• Even tinpot bureaucracies, such as the Videogram Regulatory Board, are run by ex-top brass.

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  • Already, the broad population is profoundly embittered with the corrupt tinpot despotism.

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  • The United States expends its diplomatic energies in negotiations over the regime's tinpot nuclear and missile programme, with little to show for the effort.

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  • And although there were some who denounced him as a "tinpot dictator", General Musharraf's stock overseas has soared since the 11 September attacks on America.

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  • Better to be a tinpot democracy than a tinpot dictatorship.

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  • As they watch the punishment being meted out to Serbia, many a tinpot dictator will be wondering whether the secret acquisition of ballistic missiles, tipped with chemicals, germs or even nuclear weapons, would not be the best way to avoid a similar fate.

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