Dictator in a sentence as a noun

If Steve Jobs was a dictator, it was because people thought he had the right to be.

\n What I did was cease to be Lift's benevolent dictator for life.

He was the creator and past benevolent dictator of Gentoo Linux.

The US has installed enough dictatorships and phony democracies for me to think this is more likely.

As the years go by, the dictator becomes accustomed to being able to settle any question by fiat.

" you say. "Even if the goals are selfish and strategic, democracy is still good, and Cuba would clearly be better off without a dictator.

You can't have a "'benevolent' dictator for life"; a dictator for life is dictator for life, and power corrupts.

Forget installing a shah of Iran or propping some dictator in a South American country.

Because our policy goals only pretend to care about dictatorships.

Why do we celebrate this theme of Professor as omnipotent, benevolent dictator of the classroom?

I'd like to live in a world where an ******* strong arm dictator can't blame "US meddling" for any unrest without being dismissed out of hand, but sadly, I don't live in that world.

Put in place a carefully controlled puppet dictator or similar for a couple decades, one who will build up strong institutions of government and industry.

The real purpose is if everyone is inherently a criminal all the time, then everyone can be punished as much as any tin pot dictator desires at any time.

But you especially can't have a benevolent dictator for life who is/was the CEO of a corporation, whose sole purpose, by definition, is to maximise shareholder value.

Then, later, when the next dictator they propped up starts bombing innocent civilians, the politicians will act outraged "who knew that by supplying weapons systems to a dictator he would ever turn them on innocent people?

It's kind of like a bunch of micro-sized benevolent dictatorships, but the dictator is naturally selected through capitalistic means: successful individuals gather the wealth required to reach this role in society.

After all, supporting Wayland means working in a committee-ish environment, with principal developers not on the payroll and thus not able to be whipped at a certain pace, and without a dictator's say in the direction of the product.

\n There would be no place to hide.\n\n If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator \n ever took charge in this country, the technological \n capacity that the intelligence community has given the \n government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and \n there would be no way to fight back because the most \n careful effort to combine together in resistance to the \n government, no matter how privately it was done, is\n within the reach of the government to know.

Dictator definitions

noun

a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine

noun

a ruler who is unconstrained by law

See also: potentate

noun

a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"

See also: authoritarian