Sentences with word «tinpot»

So it would be the prime minister himself, like some sort of tinpot dictator.

It then entered a more stable but still highly volatile period where it seemed to track the statements made by ministers like David Davis - as if Britain were some sort of tinpot dictatorship where huge economic changes could be discerned by the comments of senior generals.

A rape, revenge and road movie (in that order) about a distressed young girl (Georgia Groome) helped by a prostitute (Lorraine Stanley — stunning) to flee a gang of tinpot hoods, it's a film where no shot, line and character is wasted.

The other huge disadvantage is to our users — for every single tinpot e-publication, they have to learn a new method of access and searching; they have to know intuitively where to go to find the resource they need, and then they need to navigate pages of different bumpf each time.

No more privacy, civil liberties dead and tinpot dictators using the enormous power of a gun and a badge to fulfill their fantasies of omnipotence as the stuff their bellies with donuts.

Many reporters seemed to share the prejudices of Mencken, who ridiculed Bryan in print as «a tinpot pope in the coca - cola belt.»

One note about calling the tinpot dictator of NK names: if you can't call a homicidal maniac that starves most of his citizens, engages in human trafficking, tortures and kills American students, etc names, who can you call names?

Wenger who had been a God, morphed, under the temptation of huge salary assurances and supreme power gifted to him by an owner and a board without honour and crucially, any understanding of modern football, into a tinpot dictator, ageing and descending into early onset dementia, rather like Robert Mugabe.

bet he wouldn't get a third of that rethat much in the pl He's coming from a tinpot league as far cavani goes manu wants him so does juve / athelitco madrid so these clubs must be stupid to go after him this is the kind of the mentality why we will never win big

we may be in the championship right now but we do nt need a tinpot club like leicester trying to poach our talent on the cheap.

British and American commentators — most of them on the right, some on the left — have taken to the airwaves to libel Hugo Chavez as just another tinpot dictator, hated by his own people, a tyrant who imprisoned judges, closed down TV stations and hated America.

Hugo Chavez was not the tinpot dictator described by his critics - he was a leader brave enough to use oil revenue to help the poor.

Isn't it curious that, Professor Mike Ocquaye, for fear of been denied his malnourished body from elevated sycophancy, will reluctantly decide not to remember all these reign of chaos and awkward mannerism of his tinpot, Akufo - Addo?

«Spitzer, for all his drama and its fallout, ended up just a tinpot Clinton, but Madoff — in his Jewish George Washington looks (the hair sort of long but not unkempt and just flaring at the ears, also the melancholy nose and p.o.'d mouth), the way he so plainly resembled a caricature straight out of the Protocols of Zion — Madoff not only forever changed how the world looks at Wall Street, he also personified Jewish fears about our worst enemies» view of us.

They do so like any tinpot dictatorship, coming out with a badly defined law, enforcing it aggressively, and then making exceptions based on little more than friendship or convenience, without due process.

Harmony Korine turns up and is very funny as a brash ex-pupil from Manglehorn's formative years as a football coach, a tinpot entrepreneur with handsfree earphone and pork - pie hat who self - describes as The Tanman, on account of his seedy tanning salon / brothel.

It's sure to steal away the limelight from those tinpot models already mentioned.

I'm sure many reviewers were comparing it with the main console versions, to which it is clearly a tinpot edition, tiny in all respects and rather bugged, that's what's got low scores from the pros.

Any tinpot political theory can justify itself in this way.

«If today's motion were ever to be implemented by some radical green government or tinpot dictator, it would lead to the death of millions of poor people in the developing world, astronomical mass unemployment, and economic collapse.»

As Justice Antonin Scalia was fond of noting, every «tinpot dictator» has a bill of rights.