried to disentangle us from.
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"I will leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his attraction to tyrants," she said during a speech last June.
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Crosley's self-deprecation is evident in clever but exaggerated metaphors that cast her as the beleaguered victim of teenage tyrants.
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Now that the tyrants had been brought down, equality was unimportant and markets could be left to work their magic.
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The printing press offered the prospect that tyrants would never be able to kill a book or suppress an idea.
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Absolute power, Saudis say, has a way of trickling down, of turning ordinary policemen and public officials into petty tyrants.
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Machiavelli's most famous book, The Prince, is widely viewed as an instruction manual for tyrants, and it kind of is.
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As soon as the pics went viral, Chinese netizens called upon local authorities to arrest the two tyrants and punish them.
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Under militia protection, Shia pilgrims celebrate their liberation from 1,400 years of Sunni oppression and tyrants who killed their founding imams.
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Now is the time to show what a Trump Doctrine – peace through strength – looks like when it is tested by tyrants.
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Speaking with Hillary Clinton in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden did an extended riff on Donald Trump's love of tyrants.
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"He's allowing billions of dollars to go to tyrants who hate America," said Cruz, long a critic of Obama's Cuba policy.
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The radical efforts of "damnatio memoriae" only increase the profile of the censored and showcase the inner tyrants of the left.
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But it's deranged to believe that he's "capable" of the kinds of atrocities that "the worst tyrants in history" actually committed.
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But people are so grumpy, what with the petty tyrants and such, that it's easy to forget how recently lightning struck.
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" Ted Cruz, also at the town hall, blasted Obama for "allowing billions of dollars to go to tyrants who hate America.
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In their time, as it is in ours, civility was defined by the powerful and used like a club by tyrants.
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But is deregulating coal, degrading environmental standards, stripping women of contraceptives and challenging tyrants around the world to war their candy?
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" In contrast, Gamal Eid, a prominent human rights activist, said on Twitter: "My condolences to all tyrants, they lost one today!
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If we reject these opportunities, then we embolden tyrants and invite them to expand their influence into lives around the world.
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"Israel salutes President Trump and Vice President Pence for confronting the tyrants of Tehran," he told the audience, which included Pence.
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What I have a problem with is when they don't know what they're talking about and they end up defending tyrants.
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What if this man emulated and befriended other modern tyrants on an equal footing rather than as a groveling fan-boy?
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"These tuhuangdi" — local tyrants — "get away with everything," said Pan, a fruit seller who quit mining last year at age 34.
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Aside from displacing tyrants and leading to the eventual killing of Osama bin Laden, none of this turned out as pitched.
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"When Ronald Reagan spoke on foreign policy, tyrants sat uneasy on their thrones and dissidents and refugees took heart," Gerson writes.
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That's why he backs tyrants who hate our freedoms [the screen shows old quotes from Mr Sanders praising Fidel Castro of Cuba].
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I tried to tell the story of my love for this land, which cannot get away from the tyrants who oppress her.
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In addition to being a misreading of history, the claim is amusing hyperbole to those who have suffered under real-life tyrants.
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Because if we do, then we will also be reminded that London doesn't succumb to plagues, tyrants or terrorists without a fight.
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The assailant was known to authorities and said after the attack that he considered the police to be "tyrants", the statement said.
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Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un learned lessons from the U.S. toppling other evil tyrants — like Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi.
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Kim understands there is a new, no-nonsense global sheriff on duty who has zero tolerance for little tyrants with big arsenals.
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The echoes of yesterday's absolute tyrants are present in Surkov's words — and, indeed, in the fabric of Putin's unrepresentative, kleptocratic state itself.
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Two of the 20th Century's most ruthless tyrants—China's dictator Mao Tse-Tung and the USSR's tyrant Joseph Stalin—were effectively deterred.
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Mr. Kim, the former North Korean dictator, was brutal even by the standards of Russia, which has seen its share of tyrants.
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While demonstrating a lack of understanding and support for democratic values, he also praises and expresses admiration for the worst global tyrants.
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In Vietnam, Afghanistan and elsewhere, the United States cast flawed figures as veritable George Washingtons before writing them off as corrupt tyrants.
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And of course, when I make drawings, political cartoons, it tends to be of the baddies in the world and the tyrants.
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"There were scores of little petty chiefs and tyrants who lost no opportunity of causing trouble in the unsettled times," Flashman recounts.
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"I will leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants," Clinton said during a speech in San Diego, Calif.
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He argued the world community had a duty to intervene to remove murderous tyrants who oppressed their own citizens and threatened their neighbors.
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"I've seen this type of behavior and actions on the part of foreign tyrants ... and autocrats in my national security career," he said.
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Socrates, the incorrigible free spirit, was a soldier in the Peloponnesian War and a citizen who lived through Athens of the Thirty Tyrants.
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For the reputation as a strong group of vicious tyrants, they're certainly quite fearful of something as simple as cartoons and TV programs.
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He tries to govern by one-man decree, declares phony emergencies to crack down on immigration, resists Congressional oversight and courts tyrants abroad.
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Though even tyrants need some popular support, often lots of it, they can just act on their own and use force if necessary.
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Rather than reach out to allies, he wants to bludgeon many of them, even as he has shown a disturbing affinity for tyrants.
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When Middle Eastern tyrants are exiled after they lose power, Minawi says, sometimes people forget about them to focus on reconstructing their countries.
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We insisted on supporting the "democracy" of the Arab spring, which resulted in the replacement of undemocratic domestic tyrants by undemocratic international terrorists.
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He is sympathetic to Erdogan, as he is to other tyrants, because he is indifferent to considerations of human rights and civil liberties.
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How often do we get the "Shakespeare is so contemporary" routine — 400 years later, yes, people fall in love and tyrants are jerks.
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"These passports are your tyrants," intones Muhaxheri into the microphone, as their national identities – Albanian, Macedonian, Kosovar, Montenegran, Bosnian – go up in flames.
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Being there for its people through two world wars, millions of weddings and births, countless rulers and tyrants, unthinkable plagues and miraculous events.
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With cunning and verve, Mr Baram brings these virtuosi of the lie together in Brest-Litovsk as the sham alliance between their tyrants collapses.
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"This law calls for the exoneration of tyrants in the home," says Maria Mokhova, executive director of the "Sisters" crisis center for abuse victims.
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And unlike modern day tyrants in Asia or Africa, Trump faces a robust political system of devolved power specifically set up to thwart tyranny.
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The Americans, meanwhile, use the DMZ to signal to voters back home that they won't take any guff from funny-haired tyrants like Kim.
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When Clinton, Cruz, Priebus, and all the rest condemn the violence at his rallies, they look like the censorious tyrants he says they are.
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Manafort's "South Bronx" is the world of foreign tyrants and dictators and the political consultants who help them to perpetuate their regimes of misery.
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They feel an instinctive aversion to tyrants everywhere, and an underlying sympathy for democratic regimes, even those with whom we may currently have disputes.
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Our children won't face the epic evildoers of the DC Comics world, but they will certainly encounter, or flirt with being, pint-size tyrants.
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The rule of law is the bedrock of American democracy, the principle that protects every American from the abuse of monarchs, despots and tyrants.
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"If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that's a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps."
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Humanity is enslaved by these gold-thirsty tyrants, whom are unaware that their 'man-animals' are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime.
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"This law calls for the exoneration of tyrants in the home," said Maria Mokhova, Executive Director of the "Sisters" crisis center for abuse victims.
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He loves splashy headlines, defying the wisdom of diplomatic sages, the spotlight of one-on-one summits, jabbing allies and using tyrants as pen pals.
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We've all done odd jobs to make ends meet, whether it's babysitting, flipping burgers at McDonald's, or working as a personal assistant to Hollywood tyrants.
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"If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that's a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps."Sen.
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He takes on bureaucratic institutions, high-powered tyrants, homophobia, and social issues in an approach that embodies the very definition of "punch up" in comedy.
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A study by Mr Powell published in 2012 found that such "coup-proofing" efforts were actually more useful to tyrants than improving their countries' economies.
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That's generous of Donny, but then what does "whatever the worst tyrants in history were capable of doing, he is capable of doing" actually mean?
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Those against the spread of statuary consider the figures symbols of a creeping repression, of making authoritarianism more palatable by erecting monuments to bygone tyrants.
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It is an incredibly dangerous signal, the most powerful man in the world giving one of its most impetuous and imperious petty tyrants free reign.
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The rogue police officers inside the craft waved a banner that referred to an article in the Constitution that allows for civil uprisings against tyrants.
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When the Founders enacted the First Amendment, they could not have imagined the personage of Donald Trump, but they did have tyrants in mind. ♦
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The tyrants of tolerance have only themselves to blame for having so taunted their religious neighbours that a government came to office pledged to act.
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"I've seen this type of behavior and actions on the part of foreign tyrants and despots and autocrats in my national security career," he added.
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" — Benjamin Franklin, 1722 "There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.
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His long reign, coming after the coups and counter-coups of the 1970s, brought his country a measure of stability, that familiar lipstick of tyrants.
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Matt Bevin alluded to Thomas Jefferson's famous aphorism about the need to periodically water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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His "fake news" catchphrase has caught on among tyrants worldwide, with Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Mr. Maduro and Mr. Duterte all gleefully using it.
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We could have declared with youthful vigor that 'the emperor wears no clothes', denouncing the world's tyrants and smashing the traditions that would otherwise doom us.
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That is doubtless a relief for the region's warring tyrants, like Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and strongmen, such as Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt.
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A new dark age could descend in some regions where tyrants abuse their subjects and where jihadists or criminal gangs roam freely to terrorize dispossessed populations.
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Playlist: "Into the Crypt of Rays" / "Procreation of the Wicked" / "Circle of the Tyrants" / "Dethroned Emperor" / "Morbid Tales" / "Danse Macabre" / "Dawn of Megiddo" Moving right along!
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It was about standing up for the oppressed against powerful tyrants and recognizing the true sacrifices so many Cubans have made to fight for their dignity.
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Silence may seem like a neutral approach to the issues at hand, but it's not—it's a handshake with the oppressor; a compliance with the tyrants.
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The Trump administration just released a new rule that will make it easier for terrorists, tyrants, and criminal gangs to receive U.S.-supplied guns and ammunition.
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Those 15,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of tyrants and drug-addled Minutemen guards would be capable of destroying our planet nine times over, she explained.
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America is still in a perilous place, and even a weakened Trump can torment migrants, pack the courts, wreck the environment and suck up to tyrants.
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Those were the days of liberal anger and paranoia, undisclosed locations and known unknowns, tyrants pulled out of spider holes and America pulled into imperial adventures.
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Western double standards in the Israel-Palestine conflict, President Trump's embrace of Middle East tyrants and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, feature prominently in this narrative.
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Although Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are in the vanguard, other tyrants are tightening their grip by crushing dissent, eliminating opponents, and destroying independent civil society.
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"Your rhetoric is creating a climate in which dictators and tyrants are able to employ your words in suppressing a free press," Sulzberger told the president.
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The only existing parallels are tyrants like Stalin, who used fictions of saboteurs and foreign agents to keep the population in line, and explain away any setbacks.
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Mixing stark warnings that Mr. Trump would imperil America's security with caustic personal critiques — "I'll leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants" — Mrs.
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Every problem with Hillary Clinton's campaign comes attached to a reminder that the alternative is the businessman with a terrible business record and attraction to murderous tyrants.
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In this story, the king was cruel and self-indulgent, as tyrants more often tend to be, and his second in command was a man named Haman.
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If we wanted to ask the question in a different way, we might ask what weapons have been the most successful in unseating tyrants in recent history?
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She more or less literally tells Trump to seek psychiatric help rather than the presidency: I'll leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants.
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Equality before the law and equality of social dignity are still the root of economic, as well as spiritual, flourishing — whatever tyrants may think to the contrary.
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I can't speak to all of their motives, but I was unwilling to capitulate to a system dominated by petty tyrants willing to win at any cost.
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"As Vice President Biden said in Philadelphia, Donald Trump embraces dictators and tyrants like Putin and Kim Jong-un while alienating our closest allies," Mr. Bates said.
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The economy is up, foreign tyrants are afraid, ISIS has lost most of its territory, our embassy will be moved to Jerusalem and tax reform is accomplished.
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Biden during a campaign launch in Philadelphia on Saturday accused President Donald Trump of cozying up to "dictators and tyrants" like Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The previous administration's reluctance to engage militarily, Ms. Rosett writes, has emboldened tyrants across the globe and damaged American credibility as the defender of the free world.
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As such, these videos of a birthing in reverse document the process of mothers undoing the moment they gave birth to men who would become tyrants and dictators.
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"Censorship, after all, is the tribute tyrants pay to an assumption that the public knows the difference between serious discourse and entertainment -- and cares," the media theorist wrote.
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She's a revolutionary, working to overthrow the Lannister dynasty and install a new government — one that is hostile to "tyrants," as she says this episode — in its place.
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After eliminating the high school tyrants one by one in a series of murders framed as suicides, Veronica realizes her new boyfriend poses the biggest problem of all.
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The genius of modern tyrants has been in realizing you don't need to dislodge democracy; you need to co-opt it, you need to make it your own.
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The Arab spring showed that it may be these constituent elements, more than such theatrics as toppling tyrants or holding noisy elections, that are the key to success.
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The following seven photographers mark street photography's many contemporary directions and its ability to stay varied and continue to grow beyond the strictures of its most traditional tyrants.
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He now has the opportunity to stand up to some of the world's worst tyrants, as well as diplomats of the Obama State Department, which he will inherit.
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He's dissing US allies, assailing the global trading system, broke bread with North Koreans, is railing against institutions that check his domestic power and making friends with tyrants.
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Europe's response is crucial, for it must step up to the bullying tyrants on their borders and defeat the illiberal forces surging at the ballot boxes at home.
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In each of these cases, and so many others, the tyrants knew that murders of the previously powerful sent a well-justified chill down the spines of millions.
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With this brand-new choice — paradise on earth or speedy demise — the "obstinate little man" made a revolution that shook the world and inspired tyrants round the globe.
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" He quoted Langston Hughes: "Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— / Let it be that great strong land of love / Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme.
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" Biden, at a campaign launch in Philadelphia on Saturday, said: "Are we a nation that embraces dictators and tyrants like (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and Kim Jong Un?
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The Democrats were particularly unsparing with regard to the president's foreign policy record, calling him an ally to tyrants and a figure of fun on the international stage.
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Clinton castigated Mr. Trump for his affinity for Mr. Putin, saying the Republican candidate had an "affection for tyrants" that would make him a poor commander in chief.
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These fighters view the Uzbek authorities as "Taghut", a Koranic term for tyrants who set themselves up as false Gods, and most now focus on waging jihad abroad.
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"I've seen this type of behavior and actions on the part of foreign tyrants and despots and autocrats for many, many years," Brennan said Wednesday, calling into MSNBC.
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In " Dictators' Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants," Victoria Clark and Melissa Scott offer astonishing insights into dictators' table manners, food vices, and fears of poisonings.
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It is as if these petty tyrants live in a world without honest mirrors, without others, without gravity, and they are buffered from the consequences of their failures.
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Before her death, Dany named Grey Worm the Commander of her army, and she said they would not stop fighting until everyone in the world was liberated from tyrants.
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Its proponents argue that, just as individuals are not liable for fraudulent borrowing in their name, entire populations should not have to repay debts run up by deposed tyrants.
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Opposition activists say that while Chavez and Castro may have set out with good intentions to fight the region's deep economic inequalities and elite politicians, they turned into tyrants.
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Videos of a birthing in reverse in Candice Breitz's Labour document the process of mothers undoing the moment they gave birth to men who would become tyrants and dictators.
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If more African courts could try human-rights abusers, either in their home countries or in those where they have taken refuge, then perhaps fewer tyrants would escape justice.
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But this PBS documentary series also provides modern-day resonance -- a guide to tyrants of the past, conveying lessons on how those tactics can be employed in the present.
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The patriotic left is appalled whenever the president, who once compared our intelligence services to Nazis, praises foreign dictators and tyrants who attack the freedoms that Americans hold dear.
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She will be remembered in history, like Loujain al-Hathloul, as a moral leader, perhaps Nobel Peace Prize winner, who confronted tyrants and changed the world for the better.
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The new policy will make it easier for terrorists, tyrants and criminal gangs to get access to U.S.-made semi-automatic pistols, assault-style firearms, sniper rifles and ammunition.
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""De Tocqueville wrote that tyrants maintained their power by 'isolating' their citizens -- and that Americans guaranteed their freedom by their remarkable ability to band together without any direction from government.
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"Declaration of Jihad Against the Country's Tyrants", for example, was a cornerstone of Building Intent, a geoprofiling program developed by Alper Caglayan of Milcord, in Massachusetts, for America's defence department.
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" Torba claims Gab's success boils down to its focus on protecting free speech and the influx of users banned by "Silicon Valley tyrants and their centralized privacy-nightmare data silos.
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"In most, cases if not all cases, that has ended in a bad way — look at what happened in South America when we supported brutal tyrants and dictators," he said.
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But with its talk of "tyrants" and "history" and "a new day," it had the music and lyrics of the kind of acceptance speech that ends with a balloon drop.
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Rather than the challenges of psychological profiling and crime prevention, he focuses the final chapters on Donald Trump and the behaviors of tyrants that he appears to admire or copy.
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Stanton invoked white supremacist slanders when she opposed the 19143th Amendment — which ostensibly granted black men the right to vote — casting men of color as "Sambos," tyrants and incipient rapists.
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Ancient historians like Herodotus often associate writing with the behavior of "barbarian tyrants from the East," notably the Persians, as opposed to democracy, which is much more concerned with speech.
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Even Benjamin Franklin, among the most heterodox leaders, proposed Moses crossing the Red Sea as the new nation's emblem and "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" as its motto.
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And it is this aspect of the rule -- making it easier for foreign terrorists, tyrants and gangs to get their hands on deadly US weaponry -- that poses the greatest danger.
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We will never know for sure, but we do know it violated his Inaugural promise that he would shake the hands of tyrants only if they first unclenched their fists.
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An avowed human-rights campaigner, he has embraced left-wing tyrants such as Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro (a "champion of social justice"), who locked up opponents and muzzled the press.
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Vox's Ezra Klein has theorized that it might stem from Trump essentially believing politicians should have near dictatorial powers — something that would fit with his seeming appreciation for strongmen and tyrants.
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But if I see them using gas and using things that — I mean even some of the worst tyrants in the world didn't use the kind of gases that they used.
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And so the man who openly admires tyrants like Vladimir V. Putin and praised the Chinese crackdown in Tiananmen Square because it showed "strength" has become the repository of their hopes.
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President Donald Trump can be shamed into (kind of) walking back comments that reflect kindly on known tyrants — all it takes is resounding criticism that overshadows any of his related accomplishments.
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"The difference this time is that the discontent is not just opposition," said Ms. Golinger, who wrote a memoir called "Confidante of 'Tyrants,' " about her ties with Venezuelan and other leaders.
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Revolutions gave way to crushing tyranny throughout the Middle East, the tyrants themselves turning against each other in a cold war that destroyed the idea of any kind of shared destiny.
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That vision changed Ginsberg's life, and Blake became a touchstone figure for many radical American artists of the 1950s and his destroy-all-tyrants radar continued to burn through the 1960s.
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Germans are adding an angry rejoinder that Mr. Trump is a godsend to despots and tyrants around the world, but they refuse to buy spare parts for their grounded Luftwaffe (air force).
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Despite Biden's calls for unity -- and insistence that "working together matters" -- Biden attacked Trump, who he said is inspiring tyrants across the globe to stifle dissent, and congressional Republicans on several occasions.
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He wants so badly to be taken seriously, to be feared like the old tyrants of the Empire, but as soon as that desire becomes clear to the audience, it defeats itself.
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It is no accident that great speeches, as those of Pericles, Cicero, Henry V, Thomas More, Lincoln, and Churchill still move us, or that those of great tyrants can still entice us.
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" Eskandar bluntly summarized his thoughts on the speech, saying: "Today it felt that the US is bent on empowering tyrants in pursuit of its animosity towards Iran, no matter what the cost.
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On a show frequently about how societies that forget their history are doomed to repeat it — in sectarian revenge cycles, conquering tyrants, sacks of great cities — Bran can see all of history.
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He has undercut America's allies and embraced tyrants and autocrats, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, who before Trump took office invaded a nation friendly to America and seeking to break Moscow's shackles.
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"The verdict sends a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury, and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end," he said.
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There is a certain pleasure to watching Shakespeare's tyrants work, to watching Richard III brazenly woo Lady Anne over the body of a man he killed or listening to Macbeth's mournful, poetic speeches.
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Fans have assumed that Arya would go home to Winterfell, not King's Landing, but with her newfound confidence at striking down tyrants she wants to take out the biggest level boss in Westeros.
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" "His Holiness, Pope Francis, told this body from the very spot I stand tonight that 'to imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.
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His Holiness, Pope Francis, told this body from the very spot I stand tonight that 'to imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.
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This blatant disregard for the well-being of their citizens has exposed Iran's rulers for what they are: tyrants enriching themselves and expanding their power at the expense of the people they govern.
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Gray established herself as a novelist in the mid-1970s with "Lovers and Tyrants," the semi-autobiographical story of a young French-American woman trying to understand herself and create a meaningful life.
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The economy is up, foreign tyrants are afraid, ISIS [Islamic State in Iraq and Syria] has lost most of its territory, our embassy will be moved to Jerusalem and tax reform is accomplished.
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"This is what I have to say to the tyrants of Tehran: Israel knows what you're doing, Israel knows when you're doing it and Israel knows where you're doing it," Mr. Netanyahu said.
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His attacks on the center have focused on a short animated film of Russian history that he claims reduces its glorious past to nothing but a series of bloody tyrants and unending misery.
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We also know it's the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice — to tyrants and victims, and secrets and lies.
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For some reason, and I can't imagine why, this week has got me thinking about the rise of charismatic tinpot tyrants — and how a supposedly democratic society can fall for this sort of thing.
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Her isolationism, coupled with her tolerance for some of the world's most visible tyrants, would effectively cede influence to powers like China and Russia, and erode the defense of human rights and liberal democracy.
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" 'Reprehensible' is a word I've used as a teacher to describe the actions of Hitler, other political tyrants and the exploitation of children by pedophiles," wrote Ziegler, 56, a former eighth-grade science teacher.
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"Instead we find ourselves led by those who express admiration for authoritarianism — in Russia, in China, in the Philippines, and other places who make common cause with bullies, who flirt with tyrants," Flake continued.
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"Today's FBI forgiveness of tyrants' illegal acts illustrate purpose in why I insist Americans rise up and tear down this tyrannical system that is destroying America from within," she wrote in a Facebook post.
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The painting is at once visually cacophonous and ultra-precise, compressing much of the country's vital energy and many calamitous conflicts, including racism, war, political tyrants, and Native American genocide, into a single work.
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With his eyeliner, his dandyism, his research into the psychology of male tyrants, his love for his boyfriend, Saul believes himself immune from the harm men can cause (you see where this is going).
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North Korea's return to belligerence appears to reflect frustration that three face-to-face meetings between Trump and Kim, one of the world's most reviled tyrants, have not yielded any easing of US sanctions.
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In the 1990 book "In the Time of the Tyrants," a chronicle of the Noriega years, the journalists Richard M. Koster and Guillermo Sánchez Borbón gave a startling example of Mr. Noriega's double-dealing.
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The Economist's runner up was Sudan, another country that in 2019 took a giant step from despotism when mass protests led to the removal of "one of the world's vilest tyrants," Omar al-Bashir.
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This is the new America, one in which all the old rules have been wiped away, one in which corruption is tolerated, one in which truth is denigrated, one in which tyrants are venerated.
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The school lunch debate is a fantastic illustration of the left doing what it does best: promoting a false narrative that paints Republicans as cruel tyrants who delight in depriving the needy of life's basics.
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"A clear and dangerous message has been sent to tyrants around the world: Flash enough money in front of the president of the United States, and you can literally get away with murder," Ryan wrote.
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Hitler wasn't a "hard-ass;" he was a genocidal dictator who ordered and oversaw some of the worst atrocities in modern history (he was also, as most tyrants are, a pathetic and fearful little man).
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He is taking a wrecking ball to the free press, to equality and fairness, to the value of public service and the truth, and threatening our critical alliances by playing footsie with dictators and tyrants.
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Fiancée describes heartbreak over 'lonely patriot' Khashoggi's fiancée Hatice Cengiz revealed how the couple spent their last hours together, writing that "tyrants eventually pay for their sins," in a New York Times article on Saturday.
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"If the tyrants have closed in your faces the door of hijrah, then open in their face the door of jihad," the group's spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, said in a message released in May.
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They have an old conversation about how Daenerys needs to be different than all of the other tyrants in Westerosi history, and a new one about how maybe she should name an heir to her throne.
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If you've lost your gear and been stripped of your watch—and most tyrants and terrorists love fancy watches by the way—an important and simple technique is to use the sun to find true north.
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But maybe a lifetime of shouting, idealist tyrants and hard-accented penitents has warped my expectations, because I'm just not sure that the inhabitants of Talos 1 will stick with me over the next few years.
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As we live through the largest migration in modern history, Christmas invites us to recognize our story in the millions who have been displaced by tyrants, war and poverty and to see their stories in ours.
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The establishment of a public school system was a part of this understanding — without public education, civic education would be reserved for the wealthy, and the uneducated masses would be subject to the whims of tyrants.
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During the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Posada poked fun at dictators and the bourgeoisie in general, most often by depicting calaveras dressed up as tyrants and wealthy people, while portraying the downtrodden in a dignified fashion.
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The citizen's responsibility to assess the facts and calibrate what politicians claim is not a burden — it is integral to the liberty a free people should cherish and fiercely guard against the machinations of true tyrants.
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Noah – who was born in South Africa -- said Trump has made it easier for him to understand American politics because "he himself processes the information in such a simplistic way" and even compared him to brutal tyrants.
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On a weekend that shattered most remaining taboos of American foreign policy, Trump stepped into North Korea alongside Kim and proclaimed it a "great honor" to stand alongside one of the cruelest tyrants of the current age.
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He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
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If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they've offended you, you have crossed a line to stand alongside tyrants, who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justification.
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The second was during the cold war, when East and West vied for the allegiance of newly independent African states; the Soviet Union backed Marxist tyrants while America propped up despots who claimed to believe in capitalism.
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The noisemaker pieces refer to a Purim tradition of making a loud sound at the mention of the villain Haman, an ancient Persian historical figure who has become a symbol of tyrants that threaten the Jewish people.
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But places like Pittsburgh are committed to fighting for the values of the Constitution, which protects us from tyrants and from undue prosecution, and was written to keep our nation from being ruled by an authoritarian empire.
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But she could equally have been writing about the Americans taking obscene amounts of money in order to help tyrants abroad launder their image—and then turning around to help run major prongs of American political campaigns.
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The list of customers seeking missiles, the latest weapons of mass destruction, and deadly poison gas fine-tuned by using prisoners as human Guinea pigs, is a virtual "who's who" of tyrants over the last half century.
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"In keeping with its tabloid style, the Post has sensationalized the actual or perceived fault of democratically elected leaders by running covers showing them dressed up like tyrants responsible for murder, torture and repression," the lawsuit alleges.
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Indeed, throughout history, when we think about the sorts of earth-shattering events which have redrawn our national borders, brought down tyrants and created revolutions, we have looked, first and foremost at the use of conventional weapons.
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I take it for granted that the tech barons are acquiring the power to tilt elections, and that they'll be happy to play handmaidens to tyrants soft and hard so long as they can monetize our data.
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It's here I would say something rousing about freedom of speech and its necessity in the face of would-be tyrants, but I think the exact set of circumstances around The Hunt is unlikely to be replicated.
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For a moment, a coffee cup could be seen on a table in front of Daenerys Targaryen, also known as the "Dragon Queen," who is on a mission to rid the world of tyrants at any cost.
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I'm looking at a European trade agreement again, which I think would be a good idea... People are really sickened by how this president stands with dictators instead of allies and stands with tyrants instead of innocents.
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From President Obama's unenforced "red line" in Syria to Trump's unapologetic "green light," the world's tyrants are learning useful lessons about America's actual commitment to human rights and to its friends and loyal allies around the world.
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And politically, a new showdown with the hermit nation would reveal his approach to Kim to be empty photo-op diplomacy -- and expose a misguided belief that there's something to be gained by palling around with tyrants.
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Former longtime ABC News White House correspondent Sam DonaldsonSamuel (Sam) Andrew DonaldsonSam Donaldson: History shows 'would-be tyrants always attempt to destroy a free press' Sam Donaldson slams Sarah Sanders: 'She's had a lifetime achievement Oscar for lying' MORE on Tuesday denounced President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's "wholesale attack" on the press, saying that history shows "would-be tyrants" invariably try to quash the media.
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There are bank notes from the Seychelles onto which an engraver with a sophomoric sense of humour managed to sneak on the words "sex" and "scum", caricatures of kings and tyrants, and still more penises and fart jokes.
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RNC official cites 'My Little Pony' to defend Melania Trump In the highlight of the night, Christie turned Quicken Loans Arena into a courtroom as he branded Hillary Clinton a liar who coddled tyrants, terrorists and American enemies.
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" Commentator Wael Eskandar bluntly summarized his thoughts on the January 10 speech to CNN, saying: "Today it felt that the US is bent on empowering tyrants in pursuit of its animosity towards Iran, no matter what the cost.
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A hero who could fly, who could shatter meteors to dust with one punch, reduce tyrants to tears with a few bullet-hard words, and occasionally, with strong but gentle arms, rescue a trapped puppy from a well.
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"The poor have been paying alms to the rich and the rich don't pay, and it's the tyrants and oppressors who are the ones getting this money," AQAP fighter Ali bin Talib al-Kathiri said in another video.
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If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand along tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justification.
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It has an ugly history of being wielded by dictators and tyrants who sought to control public information..." And "there are mounting signs that this incendiary rhetoric is encouraging threats and violence against journalists at home and abroad.
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Change in Syria and Iran is within reach, but the West should pay heed to cries for freedom in the both countries by the Iranians and Syrians and say goodbye to tyrants that rule in Tehran and Damascus.
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First, while western powers and foreign influences played an important role in setting the stage for conflict, the worst excesses of our tyrants, be they presidents and kings or preachers and evangelists, are products of our own societies.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain rebukes President Donald Trump in a new memoir, accusing his fellow Republican of failing to uphold U.S. values by showering praise on international "tyrants," discrediting the media, ignoring human rights and demeaning refugees.
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And how about foreign affairs: coddling tyrants and dictators while dissing our allies, a truly harmful trade policy, chaos abroad and chaos in our defense and foreign policy establishment at home — Trump has no clue what he is doing.
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Tormented by the rise to power of the current occupant of the White House, he has discerned in it a pattern chillingly reminiscent of that of the tyrants of the author whose work he has spent a lifetime studying.
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Because showers happen every day, and because they are so fundamentally unimportant, they are the perfect forum for dragging these little tyrants of preference into the light and forcing them to confess that they have, all along, been bluffing.
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Cresting crises overseas, endless scandals, personal feuds, the President's flattery of tyrants, impeachment talk and an impossible-to-ignore presidency that's barged into every American's life in a draining two and a half years will complicate Trump's narrative this time.
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EDT: President Trump has lunch with Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoTrump's new challenge is officials dishing dirt Tehran's tyrants have been provoked Senators ask State Department to expedite visa for Kurdish commander should he visit US MORE.
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The donations might be juicy, but at some point, Kempe's colleagues and prestigious board members must stop and realize that they are taking the side of tyrants, betraying the very ideals they set out to promote in the first place.
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"Behind the smokescreen, we believe that the blockading nations are seeking to isolate and punish Qatar for our independence and to retaliate against us for supporting the true aspirations of people against tyrants and dictators," Meshal bin Hamad al-Thani wrote.
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This man, after all, had egged on his followers to assault protesters, called for his political opponent to be jailed, attacked the independence of the judiciary, and repeatedly expressed an unwholesome admiration for tyrants like Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Putin.
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"Freedom," the demonstrators shouted, surprising themselves with their own forcefulness, feeling like a people in the true nationalist sense of the word, a nation that could determine its fate, and not be just a "nation" in the slogans of tyrants.
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Because that's where she's headed, as she and Missandei of Naath are "moving on up" from advising tyrants to earn a living as a working gals, balancing Mel's struggling Chelsea gallery with Missandei's earnings as a public school VSL teacher.
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Our category on Tyrants and Totalitarianism, for example, includes Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism," F. A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom," George Orwell's "Animal Farm," Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," and "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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My memories of the place, from a visit 17 years ago, include roads that vanished into deep snow, Transnistrian border guards in Soviet uniforms, and an impoverished Holocaust survivor's tale of a bleak life under Romanian, German and Soviet tyrants.
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The insane conspiracy theories that motivate people who commit anti-Semitic violence reflect a fear of real freedom: a fondness for tyrants, an aversion to ideas unlike their own and most of all, a casting-off of responsibility for complicated problems.
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" The future Broadway sensation Alexander Hamilton put it more clearly: "Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people: commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.
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The fourth cost of the tragic Syria episode is the most far-reaching — the lessons other tyrants are learning from these presidential retreats, particularly in Asia where the United States, its allies and its security partners face their gravest threats.
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This week, Obama further normalized the behavior of one the world's worst tyrants by sending deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes and U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Jeffrey DeLaurentis to pay their respects at Castro's funeral, as if he deserves any.
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Perhaps because of Gambia's size and poverty — it is home to two million people and has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world — Mr. Jammeh's abuses and eccentricities have not commanded as much attention as those of other tyrants.
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At the hearing before a packed courtroom, Judge Ellis called the recommended guideline range "excessive" and remarked that Manafort — a man who built a vast fortune consulting for tyrants of various stripes around the world — had led an otherwise "blameless" life.
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If you can survive the post-apocalyptic Earth world infested with zombies and human tyrants who are dead on the inside, then exploring the galaxy and figuring out some technical glitches on the USS Discovery should be a walk in the park.
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I mean, if you're going to turn two of the show's most important female characters into villainous tyrants, maybe it'd also be good to show a queen in power who doesn't help to perpetuate the dangerous stereotype that women are unfit to rule?
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What to watch: We don't know what will come of Bolton's seemingly empty threats about the troika tyrants having "met their match" and more sanctions, which he likely made to drive Florida's Cuban-, Venezuelan- and Nicaraguan-American voters to the polls on Tuesday.
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"This verdict sends a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end," tweeted Human Rights Watch lawyer Reed Brody, who was inside the courthouse.
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They are left with the role of addressing real threats, both cold and active, to stand up for American interests and her allies overseas, even when those allies are the common people under the boot of communism, the caliphate, or other petty tyrants.
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Doesn't she know that she is an exception in this world, where it is normal to be unhappy, to be hungry, to work non-stop and earn next to nothing, and to suffer the whims of everything from tyrants to hurricanes and earthquakes?
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" Hurd said in a series of Monday tweets that since 2016 he has called on Trump, and his predecessor President Obama, to "take action against Putin," saying that "we should not start trade wars with our allies and play nice with communist tyrants.
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All of these stories about students and their demands for trigger warnings and safe spaces, it's fascinating that it makes it seem that students are the overbearing tyrants with all of this power, when these institutions have so much power over their students.
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This room was packed with people aspiring to be like the clumsy tyrants raging against their own impotencies and inflicting their insecurities on the world they see on TV. This was a world made for and by fascists and idiots—it was hopeless.
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"Tyrants or anti-democratic governments don't like people to be too aware of things, too cultivated, too educated," said Jenart of how the Nazi party's disapproval of the Mundaneum ties to the disinformation and withholding of information campaigns happening around the world today.
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Still, backing a coup would also make it harder for Americans to advocate credibly on behalf of democracy around the world, an effort that is already compromised by President Trump's own trampling of democratic norms at home, and his enthusiasm for foreign tyrants.
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Again and again, Greenblatt retells the familiar stories of Shakespeare's egregious tyrants — Richard III, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and, unexpectedly and acutely, Jack Cade, the rebel leader in "Henry VI, Part II" — in ways that unavoidably recall the situation in America today.
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Tyrants and their cronies would neither be able to hide their assets behind the smiling façade of Nevada and Wyoming company formation agents, nor use Delaware shell companies to anonymously launder their funds through Cleveland skyscrapers or Houston high-rises or Boise bungalows.
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"I didn't expect that reaction," Trump said, "but that's OK." Trump proceeded, looking a bit subdued, to hand threats and praise to democracies and tyrants alike, while laying out a vision of a world in which "strong, sovereign nations" freely pursue their own national interests.
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The grotesque, comic-book bloodshed Stalin unleashes on the hapless, swastika-helmeted foot soldiers — who are depicted as lambs led to slaughter — reads as a projection of his megalomania, a self-image that equates the leader with the state, the modus operandi of tyrants.
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The Goddess of Pop -- who has repeatedly insulted Trump on social media -- likened the real estate mogul Sunday to the two tyrants before comparing him to Patty McCormack in the 1956 American horror film, "The Bad Seed," at a fundraising event in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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" Recalling Trump's past comments saying China showed strength in the Tiananmen Square massacre and giving credit to both North Korea's Kim Jong-un and Russia's Vladimir Putin for their leadership, Clinton said: "I'll leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants.
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"That history showed that the way tyrants had eliminated a militia consisting of all the able-bodied men was not by banning the militia but simply by taking away the people's arms, enabling a select militia or standing army to suppress political opponents," he concluded.
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"If the tyrants have closed in your faces the door to Hijrah, then open in their face the door of jihad and make their act a source of pain to them," Mr. Adnani said in a speech released by the Islamic State in May.
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In middle- or upper-middle-income suburban settings, educators are likely to appear as lazy fools, petty tyrants or, at best, genial sidekicks offering an occasional word of wisdom (think Paul Gleason in "Breakfast Club," Jane Lynch in "Glee" or Ken Jeong in "The Duff").
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Given the state of the world today — a bombastic political scene, the screen addictions and deluge of news, the conflict that has become our ambient sound — one would expect an uptick in psychotic cops, underground terrorist networks, tyrants with inexplicable hair and small hands.
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"Like any Trump endeavor, there were the inevitable distractions with tweets about the physical appearance of leaders and clear signals that he prefers the company of tyrants like Putin and Duterte," said Kurt M. Campbell, a former assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them," and added, "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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Through a policy of strength, the incoming Trump administration should seize the immediate opportunity to communicate with action to Kim Jong Un as well as our allies that the United States remains committed to standing up to tyrants and ensuring peace and stability around the globe.
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"You broadcast the news and published it in your media outlets that you injured me and killed me and here I am," said a man purporting to be Shekau in a video addressed to "tyrants of Nigeria in particular and the west of Africa in general".
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She went on to suggest that psychiatrists should look at his "affection for tyrants" like Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Trump unsurprisingly struck back on Twitter, chiding her for reading from a teleprompter, and will likely double down during a California rally tonight.
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" "We've heard it said before and we've heard it discussed before about how tyrants and autocrats and, yes, fascists, communists, others, have used the language of dehumanization to justify, well, a movement away from democracy and a movement away from decent standards," Scarborough said on "Morning Joe.
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To the Editor: What has justice come to when a judge can say that a man who has served tyrants and engaged in every manner of political skulduggery has led an "otherwise blameless life" before being found guilty of multiple counts of fraud and tax evasion?
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"A queen who has been asked over the decades to host tyrants such as Presidents Mobutu of Zaire and Ceausescu of Romania is going to take a brash billionaire from New York effortlessly in her stride," William Hague, a former foreign secretary, wrote in The Daily Telegraph.
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Yet tyrants around the world have come to power and stayed, because people did not take the threat seriously and consoled themselves with false assurances — "He can't win," or "It won't happen again" — instead of doing the hard work to be sure it does not happen!
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In a Republican Party built in service of the vinegary whims and furies of America's business tyrants, Trump fits as a sort of aspirational figure—a man who has slipped the surly bonds of basic human kindness to become a rancid celestial body in his own right.
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Related: Donald Trump promised his Reddit AMA would be great — it wasn't Speaking before Clinton on Thursday, Elmets called Trump "a petulant, dangerously unbalanced reality star who will coddle tyrants and alienate allies," and said he plans to vote for a Democrat for the first time in his life.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoTrump's new challenge is officials dishing dirt Tehran's tyrants have been provoked Senators ask State Department to expedite visa for Kurdish commander should he visit US MORE's latest trip to Israel was aimed at assuaging Israeli fears over precisely this problem.
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Rather than take a meaningful stance in favor of the free spread of information, Zuckerberg, as ever before, walks a middle course that serves Facebook's aims—to be a happy place for all people, thus ensuring its user base can grow without provoking the ire of tyrants or censors.
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And if you wind up wanting to make a grand, suicidal gesture as a result of all this, maybe pop back over to Forks and make sure your lady love is actually dead before you go full Romeo and turn to terrifying vampire tyrants to help you kill yourself.
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"Through a policy of strength, the incoming Trump administration should seize the immediate opportunity to communicate with action to Kim Jong Un as well as our allies that the United States remains committed to standing up to tyrants and ensuring peace and stability around the globe," he wrote.
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" "Nobody is saying that Donald Trump is a Nazi," Scarborough said, "nobody is saying that he's Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, but you can see time and time again … this is actually how dictators and tyrants open the door, and they do it by dehumanizing their political opponents.
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" 'Results' like Ali Bongo's are the hallmarks of dictators and tyrants who refuse to give up power — not the cornerstones of democracies, nations, and peoples who respect fairness and the rule of law," Mr. Ping said in his statement, which called on American officials to reject the results.
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It's one more capitulation to Trumpism in a list that now includes the abandoned beliefs that international alliances make us safer, free trade makes us richer, immigration makes us stronger, a free press makes us freer, human rights make us better, and tyrants should be confronted, not coddled.
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With Putin and Donald Trump again exploiting popular insecurities, the Russian Revolution's real lesson must surely be that however unlikely their rise, populist tyrants ultimately succeed when rapid social change, even in times of relative peace and prosperity, alienates the masses enough to rebel against their ruling elites.
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"Habré's life sentence is a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end," said Reed Brody, a lawyer who has doggedly pursued the case since 1999 on behalf of victims.
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A rising drumbeat of short-range missile tests and the suspension of cooperation with US efforts to find the remains of soldiers killed in North Korea nearly 70 years ago are beginning to erode the meager payoff Trump forged with his stunning engagement of one of the world's most brutal tyrants.
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The blood of these great men, representatives of a greater truth, would fall into the bricks of history, mixing with the grouts of time and forming the philosophical and moral foundation of civilization that keeps the wall of human society from collapsing at the slightest shove from fat old wannabe tyrants.
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" The modern use of faggot is understood as an explicit slur against gay people, but in Thorin's mind, "tyrants who try to tell you a word only has the meaning they decided, even if they're making it up on the spot or ignoring cultural context and history, can still fuck off.
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Stories about rebellion and taking down tyrants are of course great — I will throw down for The Hunger Games — but they serve a different emotional purpose than the kind of quiet, stark stories about regular people trying to live their lives under dystopian governments that Vox initially appeared to be.
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"We will take back our country from the military coup, and that day, we will go to the tomb of Muhammed Mursi and pray to thank him for staying in prison for six years to free our country of tyrants," said Mumin Ashraf, 25, an Egyptian man studying in Ankara.
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Hubbard acknowledges that much of what M.B.S. has done for his country and its people, especially its young people, has been as admirable as it is overdue, but in this age of incipient tyrants he also understands that authoritarian rulers can be tremendously popular even when they are terribly feared.
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The Constitution itself was understood by its framers as a machine, a precisely constructed instrument whose measures — its separation of powers, its checks and balances — were mechanical devices, as intricate as the gears of a clock, designed to thwart tyrants, mobs and demagogues, and to prevent the forming of factions.
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Yet posterity might score him higher on a broader metric had he been as effective in the more intimate persuasions of Congress, as consistent in projecting empathy as at exhortation, or more resolute abroad; had he been as adept at championing legislation or facing down tyrants as he could be at stirring hearts.
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"If the tyrants close the door of migration in your faces, then open the door of jihad in theirs and turn their actions against them," said an audio clip purportedly from spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, referring to Western governments' efforts to keep foreign fighters from traveling to the join the group.
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"It infuriates me when our president bans criticism of our enemies, and I am certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemies by their proper names: radical jihadis, failed tyrants, and so forth," he wrote in an op-ed in the New York Post Saturday.
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Above all, he will hear the stirring French national anthem, "La Marseillaise," quite a lot, and should pay special attention to the words, which include among many others (in English translation so they might sink in): Tremble, tyrants and traitors The shame of all good men.... Against you we are all soldiers.
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Or even a clarion speech from a Republican leader who hasn't yet lost a sense of honor and duty, and who can explain that a president who cavalierly invites foreign tyrants to investigate his political opponents debases his office and sets a precedent that all Americans, liberals and conservatives alike, will bitterly rue.
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The good news is, there is a lawyer who is going to take my case, and just like Gavin McInnes, I plan on suing all of the Left wing terrorists and tech tyrants who are trying to shut me down simply because I am a Conservative Jewish woman who speaks truth about Islam.
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Baghdadi also makes reference to cities ISIS has lost or is in the process of losing, saying he's "certain that bloodshed in Mosul, Raqqa, Sirt, Ramadi and Hama will eventually lead to the downfall of tyrants," according to a translation from Hassan Hassan, senior fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.
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We are less attracted to the idea of the wealthy Aristocratic philosopher sequestered in his research facility and making occasional overseas trips to visit foreign tyrants than the image of the poor, shoeless Socrates causing trouble in the marketplace, refusing to be paid and getting killed by the city for his trouble.
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He came out of retirement in June to head the U.S. Embassy in Kiev under the Trump administration at Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoTrump's new challenge is officials dishing dirt Tehran's tyrants have been provoked Senators ask State Department to expedite visa for Kurdish commander should he visit US MORE's request.
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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin must know that when he talked about how, "the roots of the Tree of Liberty are watered by the blood of tyrants and patriots," like he did in a speech back in September that those comments would be depicted and framed in the worst way possible in the papers an online.
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His deference to another infamously bloodthirsty dictator, Adolf Hitler, gave Hitler the green light to annex large portions of Central Europe, ushering in World War II. Chamberlain's experience with Hitler should serve as a warning to Trump: Playing into the hands of ruthless, ideologically rigid tyrants – whether Hitler or Kim – will not end well.
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Al-Baghdadi tells followers he's 'certain that bloodshed in Mosul, Raqqa, Sirt, Ramadi and Hama will eventually lead to the downfall of tyrants' He also says that Russia has capitalized "on [America's] weakness to … replace it" by taking "the reins" of the war in Syria, according to Rita Katz, director of SITE Intelligence Group.
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The story of Rome's fall is both complicated and relatively straightforward: The state became too big and chaotic; the influence of money and private interests corrupted public institutions; and social and economic inequalities became so large that citizens lost faith in the system altogether and gradually fell into the arms of tyrants and demagogues.
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"In my current job, I feel that my views, through [Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoTrump's new challenge is officials dishing dirt Tehran's tyrants have been provoked Senators ask State Department to expedite visa for Kurdish commander should he visit US MORE], have been brought repeatedly and frequently and, I think in many cases, effectively," he said.
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H.) wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoTrump's new challenge is officials dishing dirt Tehran's tyrants have been provoked Senators ask State Department to expedite visa for Kurdish commander should he visit US MORE urging him to expedite a visa for General Mazloum Kobani Abdi should he choose to travel to Washington.
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"Through a policy of strength, the incoming Trump administration should seize the immediate opportunity to communicate with action to Kim Jong Un as well as our allies that the United States remains committed to standing up to tyrants and ensuring peace and stability around the globe," Gardner wrote in an op-ed published by CNN on Monday.
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Our actions, including Trump's illegal missile attack against Syria escalating our CIA-led regime change war in Syria, have eroded U.S. credibility and sent a foolish, short-sighted message to Kim Jong Un and other tyrants: The only way for North Korea to deter an American attack is to tighten their grip on their nuclear weapons.
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A restive, intense, Harvard-educated newspaperman with bulldog tenacity, Mr. Schanberg was a nearly ideal foreign correspondent: a risk-taking adventurer who distrusted officials, relied on himself in a war zone and wrote vividly of political and military tyrants and of the suffering and death of their victims with the passion of an eyewitness to history.
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"Tyrants Destroyed," a satisfyingly ferocious short story by Vladimir Nabokov, ("the growth and power of his fame was matched, in my imagination, by the degree of the punishment I would have liked to inflict on him"); Philip Roth, "The Plot Against America"; Nathanael West, "A Cool Million," since Shagpoke Whipple has surely come amongst us again.
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One need not love the use of ordnance to appreciate that with the unprecedented moves of hitting a Syrian air base with cruise missiles and dropping a MOAB to obliterate an ISIS nest in Afghanistan, he has sent an important message, in terms that predatory tyrants, from Moscow to Beijing to Tehran to Pyongyang, will understand.
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoTrump's new challenge is officials dishing dirt Tehran's tyrants have been provoked Senators ask State Department to expedite visa for Kurdish commander should he visit US MORE in late September for documents related to the administration's dealings with Ukraine, though he has refused to comply with the demand.
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The poem "49" begins: We live in toppled times under a feat of tyranny; let's not fake getting lost, let's do it, let's not do it intermittently, let's be lost, disoriented and never to be bound so all can hear the hiss of the adverbs we shoot into tyrants' eyes, quivering shafts slippery from limbs and aimed by eyes under feathered lids.
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It still stands that religion — and I say religion in general this time because while Islam is especially dangerous today, the other Abrahamic religions have served the same purpose when they were — lends itself extremely well to the goals and whims of authoritarians, tyrants, and the violent everywhere, whether it's being used as a prop or driving them by belief.
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ELI LAKE, COLUMNIST, "BLOOMBERG VIEW": Call me old-fashioned but I like to believe America is a beacon of democracy and freedom and that when the American elected president meets with tyrants like Kim Jong Un, there should be at the very least refrain not to go out of his way to basically lie about the nature of this person.
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After accepting a humiliating treaty imposed by the Germans, Russia was soon embroiled in a civil war more bloody and brutal than even World War I. By its end, the Bolshevik government, launched as a workers' democracy, was effectively a dictatorship, enabling the ascendancy of a previously obscure Bolshevik, Joseph Stalin, who would become one of the great tyrants of history.
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Yet an emerging difficulty was that, when not working on Republican campaigns, Mr Manafort and public relations firms he has been associated with worked for a lot of unsavoury foreigners—including an impressive roster of African tyrants and kleptocrats, such as Siad Barre of Somalia and Mobutu Sese Seko of Congo, and, latterly, the pro-Russia political party of the former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukyovych.
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In May, Andrew Sullivan summoned the teachings of Plato in a fascinating piece for New York magazine about how tyrants rise in "late-stage democracy": He is usually of the elite but has a nature in tune with the time — given over to random pleasures and whims, feasting on plenty of food and sex, and reveling in the nonjudgment that is democracy's civil religion.
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Republicans need to wrestle with more fundamental questions first: Will their party choose as its leaders people who respect democratic institutions and traditions, or not; who conceive of America as a welcoming society or as one that is racially and religiously closed; who are committed to helping or exploiting the weak and vulnerable; who admire or oppose tyrants; who respect truth or view it in purely utilitarian ways; who abhor ignorance or embrace it?
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But one of the things that's been very striking to me is that as I've talked to my colleagues around the globe, you know, working in different countries, particularly working in countries where a free press is already a tenuous thing, they say that they are increasingly of the belief that your rhetoric is creating a climate in which dictators and tyrants are able to employ your words in suppressing a free press.
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Amazon has been teasing this idea since 2013, and it still has a long way to go in terms of both legality and practicality here in the US. But again, it's not hard to imagine a dystopian on-demand future where instead of going to your local corner bodega/store, you shout for emergency cat food into your Echo and it uses Amazon Now to call an Amazon Prime Air drone over to your house with a can for the little tyrants.
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To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
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To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
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The measure calls for President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchedule for additional depositions in impeachment inquiry revealed Sondland attorney disputes key portions of Taylor testimony: report Impeachment inquiry might be public by mid-November: report MORE and Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoTrump's new challenge is officials dishing dirt Tehran's tyrants have been provoked Senators ask State Department to expedite visa for Kurdish commander should he visit US MORE to up pressure on the Russian government to ensure a transparent judicial process is provided.
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According to the bullhorns and depending on the year, America's military campaigns abroad would satisfy justice, displace tyrants, keep violence away from Western soil, spread democracy, foster development, prevent sectarian war, protect populations, reduce corruption, bolster women's rights, decrease the international heroin trade, check the influence of extreme religious ideology, create Iraqi and Afghan security forces that would be law-abiding and competent and finally build nations that might peacefully stand on their own in a global world, all while discouraging other would-be despots and terrorists.
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