For the spectacle of the last few months has resembled nothing so much as a melodrama set in some Third World kleptocracy, with Forbes the tinpot dictator holding out and refusing to accept what everyone already knew-- that his future was over.
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The satchems and sages of Europe are doing that for him, round-the-clock, as he calibrates the threat of US firepower against the latest tinpot despot to bait Uncle Sam, the repulsive Butcher of the Balkans, Slobodan Milosevic.
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"Tony Blair has gone against the public, gone against many members of his own party, he's ignored the U . N . He has acted like a tinpot despot, " said Elizabeth Ray-Jones, 73.
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As they watch the punishment being meted out to Serbia, many a tinpot dictator will be wondering whether the secret acquisition of ballistic missiles, tipped with chemicals, germs or even nuclear weapons, would not be the best way to avoid a similar fate.
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The north and east sides of the community are part of the Potomac River watershed via Licking Run, Cedar Run, and the Occoquan River, while the west and south sides are part of the Rappahannock River watershed, via Tinpot Run and Bowens Run.
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Tony Blair has gone against the public, gone against many members of his own party, he's ignored the U . N . He has acted like a tinpot despot, " said Elizabeth Ray-Jones, a retiree from Cornwall who was celebrating her 73rd birthday by joining the protest.
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Corporal Jones'suggestion of cutting the prisoners'trouser buttons off is dismissed by the U-Boat Captain as being a violation of the Geneva Convention, thus earning Mainwaring's ire; and Mainwaring proceeds to refer to Adolf Hitler as a tinpot dictator resembling Charlie Chaplin, thus annoying the captain.
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It's usually obvious if something should be in or not : an elaborate joke or even whole episode of ( say ) the Simpsons inspired by the article topic is usually a very good example, while a tiny one joke mention in some tinpot poorly received film or sketch show or whatever is unlikely to be acceptable imo.
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Despite his arrogance being encouraged by his status as the bank manager, Mainwaring reveals in the same episode that he considers it a mere " tinpot branch " and his career is at a seemingly permanent standstill, as revealed in A . Wilson ( Manager ) ? : whenever he applies for promotions he is always turned down due to his unimpressive background.
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This sucking-up to a tinpot tyrant with dynastic pretensions who derides as " decadent " the Western ideal of individual liberty was the brainchild of Henry Kissinger and James Schlesinger, in fond remembrance of Lee's anti-Communism during the Vietnam War, and of U . S . corporate superpragmatists who hope Asian governments will smile on their endeavors.
