What is the name of the tyrant?

Iran s 1979 revolution did away with the pro American, undemocratic regime of the Shah, bringing in its place the anti American, undemocratic regime of the clerics.

and from the ranges of the sky... he shall destroy this tyrant with the arrow of justice.

and from the ranges of the sky... he shall destroy this tyrant with the arrow of justice.

Yes, Iraq is better off without this absolute despot.

Okay, bullyboy, now you won the war. Let's dance, huh? Yeah, we'll dance.

So, in 1799, he is the First Consul, and is essentially the dictator, or the authoritarian ruler of France.

An enlightened autocrat can be just as protective of minority rights as a solidly democratic government.

His most precious resource is his personal popularity, which a flavor of consent to his authoritarian regime.

The dictatorship stands accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, mostly against the country s minorities, who chafe at decades of oppression, ostracism, and military misrule.

The rest of the world must not turn a blind eye to authoritarian backsliding.

Maybe we should live with this kind of authoritarian situation that we find ourselves in, instead of having the second scenario.

Cold, tyrannical husband is supposed to miss his loving little wife and beg her to come back to their million dollar cottage.

That policy achieved almost nothing, save for bolstering the country s authoritarian leader, President Aleksander Lukashenko.

And the people thought for themselves, Maybe we should live with this kind of authoritarian situation that we find ourselves in, instead of having the second scenario.

The political system has become a peculiar hybrid of authoritarian remnants and newly established mechanisms for transparency.

And it definitely can't work if the authoritarian leader you're facing is not incompetent, it's somebody who's really brutal and ruthless.

It remains dominant today, as all efforts to establish an alternative, even totalitarianism, failed.

Authoritarian, crude, and somewhat megalomaniacal (almost as though he were a king himself), Thaksin was a Thai version of Silvio Berlusconi.

The government s heavy handed behavior reinvigorated the homegrown Kifaya (Enough) movement, which has demanded an end to the Mubarak regime.

Does this mean that the US will ignore the authoritarian ruling issues that were the main point of conflict with the Bush admin.?

Franco s son in law, who was also the family doctor, kept the dying despot on life support machines for more than a month.

Everyone. If you're against Mubarak please don't take it out on a dead 13 year old boy. This makes you worse than a tyrant.

The objective of the Adventure Mode is to win all the races of the five different worlds and win the freedom of the playable characters from the tyrannical Emperor Velo XXVII.

The same is true of some prime ministers, like Thailand's authoritarian Thaksin Shinawatra, who now stands accused of weakening his country's democratic traditions in favor of personal rule.

Even Russian President Vladimir Putin, the autocratic leader of a crumbling second rate power, manages to put on a good show compared to America s tarnished president.

This has increased demands for social and political rights and greater economic opportunity, placing authoritarian rule under growing strain.

The protesters are holding Tunisian flags or signs bearing various symbols and slogans rejecting Ben Ali and the authoritarianism he represented in his late years.

Just as Putin has created a managed democracy, Russians can now look forward to a managed Kremlin marriage one that will attempt to flatter and sweeten their kitschy authoritarian leader in his dotage.

In Côte d Ivoire, for example, former President Laurent Gbagbo takes inspiration from Zimbabwe s autocratic President Robert Mugabe, clinging to power after his clear defeat in the last presidential elections.

He remembered the impoverished backwater that Singapore was in the 1920 s, and now he saw the gleaming city that free enterprise together with Lee Kwan Yew s quasi authoritarian leadership had wrought.

The situation is even worse in Syria, where the bloodiest of the Arab revolutions has already claimed more than 75,000 lives, owing mainly to the behavior of President Bashar al Assad s tyrannical regime.

We can countenance no further delay in finding a solution to the desperation of peoples who see the gap growing ever wider between the affluent and developed societies and that other world, that of the majority, of impoverished and underdeveloped societies.

Mir Hussein Moussavi, the main challenger of Ahmadinejad said the results from untrustworthy monitors reflect the weakening of the pillars that constitute the sacred system of Iran and the rule of authoritarianism and tyranny.

In Guinea, despite 24 previous years of authoritarian military rule, the population largely supported the December 2008 bloodless coup staged by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara s immediately following President Lansana Conté s death.

His sectarian, authoritarian behavior polarized his country to such a degree that even the army s chief, General Abdul Fattah al Sisi, known for his Islamist sympathies, withdrew his support from the man who had appointed him.

Getting stuck in transition usually kills the momentum for democratic change, and widespread corruption, weak state institutions, and lack of security serve to reinforce a myth of the just autocrat. Vladimir Putin s rule in Russia illustrates this outcome.

NEW YORK Many factors underlay the ongoing upheavals in the Middle East decades of corrupt and authoritarian rule, increasingly literate and digitally connected societies, and skyrocketing world food prices.

The protesters are holding Tunisian flags or signs bearing various symbols and slogans rejecting Ben Ali and the authoritarianism he represented in his late years. Here, too, I cannot find a single reference to Allah, Islam, or the ummah (community of believers).

In doing so, the US embarked on a preposterous grand strategy that aimed no less at simultaneously dismantling Iraq s tyrannical regime, restructuring the entire Middle East, destroying al Qaeda, and helping democracy to take root throughout the Arab world.

In addition, many liberals, notably in Saudi Arabia, offer to work with the current regimes against the radical Islamist revolutionaries an understandable response, but one that strengthens the authoritarian status quo.

The European Parliament has consistently denounced Belarus as Europe s last dictatorship, yet EU member governments continue business as usual with Aleksander Lukashenka, the country s wayward and near lunatic despot.

Today s turmoil, however, is no longer driven by anger at foreign forces instead, it marks a second phase of the de colonization process the assertion of the right of self determination by peoples and tribes united only by a dictator s yoke.

Obama s praise of Egypt s Hosni Mubarak as a man with whom one could do business demoralized Egyptian opposition groups, which have been struggling against the long serving autocrat and his efforts to ensure that his son, Gamal Mubarak, succeeds him.

That policy achieved almost nothing, save for bolstering the country s authoritarian leader, President Aleksander Lukashenko. Belatedly and somewhat reluctantly, EU leaders have now accepted that they need to deal pragmatically with Lukashenko if they want to promote reform in Belarus and shift the country from its tight orbit around Russia.