| 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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