One is his insight that despotism has no dates, but can be ancient or modern, monarchical or democratic.
Each is a passionate, somewhat paranoid, monarchical boss of a kingdom he controls.
Deal-making is the centrepiece of the way he runs government, which, under Mr Mandela's increasingly monarchical eye, he already does.
Its final comparison of monarchical legs suggests, unsettlingly, that the wheel had come full circle and the struggles had been futile.
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But the Gulf rulers depend on the American shield not only for the security of their statelets but also for the security of their own monarchical families.
Content is still king, but distribution is no longer monarchical.
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It seemed, right from its inception, that blogging created a new kind of force, a desire to follow and a willingness to let the genre be, in a sense, monarchical.
The mistrust between them is as deep as ever and, in a centrally run, almost monarchical state, fed directly at the top by billions of petro-dollars, coalitions count for little.
From his vantage-point, Mr Colombani delivers a convincing argument for a new style of presidency which moves away from the monarchical model established by De Gaulle to a more democratic kind.
If Nixon was dangerously imperial, was JFK positively monarchical?
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The story of Belgium's monarchical colonists in the Congo is a gruesome tale of inhumanity (the bit about children's hands being amputated to punish their parents for slow work is not easily forgotten).
Training, already ingeniously split between plain in Turin and vocational in Salonika, could no doubt be subdivided further: practical (Germany?), emotional (Poland?), theological (for Geneva, when one day even the Swiss come in), monarchical (Bulgaria) and so on.
In the mid-1970s, as part of his offensive to solidify his position as successor, Kim engineered an extensive propaganda campaign aimed at elevating his father to the status of deity while simultaneously justifying a blatantly anti-Marxist monarchical form of power transferal.
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