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1 That was the assessment of Democratic leaders, legal observers and security experts last night, with some drawing direct comparisons to Watergate and tinpot dictatorships.

2 It is the hallmark of many non-Democratic countries that tinpot dictators appear, at the drop of a hat, on national broadcast outlets.

3 We're only tinpot people and to actually have a racecourse put a whole shebang on like this, I was pinching myself this morning.

4 TV is more of a writer’s or producer’s medium; it clips the wings of a director and prevents them from behaving like tinpot dictators.

5 He can become a hero of political and national growth or he can avoid becoming a caricaturish, intolerant, tinpot dictator.

6 He has a tinpot potentate’s vanity and appetite for parade-ground sycophancy.

7 If Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s disparagement of atheists was just the ranting of a tinpot politician turned Fox News bloviator, it could be left without comment or fuss.

8 In the English-speaking provinces many Conservatives denounced a Canadian fleet as 'a tinpot navy,' useless, expensive, and separatist, and called for a gift of Dreadnoughts.

9 The momentary glimpse I had of that chief's face made clear to me many passages in history, many things in literature, many dark and tortuous riddles in the adventures of my own little tinpot soul.

10 Don't make too much of your little tinpot tragedy.

11 It’s just that I associated such rises with unexceptional, largely tinpot countries or ones truly down on their luck.

12 This lamentable tendency to make excuses for the inexcusable, and not infrequently to embrace tinpot tyrants on the flimsiest of ideological grounds, has reappeared alongside other symptoms of Cold War disease.

13 Mr Emmerson told the inquiry Mr Putin was an "increasingly isolated tinpot despot" and a "morally deranged authoritarian".

14 But as the rebels who eventually toppled those tinpot dictators knew, the best way to victory is to inspire in Latinos an emotion just as visceral, and one that Democrats have seemed to forget: hope.

15 By a tinpot demagogue stomping on checks and balances he can’t even fathom or a shadowy authoritarian expertly and quietly dismantling checks and balances he knows are sacred?

16 Chavez said the word socialism but really was a common tinpot dictator.

17 Russell Beale is also very good at swivel-eyed panic and never lets us forget that, while Roote is a tinpot tyrant, he himself is in nervous thrall to his ministerial superiors.

18 She added: “He is behaving like a tinpot dictator… and it’s not acceptable and it should be called out.”

19 "The tinpot style," said Mr. Britling at last in a voice of extreme bitterness.

20 The result is that promises from the U.S. government are now as worthless as those from a tinpot dictator.

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2 廉价

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3 无能的

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4 不起作用的

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5 不重要的

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6 劣质

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7 无足轻重的

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8 无足轻重

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9 无能

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10 不重要

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11 不值钱的

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12 劣质的

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13 低劣的

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15 品质低劣的

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16 低劣

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