Word: despotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China, which abstained from Friday's vote. "The U.S. wants to keep sanctions in the belief that they're essential to overthrowing Saddam," says Dowell. "But the French believe sanctions are destroying the fabric of Iraqi society, which could mean that after Saddam there'll either be another despot or else Iraq will break up into an endless civil war situation, like Lebanon...
...responsible for dictating and overseeing the framework under which it handed over power in 1988. Sharif himself was handpicked by the military and installed in power not once, but twice through manipulated elections. Tutored by his military mentors, it is but natural that Sharif behaved more like a civilian despot than an elected prime minister, riding roughshod over his political opposition and demolishing every government institution that stood...
...thinks of giants from the giant's point of view, but it's not easy being big. One is aware of the menace one poses as he stomps about. Dad wants to be a benevolent despot, but he has all that heft, and sometimes he crashes into the china. "Pop! Pop!" cries Keye Luke, the No. 1 son in the Charlie Chan movies. His incompetence is funny, but he is really desperate to please the All-Wise, All-Wisecracking round Titan in the white suit, who is sometimes the detective and sometimes the crime...
...right now being nationalists who reject the Kosovo peace deal, it may not even be in the West?s immediate interest to make Milosevic?s ouster a short-term priority. After all, in the long run he?s probably damned himself to a nasty end, whether as a besieged despot, a fugitive, in a war crimes court or worse. The truth, of course, is that there are no real winners in this messy Balkan conflict, only plenty of losers: The Kosovar Albanian civilians who have been terrorized, tortured, r aped, murdered and driven from their homes, and for whom...
Jackson contends that seeing the potential for redemption even in a despot is a preacher's duty. His one-on-one chat with Milosevic must have sounded like a pastoral counseling session. "You're angry, perhaps hurt, recycling your pain," Jackson says he told the Serbian leader, adding, "Champions have to play through their pain. You have to see the power of a diplomatic bridge, not a bloody war." He insists that he stressed that Milosevic must withdraw his forces from Kosovo and agree to an international peacekeeping force and repatriation of refugees, as NATO demands...