The federal and state authorities became offsetting buttresses repelling any despotic aspirations the other might exhibit.
Economic sanctions serve only to impoverish citizens of sanctioned countries while empowering their (usually despotic) regimes.
But Mr Aristide became increasingly despotic, relying on thuggish gangs to enforce his rule.
They are not the despotic 'reactionaries' Eduard Shevardnadze warned against when he resigned as Foreign Minister.
Craig Murray does not believe that open criticism of regimes would hamper delicate negotiations with despotic governments.
The question I want to raise today is what distinguishes this Congress from the legislators of despotic countries.
New rules will restrict random visits by inspectors from the despotic health, fire, labour, trade and similar agencies.
This makes Morocco an easy target for its detractors who say the system is not democratic but despotic.
They are as anxious to dispatch the despotic mullahs who repress them, and threaten us, as we are.
Washington publicly says that accepting Myanmar gives the junta the legitimacy to continue (or even worsen) its despotic ways.
And it has had a particularly corrupt and despotic dynasty of local rulers.
Thus, the OAS interfered in the internal affairs of Honduras in favor of a president with a despotic project.
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Amnesty, amazingly, takes only 1, 351 words to describe the most brutal and despotic regime on the face of the earth.
There must be a huge movement in Venezuela coordinated with the political elements within the opposition to abort Chavez' despotic project.
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There is a track record of this in third world economies with despotic leaders who have authoritarian control over their central banks.
In many cases the behavior of ICT companies has assisted despotic governments in identifying, capturing, imprisoning, torturing, and often killing their adversaries.
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The bottom line: despotic practices that crush the human spirit are doomed.
"I think this regime at this moment is more despotic, " Milani said.
Grim, impregnable, and despotic, it seemed as though it would last forever.
They have long supported the MDC in the hope that it would eventually kick the ever-more-despotic Mr Mugabe out at the polls.
The problem, they say, is that the rules of the game, dictated by the whimsical and despotic president, Alexander Lukashenka, keep changing.
Like the giant ancient Buddhas destroyed a few months ago by Afghanistan's despotic Taliban, the World Trade Center can never really be rebuilt.
If we were to rule it out now Saddam Hussein will carry on in his despotic way for the rest of his time.
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Hyundai is likewise active in Iran, where the company and its subsidiaries are increasing their ties to the country and its despotic regime.
There is also abundant evidence of North Korean involvement in the shipment of ballistic missiles and other weaponry to despotic nations around the world.
Says Dorji: "Koirala made it clear he has tried since the 1950s to depose the 'despotic regime of the King of Bhutan, '" he says.
In the past ten years or so, America has put little or no pressure on the dos Santos regime to become less crooked or despotic.
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The despotic government attacks anyone no longer willing to put up with corruption, economic misery and a shameful disregard of the law and human rights.
Premier, another British independent, has forged ahead with investments in Myanmar, where big American firms are reluctant to invest because of the country's despotic regime.
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