Many dictators promote property rights and a reliable legal system out of simple pragmatism.
Ludwig von Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has been co-opted by everyone from dictators to revolutionaries.
Of the big European countries, Angela Merkel's Germany has been the firmest advocate of ostracising dictators.
It may be necessary for unfortunate countries to promise former dictators safety at home.
They include kings, queens and dictators and extremely wealthy shareholders whom we call Coupon Clippers (see page 220).
Kings, popes, dictators and captains of industry made better patrons than democratic societies.
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When seizing power, most Latin American dictators have expected to remain for life.
Franco, like many dictators, valued the trappings of respectability provided by the arts.
Over the years, Panama has given refuge to a long line of ex-dictators.
Anne and Charles flew here and there, setting new records, charting new air-routes and being feted by royals and dictators.
At first, when Superman and Wonder Woman were merely disposing despots and dictators, global morale appeared to be well and good.
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Many African dictators saw in Mr Meles another feature bolstering their own positions: a proof of the need for top-down government.
This is by far the largest sum frozen by the Swiss in cases involving former dictators accused of enriching themselves at their countries' expense.
After all, dictators in the Middle East are no strangers at strategically using their greatest PR tool, their wives.
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Those who warned that America's enemies might have gain power when the dictators fell, will use this to suggest they were correct.
New Hampshires judicial dictators didnt even have the excuse of a crisis.
After all, the Arab dictators it faced were equally unflinching -- in their rhetoric, at least, even if their actions often failed to match.
But even under Mr Cook the Foreign Office is not in the business of trawling the world for former dictators to put on trial.
Data dictators should start by articulating the theory of their business.
The Cold War was over, but in two successive military campaigns during the 1990s, air power had done the heavy lifting required to defeat aggressive dictators.
Even if Mr. Paulson were to figure out the link between the weak dollar and oil dictators around the world, a greenback reversal would take time.
In a speech at West Point, he argued that the cold-war doctrines of containment and deterrence could not work against terrorists or dictators with nuclear bombs.
But, whereas some Arabs saw a sinister design in this sudden championing of democratisation, others found it a promising change from America's previous coddling of friendly dictators.
Other Europeans, for their part, assured Mrs Albright that they shared American worries about ballistic missiles and chemical or biological weapons in the hands of dictators or terrorists.
The aim of the Bribery Act was to make sure that British companies were not throwing millions of dollars at officials and dictators elsewhere in order to gain business.
Fascist dictators had seized power by manipulating representative institutions.
As an advocate of new drama and an opponent of censorship, Tynan ought to be remembered as one of the more benevolent dictators of English cultural taste after the second world war.
The classical Olympics were always run by a board of nine from the local town (Elis), so there were no international spats, no corruption scandals, no hijacking of the games to whitewash dictators.
It involves scam artists - often masquerading as corrupt officials or sons and daughters of dead dictators - offering people via e-mail or faxes shares in hidden fortunes in exchange for simple administrative assistance.
The Sloan Management Review posted last week a great interview with Jeanne Ross, Director of the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), where she explains why companies need data dictators.
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