Mr Annan is as much troubled by atrocities carried out by tyrants at home as abroad.
Too often since the early 1960s, judges have acted like philosopher-kings or tyrants, depending on your political point of view.
The militarist, even imperial avocation of an Alexander Hamilton or a Theodore Roosevelt is countered by the Jeffersonian wariness of war as the sport of tyrants.
Ixil Mayas, she said, can teach other oppressed groups around the world to stand by their rights and not to rest until tyrants are punished by law.
Mr Blair believes, as does this newspaper, that on balance it is worth fighting a war to rid the world of one of its most dangerous tyrants.
Of course, power doesn't turn everyone into ruthless, immoral tyrants.
Within the next hour, tiny pewees and hefty puffbirds, insect-eating tyrants and egg-snatching toucans had paraded in front of my cabin, each newcomer more brightly feathered than the last.
The picture that emerges of her in the troubled 1930s and 1940s is of a divided personality, loyal to her husband's country but disturbed by a Europe run by tyrants.
The boards of such firms should ask themselves whether their bosses are stars like Mr Goizueta, or tyrants like Armand Hammer, who ruled Occidental Petroleum as his fief into his 90s.
Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Bridas sued the California oil giant for stealing its idea. (Bridas lost.) Unocal mixed it up with tyrants, too, flying a delegation of Taliban officials to its engineering headquarters in Houston, with a side trip to the NASA Space Center.
Can I ask you about the International Criminal Court point - again that I was talking with Liam Fox about - because Labour was a great supporter of all of that, the idea of international justice and drag the tyrants to court and convict them.
Not just the tycoons of that trade, but its induced economy, even on some entire societies in parts of the world where the whole national economy rested upon black oily hydrocarbons oozing out of the ground and where, in some cases, people had just finished ousting tyrants who had been monoplizing this resource.
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