1.   But at no time is this conditioning of mild hysteria and personality cult a wholesome thing.

2.   However, Nyerere was said to be personally opposed to this kind of personality cult, and eventually the policy was changed.

3.   It was also a result of the growth of the press, which delighted in personality cults.

4.   The Sicilian tyrants did not, however, take the personality cult as far as the successors of Alexander.

5.   Meanwhile the personality cult around this campaigner grew.

6.   Deng -- the man and his ideas -- were lauded during the congress in a style heavily reminiscent of the personality cult which surrounded the late Chairman Mao Zedong.

7.   Some analysts claimed that the emergence of a Mao-style personality cult surrounding Deng only served to highlight the precarious position of his reformist line.

8.   For all his self-aggrandizing personality cult Saddam Hussein has succeeded in making himself a leader whose every maneuver is watched with intense interest.

9.   He ran a Stalinist personality cult and a police state.

10.   However, a handful of dissidents have criticized party leaders for what they see as a near personality cult around the Chancellor.