Their leader, Massoud Rajavi, has strange ideas about the cult of personality (his own).
Detractors regard this cult of personality as a poor surrogate for careful planning and execution.
His 2008 campaign of Hope and Change was vacuous in content, but big on cult of personality.
But the cult of personality and connecting with everyday voters will only carry a candidate so far.
It is a first glimpse of the extraordinary cult of personality built around Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il.
As the cult of personality grew, investors seemed so captivated by Mr Silverman's reputation that they forgot his record.
As I get a lay of the land in the air, and the territory is familiar: A cult of personality.
Steve Jobs was a private person, but his insistence on privacy only fueled the cult of personality that surrounded him.
The growing American infatuation with Barack Obama had to pop eventually and this week, the cult of personality finally got punctured.
His cult of personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance.
The opposition claim that efforts to change the constitution are further evidence of a cult of personality at the centre of Venezuelan politics.
Although there is a stronger institutional feel to the hedge-fund business today, that is not to say the cult of personality has disappeared.
Kim Il-sung founded the nation of North Korea in 1948 on policy of self-reliance, and built a cult of personality around him and his son.
The former Tory chancellor is top at promoting "the cult of personality", says d'Ancona, adding that Clarke is "the man who puts the 'mess' in 'messianic'".
Exercising carefully calculated control of the media and operating ruthlessly behind the scenes, Mr. Milosevic established a cult of personality that struck fear into non-Serbs in Yugoslavia.
Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves (Free Press, 2004).
Life in North Korea is utterly dominated by the cult of personality surrounding its late President Kim Il-sung, known as the Great Leader, and his son, Kim Jong-il, the Dear Leader.
With the cult of personality culture that has become so pervasive in our country, the population increasingly expects glamour excitement and drama in almost every aspect of the political process today.
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Mr Aliev's fondness for opulence, his strongman moustache, and the cult of personality he has built around his father, Heidar, from whom he inherited his post in 2003, are all suitably retro.
No less controversially, the PMOI is widely reviled by human-rights groups for nurturing a messianic cult of personality around Mr Rajavi and his wife, Maryam, and for enforcing a totalitarian discipline on its adherents.
Mr Berdymukhamedov's predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov, who died in late 2006, built a cult of personality in the country and was responsible for a number of maverick policies, including banning opera and renaming the months.
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Kim Jong Il, who died Saturday at the age of 69, was the last leader of a Stalinist state held together by a Stalin-like cult of personality, brutal repression and disposition of rents to supporters.
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Last but perhaps most telling, the election campaign turned into a gigantic exercise of building Putin up as a nearly mythical savior-of-the-nation icon of the type known as "cult of personality" in the Stalinist era.
In particular, it must amount to more than another spasm of American enthusiasm for the Kremlin-leader-du jour, the sort of "cult of personality" to which a succession of previous U.S. presidents have succumbed in the past.
But this is as much a consequence of the cult of personality that the media has created around him as it is a result of the double standard applied to powerful men and less powerful women caught in flagrante delicto.
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And I think there's been a little too much of this cult of personality recently in our politics because the Conservative Party will ultimately be judged by the electorate, not by how we look or the age of our members.
Best known for the 1988 MTV hit "Cult of Personality" and for making African-Americans more visible in mainstream rock music Living Colour visited WNYC a few days before releasing The Chair in the Doorway, its first album in six years.
The portrait of Kim Jong Eun that emerges in his U.S. profile is that of a young man who, despite years of education in the West, is steeped in his father's cult of personality and may be even more mercurial and merciless, officials said.
In a recent adweek.com article, Wolff the online media entrepreneur, founder of newser.com, and regular Vanity Fair contributor argues that NewsCorp is actually structured like a Mafia entity, a disorganized and chaotic company disguised by a professional veneer, and dedicated to the cult of personality surrounding its charismatic leader, Rupert Murdoch.
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How does it avoid the trap of the personality cult, bane of most parties?
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