How To Use Strongman In A Sentence
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The Latin American strongman, his blond wife at his side, addresses the enraptured masses from the balcony of a presidential palace.
Don't Cry For Me, Caracas
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One way of escaping such dichotomies is to cease thinking about them, replacing this uncomfortable confusion with decisive rule by a strongman.
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CNN -- Former top Pakistani military officers Sunday called for Pakistan's former strongman to be allowed back without facing arrest and condemned what they called the "bashing" of the country's armed forces.
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The Venezuelan strongman had promised that his candidates would win two-thirds of the unicameral congress, guaranteeing it would continue to be a rubber stamp.
A Defeat for Ch
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"I don't know, " he said when asked if he planned to see the Iraqi strongman.
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Namibian strongman Andre du Preez will perform his feats of physical strength for one and half hours before the start of the fireworks.
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Now, through a combination of hard work and good luck, it appears that the strongman from Herat has been able to fulfil his pledge.
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Kunduz is the home ground of Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek strongman.
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Foreigners were expelled, and then-military strongman General Ne Win set about creating a Burmese brand of socialism, putting the army in control of the country's largest businesses.
Myanmar Urges Vote Amid Crisis
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He has repeatedly guaranteed the former military strongman an immediate pardon were he ever to be convicted.
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A classic Latin American caudillo, or strongman, Mr. Chávez has developed an emotional, direct and personal relationship with Venezuela's poor masses akin to that of a televangelist.
Chávez Roils Venezuela With Return
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But let’s step back for a moment: how far have we fallen when a leftist Latin American strongman is more persuasive in the international arena than the freaking President of the United States?
Think Progress » Summit of the Americas: Then and Now
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The film is based on the true story of a Jewish strongman (played by two-time world's strongest man Jouko Ahola) in Nazi Germany.
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Their fortunes are being revived with the feeling, increasingly common in Peru and elsewhere, that only a caudillo, the classic Latin strongman, can solve the longstanding problems that plague the region.
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Perhaps it was the "flamboyance" that explained why he never clinched the deal with Robert Mugabe, the famously homophobic Zimbabwean strongman who has accused Tony Blair of being a "gay gangster" leading "the gay government of the gay United gay Kingdom," and prides himself on being able to spot "flamboyance" at 200 yards.
The Pariah Guy
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More photos and interactive graphics Escalating tensions, the Gulf Arab countries brokering negotiations between the Yemeni strongman and the wide-ranging political opposition calling for an end to his 32-year rule suspended their efforts because of what they called the "lack of appropriate conditions" for a peaceful handover of power.
Yemen Leader Balks at Quitting
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he is determined to bring down the Iraqi strongman
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He was a military strongman who ruled the country after a coup.
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Ivan ‘the Polish Piledriver’ Putski was a legendary strongman, famous for performing feats of strength prior to matches.
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Fresh from nationalizing almost every capitalist enterprise that yields a profit (or used to anyway), Latin American strongman Hugo Chávez has found a new class enemy: golf.
Chávez Takes a Swing at Golf
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They opt for a presidential system, which tends to be a bad idea in states with traditions of strongman rule.
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Congo's presidential vote is the second since the 2001 assassination of revolutionary Laurent-Désiré Kabila, who overthrew strongman Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997.
Congo Strife Rises After Poll
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Both draw their power from the compelling image of the strongman posing as the common man.
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NIAMEY (AFP) - Thousands of people rallied in Niger's capital Niamey on Saturday in support of their new military rulers after a coup ousted the strongman of the uranium-rich nation,
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Regional "presidents and party leaders are looking over their shoulders (concerned about the) specter (they) thought they had safely interred: that of the populist demagogue, the authoritarian man on horseback known as the caudillo (strongman)" taking power.
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The strongman himself is often a colourless figure.
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The military strongman rules Taiwan until his death in 1975.
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To the Pakistani strongman, Kashmir is a matter of commitment and conviction.
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To put the failed coup leaders in front of a firing squad would secure the president's legacy as the strongman who crushed the army.
Times, Sunday Times
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Proof that the odd strongman is often preferable to the alternative.
Matthew Yglesias » Green Lantern in Indochina
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What's the difference between Saleh and Moammar Gadhafi?" said Fouad Althaibani, 38 years old and an engineer, referring to the deposed Libyan strongman.
Yemen's President Saleh Faces Protesters in New York
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Does anybody know if the gossip about polish strongman Mariusz Pudzianowski playing new terminator is true?
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While the Canadian government, for all its faceless fumbling bureaucracy, isn't infallible, we've also never had an iron-fisted strongman declare every Monday a holiday to honour his dog.
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That it does not have this is a sign of political immaturity and the KMT's origins in strongman rule.
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A circus strongman who specialised in bending steel bars, he found a lucrative alternative career digging out Egyptian antiquities for wealthy patrons.
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Although Gemma has been a keen supporter of strongman competitions since she was small, she only started training in a gym six months ago, in an attempt to slim down for her singing career.
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So the question of whether Bush should have installed a strongman is mute – it is like wondering what would happen if Bush could raise people from the dead.
Matthew Yglesias » Green Lantern in Indochina
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The North African nation was celebrating a full two weeks free of the iron-fisted rule of its longtime strongman.
Many Tunisians pleased at interim government
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The KMT regime relied completely on the unique characteristics of a strongman leader, emphasizing leadership over the law.
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Adding his own twist to the Latin American strongman railing against American policies, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras began talking to journalists on Tuesday.
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Less than nine years past the end of Saddam Hussein's brutal reign, the word dictator springs easily to the lips of Iraqis, many of whom question Western-style democracy and readily admit that they believe their country needs a strongman leader.
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Australia, brags Mr Costello, has become not the poor white trash but " the strongman of Asia " .
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He is determined to bring down the Iraqi strongman.
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Nigerians want a stronger leader, but not a return to strongman politics.
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The second-largest party — a pro-military group, the National Unity Party, loyal to late strongman General Ne Win — has joined in the criticism despite being viewed as being broadly pro-establishment.
Frustrations Increase After Myanmar Vote
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Borges was deep down an old-fashioned liberal, however, who despised the Spanish-American tradition of the caudillo (political strongman) and its vulgar populism.
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One for the latex lovers in your life, this anniversary alternative event is circus-themed, but remember to peel off your strongman's handlebar 'tache if you want to tuck into the birthday cake in the chillout room.
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Since the January 14 overthrow of Tunisian strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the subsequent February 11 toppling of Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak via campaigns of mass civil disobedience, the socio-political landscape of the Middle East and North Africa has been dramatically, and perhaps permanently, altered.
Atif Choudhury: The Libyan No-Fly Zone: A New Paradigm for Humanitarian Intervention and the Reinforcement of Democracy
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In a briefing Monday afternoon on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where President Barack Obama is vacationing with his family, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the "best information" indicated that the Libyan strongman was still in Libya, whereabouts unknown.
U.S. Officials: Gadhafi Is Still in the Country
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After easily defeating a circus strongman for a cash prize, Zishe catches the attention of a German impresario who wants him to come to Berlin.
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Kremlin strongman Gordon Brown has once again shown the world that he's not a man to be messed with.
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To say that the Libyan strongman has "mellowed" is an assessment based merely on lack of publicity.
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‘Wiranto wants a reconciliation,’ said Muladi, who was a justice minister under the 32-year rule of strongman Suharto.
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Now, through a combination of hard work and good luck, it appears that the strongman from Herat has been able to fulfil his pledge.
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Close associates of the former strongman allegedly often garnered funds from Bulog for their own businesses.
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Macdonald considers the oddball strongman a performance artist who was ‘part of our culture, our heritage.’
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To put the failed coup leaders in front of a firing squad would secure the president's legacy as the strongman who crushed the army.
Times, Sunday Times
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To put the failed coup leaders in front of a firing squad would secure the president's legacy as the strongman who crushed the army.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a military strongman who ruled the country after a coup.
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When Suharto was Indonesia's president, the strongman's relatives and friends built business empires blessed by his favor.
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He is no Baltasar Garzón, the flamboyant, media-hungry Spanish magistrate who sought the extradition of Chile's Augusto Pinochet on charges that the Latin American strongman had Spaniards tortured and killed — and who is now weighing a possible case against some top Bush administration lawyers who gave advice clearing the way for the alleged torture of terror suspects.
The Long Arm of the Law
