Sentences with phrase «tinpot dictator»

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

«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.»

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

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.

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?

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.