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A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.

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Dictators are always punished eventually.

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A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.

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A tyrannical boss or authority figure.

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A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk).

The dictator was nominated by one of the consuls.

After the nomination, the imperium of the dictator was confirmed by a lex curiata.

Statues of Blanco, which had been erected in various places in the city of Caracas, were broken by the mob, and wherever a portrait of the dictator was found it was torn to pieces.

He soon became virtually a dictator, as Queen Christina took offence at his popularity and resigned, leaving the kingdom very soon afterwards.

The powers of a dictator were a temporary revival of those of the kings; but there were some limitations to his authority.

There could only be one city praefect at a time, though the dictator Caesar broke the rule by appointing six or eight praefects simultaneously.

Darian was right about Dusty being a dictator.

From this time he was in fact, if not in name, the dictator.

Subsequently Juan Manuel Rosas, dictator of Buenos Aires, interfered in the intestine quarrels of Uruguay; and Montevideo was besieged by his forces, allied with the native partisans of General Oribe, for nine years (1843-52).

In his absence a rising against the dictator took place at Caracas, and his adherents were seized and imprisoned.

He was twice dictator and six times consul, and occupied the curule chair twenty-one times.

An army of Correntine, Uruguayan and Brazilian troops, under General Urquiza, assisted by a Brazilian naval squadron, advanced on Buenos Aires, completely routed the forces of Rosas, and crushed for ever the power of that dictator.

He became military dictator in 1841, and governed by violence till he was driven into exile by mutiny in 1845.

In 48 B.C. he was created dictator for the second time, probably with constituent powers and for an undefined period, according to the dangerous and unpopular precedent of Sulla.

In May 46 B.C. a third dictatorship was conferred on Caesar, this time for ten years and apparently as a yearly office, so that he became Dictator IV.

Ultimate peace is uniformly proclaimed by every dictator at home, by every conqueror abroad, as the goal to which he is directing his efforts.

After the death of the dictator, he joined Antony, whose legions he afterwards commanded in the north of Italy.

The dictator alone among military commanders had no quaestor, because a quaestor would have been a limitation to his powers.

Even in the imperial period its chief magistrate was styled dictator, and its council senatus, and it preserved its own calendar of festivals.

The cry was taken up. Maelius, summoned before the aged Cincinnatus (specially appointed dictator), refused to appear, and was slain by Gaius Servilius Ahala; his house was razed to the ground, his corn distributed amongst the people, and his property confiscated.

During the retreat of the Paraguayans the dictator ordered every town and village passed through to be razed to the ground, and every living animal for which no use could be found to be slaughtered.

The agency's best efforts at overthrowing the Iraqi dictator have failed for a decade.

He has decreed that the hated former dictator Abacha should be allowed to keep $ 100 million of the money he looted.

She calls Robert Mugabe ' a murderous dictator ' .

An attempt to unseat an unstable dictator armed with nuclear weapons would be a felony.

Castro remains more a venerated national father figure than typical Marxist dictator.

Since fascism was the main principle followed in the government, all of the control was in the hands of the dictator.

The relationship between Sting and the dictator's daughter has human rights activists on the warpath.

The big deal is that Gulnara Karimov is the daughter of Uzbekistan's dictator, Islam Karimov.

The same dictator whose government is charged with the massacre of up to 5,000 people in the city of Andijan.

His daughter, Gulnara, seems to be following in her dictator daddy's footsteps by coming under fire for forcing child labor and embezzling from the small, impoverished nation's revenues to pad her family's bank accounts.

For his gripping role as ruthless Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, Forest Whitaker took home an Oscar for Best Actor in 2006 for the movie The Last King of Scotland.

If you recall the classic Star Trek episode called "Space Seed", this is where we first meet Khan, a ruthless dictator who wanted to bring "order" to the planet Earth with his own abuse of power.

Next year he was praetor, and he was once dictator.

He eventually became dictator, dissolved Congress (May 31, 1834) and the state legislatures, and substituted creatures of his 1834 own for the governors of the states and mayors of towns, then retiring into private life.

On the 16th of December 1853 Santa Anna issued a decree making himself dictator, with the title of serene highness.

The clergy protested violently, and the Plan of Tacubaya (Dec. 17, 1857), which made Comonfort dictator, provided for the construction of a new constitution under his auspices.

Finally, the people elected to every magistracy with the exception of the occasional offices of Dictator and Interrex.

We know from Strabo that they had a democratic constitution save in time of war, when a dictator was chosen from among the regular magistrates.

The policy which made Louis Napoleon dictator forced him into mortal conflict with the republican parties; and - the price of the parliamentary support of the Catholic majority was high.

Cicero calls Ahala's deed a glorious one, but, whether Maelius entertained any ambitious projects or not, his summary execution was an act of murder, since by the Valerio-Horatian laws the dictator was bound to allow the right of appeal.

Sixty years later, at the time of the dictator Caesar, we find two Mauretanian kingdoms, one to the west of the river Mulucha under Bogud, and the other to the east under a Bocchus; as to the date or cause of the division we are ignorant.

It was proposed that he should be invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language, and that his decisions about the meaning and the spelling of words should be received as final.

It was still necessary for the man who had been formerly saluted by the highest authority as dictator of the English language to supply his wants by constant toil.

It was one of the members of the Latin League, and remained independent until conquered by Rome in 338 B.C. At first it did not enjoy the right of Roman citizenship, but acquired it later; and even in imperial times its chief magistrate and municipal council kept the titles of dictator and senatus respectively.

The democratic Urbina now became practically dictator, and as the attempt of Flores to reinstate Noboa proved a total failure, he was quickly succeeded in 1856 by General Francisco Robles, who, among other progressive measures, secured the adoption of the French system of coinage, weights and measures.

The traditions of early Rome indeed represent the patricians as receiving the Claudii by a collective act into their body; but the first authenticated instance of the admission of new members to the patriciate is that of the lex Cassia, which authorized Caesar as dictator to create fresh patricians.

A dictator, as taking the place of the two consuls, had 24 fasces (including the axe even within the city); most of the other magistrates had fasces varying in number, with the exception of the censors, who, as possessing no executive authority, had none.

The inheritance was a perilous one; his mother and others would have dissuaded him from accepting it, but he, confident in his abilities, declared at once that he would undertake its obligations, and discharge the sums bequeathed by the dictator to the Roman people.

His plays include Miss Civilization; The Dictator; The Galloper; The Orator of Zapata City and The Zone Police.