The quiet household is often more turbulent than the household of the tyrant or the drunkard.
But there are lingering memories of General Manuel Noriega, the tyrant ousted in 1989 by an American invasion.
There are some Venezuelans who like to recall a kinder, if ridiculous, Perez Jimenez, rather than the tyrant.
It turns out Richard III was not the tyrant as he is remembered, but perhaps just the victim of identity fraud.
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Some paleontologists had reasoned that the tyrant lizard hit speeds of 45 miles per hour, but Hutchinson says it only managed 10 to 25 miles per hour.
Zenobia and her husband, Radamisto, remain steadfast under threat of death and destruction, however, and when Tiridate's ally Tigrane finally turns against him, for his own good, the tyrant sees the error of his ways.
The first meager fossils were found in Montana by dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown, who shipped them back to the American Museum of Natural History, where the new species was promptly dubbed Tyrannosaurus rex--"king of the tyrant lizards"--by museum president Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Ordinary Nigerians, fed up with being robbed and bullied by their leaders, would probably like to see harsh punishments for the old regime, but Mr Obasanjo, a former political prisoner himself (he served three years of a 15-year sentence for allegedly plotting a coup against Abacha before the tyrant's death set him free), is inclined to be gentle.
'Saddam Hussein's trial is a milestone in the Iraqi people's efforts to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law.
The title of the novel comes from an old proverb, "Truth is the daughter of time", and the book directly challenges the received idea that Richard was a tyrant who murdered the Princes in the Tower.
One can only speculate about the loss of Steve Jobs, the genius-tyrant whose thumbprint has been on almost every brilliant and elegant product to ever come out of Apple.
Abby finds her homeland in the grip of an evil tyrant, her aunt Belladora, who is holding her father, the true king, prisoner.
Over 2, 000 years ago, a tyrant forbade the Israelites from practicing their religion and his forces desecrated the Holy Temple.
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He had signed up to direct the pilot episode of Tyrant in March, just weeks after Life of Pi won four Oscars.
Or that the chaos surrounding the potential overthrow of a Middle Eastern tyrant could turn out to be a messy bit of business that roils the oil market?
Industry paper The Hollywood Reporter suggested that Wrath of the Titans director Liebesman was implicit in persuading Fox - who once labelled Bay a "tyrant" - to take the role.
Oscar-winning film director Ang Lee is branching out into television, after it was announced he will direct the pilot episode of new series, Tyrant.
Tyrant follows an ordinary American family caught up in the affairs of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.
The libretto, an 18th- century "education-of-a-tyrant" plot, features Tiridate, king of Thrace, who is obsessed with his sister-in-law, Zenobia, and wages indiscriminate war to get her.
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