Word: tyrant
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...there be no doubt: Fighting is absolutely forbidden when the conditions mentioned above do not exist. And if at any point, the tyrant stops his oppressive ways or the cause of self-defense is removed, then fighting must stop immediately...
...vested interest in its own survival. When America and her allies demonstrate that the Taliban’s tolerance for terror is incompatible with self-preservation, people like Osama bin Laden will become international hot potatoes so dangerous that no government will dare shelter them. And if some benighted tyrant tests the resolve of the civilized world, we will not rest until he is brought to his knees...
...decade, presided over a nation's dismantling and masterminded the hate-inspired slaughter of thousands - all in the service of his own political survival - Milosevic's ultimate surrender stunned the world for its utter lack of drama. The magnitude of what it represented was even more staggering: a tyrant who for years mocked the values of civilized nations is now in the international community's custody. When he appears this week at the U.N.'s courtroom in the Hague to hear the charges against him - which include crimes against humanity and violations of the laws of war - the former President...
Meantime, the local tyrant, Lord Farquaad, has been torturing the Gingerbread Man. "No, not my buttons, not my gumdrop buttons!" his brave but hapless victim piteously cries. Just why his lordship takes such violent umbrage at fairy-tale creatures is not clear. But he decrees that they all be exiled from his kingdom to Shrek's fen, which irritates the monster...
...ideals are eerily similar to those of his great-grandfather, an environmentalist and pre-eminent bird watcher who pioneered the assembly line, the service station and, above all, the then heretical notion of a working wage. (And yes, the founder was also an anti-Semite and a union-busting tyrant who spied on his workers.) Henry Ford reinvented manufacturing and changed the world. Bill Ford wants to go Henry one better by embracing the notion of sustainability, or the idea that you can make things without damaging people and planets. In Ford's case, this means creating worker-friendly, environmentally...