|  | 1. | But no great nation can define itself against such tinpot figures. 
 
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|  | 2. | Wiktionary has a separate item at : wikt : tinpot dictator. 
 
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|  | 3. | It gives too many other tinpot tyrants the wrong idea. 
 
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|  | 4. | The high points are interviews in which Wallace treats the shah like a tinpot dictator. 
 
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|  | 5. | That happens when any tinpot is deposed. 
 
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|  | 6. | The headline said : " Media cavalcade besieges tinpot town of God and guns ." 
 
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|  | 7. | Dealing with a nuclear power, for example, is quite different from dealing with a tinpot dictator. 
 
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|  | 8. | In the provinces, local chieftains ignored the center and declared their tinpot republics " sovereign ." 
 
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|  | 9. | Norfolk bay also contains the following small rock islands : The Mackerel Islets, Tinpot Island and Mason rock. 
 
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|  | 10. | NATO was conceived 50 years ago to prevent World War III, not to face down tinpot tyrants in the Balkans. 
 
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