But no one is as passionate about baking as Nadir Gullu, the self-proclaimed "dessert despot".
It was risky: Kim Jong-il, North Korea's reclusive despot, is nothing if not unpredictable.
Some speak nostalgically of the days of Siad Barre, the despot toppled in 1991.
Once again, American consumers could find themselves at the mercy of an oil-rich despot.
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It is especially worrisome that the Russian despot wants a say in how EADS is run.
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Saddam Hussein is a secular despot - an appalling dictator who really is very bad.
No monarch or despot could make better decisions for them than they could make for themselves.
After all, what raises harder moral questions than the sale of weapons to a despot?
Can Muqtada cut our foreign debt, asks one, crestfallen to see his fellow Iraqis embracing another despot.
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The latest outside intervention came in 2004 with the ousting of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, an elected president turned despot.
The fall of the Libyan despot will only strengthen the perception that leaders are helpless at this moment.
Many leaders on the continent are hardly paragons of democracy themselves, and so would never condemn a fellow despot.
Clinton seemed to suggest that the Damascus despot was on the right track.
Last I checked, a madman despot is holding oil prices hostage (not to mention hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians).
Like many another despot, Mr Milosevic probably prefers to preside over a heap of rubble than not to preside at all.
So also in matters of royal style: Alexander mixed his purple with plain white cloth, avoiding the temptation to go whole-hog despot.
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In the first episode, at least, he's a fairly benign despot, insisting only that they buy his personal choice in bed linen.
Of course, the former Iraqi despot and the one-time American president lived very different lives and, appropriately, came to very different ends.
Toadying to the Syrian version of Saddam Hussein, Hafez Assad a far smarter and more dangerous actor than the Iraqi despot.
They were at the whim of a maniacal despot whose death would have seen two even more maniacal sons vie for power.
Much depends on whether Iraq's despot values his own survival above his legacy, and what sort of legacy he wants to leave.
According to Leone, the Iraqi despot had more than one nuclear program.
The New York Times depicted the judge as an arrogant despot, intent on punishing youthful ideals he was too bigoted to understand.
Toadying to the Syrian version of Saddam Hussein, Hafez Assad -- a far smarter and more dangerous actor than the Iraqi despot.
Iraq is now just 18 months free of its despot, and on the verge of holding the first free elections in Iraqi history.
That a 30-year despot was toppled by people-power is without doubt a good outcome story for those with broadly democratic and civil-liberties biases.
And Easley slammed Ballantine for a record on education that the governor likened to former Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein's record on human rights.
The scenes are a box office delight and do a lot to humanize a guy whom many see as some all-powerful business despot.
One despot engaged in a frontal assault on democracy is curiously absent from this list, however -- the rapacious Serbian communist Slobodan Milosevic.
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