Throughout the race Donald Trump has prompted commentators to write of his " strongman politics" or his efforts to " join the strongman club".
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There may be room in such a relationship for strongman-to-strongman shows of "respect," but Mr. Trump must not kid himself.
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Go deeper: 2018: The year of the strongman Why Xi and Putin think "the West is in free fall" Putin's strongman choices shrink Russia's future
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Females now make up 35 percent of the 20,000 U.S. Strongman members, said Dione Wessels, chief executive officer of Strongman Corp, the competition's governing body.
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If he associates with other strongmen, then he appears as a strongman, and being a strongman is exactly what people want deep down in their souls.
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"He behaves like a strongman, but he does not have the capabilities of a strongman," says Mattia Toaldo of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank.
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They should also condemn the deliberate mass bombing of Syrian civilians in Syria by troops under the command of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.
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" Other highlights: On authoritarianism: "Strongman politics are ascendant suddenly.
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CAIRO — Smiling and looking hale, the Libyan strongman Gen.
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At the same time, strongman theatre was viewed with suspicion.
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MACCALLUM: So what about this argument that strongman are ascendant?
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MACCALLUM: You are a strongman, but in a different way.
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Philippines election: Why voters yearn for 'strongman' leader ISIS affiliation?
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How is he going to go from here to strongman?
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Countries whose stability depends on an individual strongman are brittle.
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The Philippines is the latest entrant into the strongman club.
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Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan's strongman president of 30 years, resigned abruptly.
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Algeria cannot say what will happen when the strongman dies.
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Encouragingly, however, strongman rule receives its share of reversals too.
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Prince Ranariddh has recently made his peace with the strongman.
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How does Bolsonaro's image as a strongman factor in here?
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A strongman is what people in other countries fall for.
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He was a strongman in his own company for decades.
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First the Russian strongman Vladimir Putin is worthy of admiration.
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Russia, among others, is sticking with strongman President Nicolas Maduro.
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His image as a strongman would be shot to pieces.
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FOR YOUR average African strongman, constitutions can be a bore.
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Trump, in this view, is a type — an authoritarian strongman.
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Their similar strongman tactics have also landed them at loggerheads.
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Russia likes a strongman, and Putin likes being that man.
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But demonstrations alone didn't bring down Venezuela's strongman back then.
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Being a strongman in Prato means being strong in Europe.
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Like the false strongman Vulcanus, Trump is all bluster and violence.
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Its strongman, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has been in charge since Soviet times.
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North Korea, by comparison, has only ever known its strongman era.
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Dupla Mão na Roda is a strongman routine with a twist.
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Mr Trump, as a strongman populist, does not traffic in complexity.
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It's entirely possible to be a strongman and genuine reformer simultaneously.
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In these circumstances, Pope Francis has emerged as the anti-strongman.
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Here's what you need to know: • The era of the strongman?
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Here's the news: • Are we in the era of the strongman?
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What is happening in Hungary is a return to strongman rule.
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Trump is also, like Putin, widely perceived as an authoritarian strongman.
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He used, and continues to use, the language of the strongman.
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They wanted a strongman who could stand up to the West.
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Do GOP candidates support Trump's admiration of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin?
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Ironically, many are now calling for a return to strongman rule.
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Lourenço could act the strongman and simply seize her Angolan assets.
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And strongman governments are flourishing in many parts of the world.
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However, the Philippines has a worrying precedent of a strongman leader.
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Two other factors have helped whet voters' appetites for strongman rule.
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Hun Sen, Cambodia's strongman, recently praised Mr. Trump's "fake news" awards.
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GOLDBERG: No. I think -- I think one of the reasons why though, that a lot of those things happen was in part because Barack Obama had a theory about how the world works that was in direct defiance of how the world actually works, and so he showed weakness to strongman around the world and strongman did what strongman do.
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Clinton foresaw some of the hazards of toppling another Middle Eastern strongman.
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Right now, he is on the road to becoming another Arab strongman.
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Africa's gradual shift away from long-term, strongman leaders is gathering pace.
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Trump is setting himself up as a strongman, beyond good and evil.
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The ex-strongman may lack the clout to implement such an offer.
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Mr Trump promised to forgo his salary before ever meeting Egypt's strongman.
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Damn democracy, say many Iraqis; if only we had a strongman again.
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But his message was no doubt heard by another regional strongman: Putin.
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Mr Rao, the Telangana strongman, talks of just such a "federal" front.
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As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump praised autocrats and exhibited strongman tendencies.
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He paints himself as champion of democracy keen to replace strongman rule.
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Mr Duterte commands Congress like a strongman, thanks to his approval ratings.
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So why risk the downfall of a strongman who serves French interests?
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Kim Jong Nam, left, and North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un, right.
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The strongman competition host, Lars Petersen, originally invited Herbert to the festival.
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But rather than back off, the Russian strongman issued his own threat.
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Could Americans actually let an authoritarian strongman trample on our democratic norms?
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The president is far more of a strongman than Mr Hu was.
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Government is to be a strongman to protect its citizens against evildoers.
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Yanukovych, a pro-Russian strongman, involved such D.C. notables as Tony Podesta,
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Go deeper: What the future holds for Maduro and other strongman leaders.
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We have to get past this strongman fixation we have in Venezuela.
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President Trump has promoted the image of the strongman in world governance.
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In his stead, he appointed the former president and strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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A popular uprising ousted its longtime strongman, President Blaise Compaoré, in 2014.
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For years, Viktor Orban, Hungary's strongman leader, has craved validation from Washington.
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She is taken on tour and integrated into his feeble strongman act.
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One hundred years ago this fall, a celebrity showman became a strongman.
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Menendez has previously criticized Sanders for not denouncing Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
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I see Trump that way: as a strongman, a protector, a fighter.
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The Russian strongman insisted his country isn't interested in an arms race.
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A strongman becomes both a comfort blanket and a stern, trusted figurehead.
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America's strongman From the start of his presidential campaign, Trump has been more demagogue than statesman, signaling in his admiration for Putin that he is the first modern major-party candidate to prefer a strongman approach to governing.
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Why fatigued Filipino voters yearn for a 'strongman' leader How did voting progress?
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She was working there, and Thor was in town for a Strongman competition.
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When a subsequent military strongman dropped secularism, Sheikh Hasina campaigned to restore it.
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And Sisi, a former general, is the kind of strongman leader Trump admires.
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They tolerated a strongman who may not have been desirable but was capable.
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He's an authoritarian strongman, and he's never been more popular with GOP voters.
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Soon, two-time North American Strongman champion Patrick Castelli was stealing the show.
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Mr Vucic has projected himself as a strongman who can defend Serbian interests.
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We have never before faced the prospect of a political strongman becoming president.
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The big picture: 2018 has been a good year to be a strongman.
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They call it the strongman exercise at Clance Laylor's gym in downtown Toronto.
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The Mountain is played by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, a real-life Icelandic strongman.
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In the eastern city of Benghazi, which is dominated by the strongman Gen.
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Under a strongman-style rule, even the leaders themselves grow demonstrably less competent.
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Mr. Xi's strongman style has been compared to that of the Russian president.
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That represents an embarrassment to Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the strongman who rules Chechnya.
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He was apparently roused from sleep by the Chechen strongman Ramzan A. Kadyrov.
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The president swore in a former strongman leader, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as prime minister.
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The Venezuelan strongman must not be allowed to bring it to a halt.
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Broidy also reportedly offered tickets to VIP inauguration events to a Congolese strongman.
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The president has not met a strongman whose machismo does not beguile him.
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Not only did the Turkish strongman return Donald Trump's sophomoric letter of Oct.
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Congress, the media and the judiciary bend their knee to the vengeful strongman.
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The Trump administration is pushing for the ouster of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
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The strongman knows all too well that a military response is highly unlikely.
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" He says Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has "done a tremendous job.
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But Trump may need more than that when he meets the Russian strongman.
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While a renewed attack on Ukraine by Russian forces might make a warm relationship with Russia a hard sell on the campaign trail, it would play into Trump's not-so-veiled suggestion that it takes a strongman to confront a strongman.
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MACCALLUM: Well, you know, I thought it was interesting when the president -- when President Obama was talking about strongman, you know, and I think about another way of looking at that is that a strongman, you know, some might make the argument, conservatives might make the argument, that the strongman is the government and that the government has grown and grown and grown and encroached on people&aposs freedoms.
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Maldives became a multiparty democracy in 2008, ending Gayoom&aposs 30-year strongman rule.
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Buttressed by suppression at home and military adventures abroad, he is the archetypal strongman.
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He has all the elements of a strongman: strident nationalism, personality cult, enfeebled opposition.
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They were ready to fall in love with a defiantly un-PC celebrity strongman.
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The West needs a muscular foreign policy to face down the world's new strongman. ■
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The country's strongman, Hun Sen, has been in power for more than 30 years.
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Uganda has an authoritarian government, presided over by an ageing and increasingly testy strongman.
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Hungary's strongman only understands strength—and the EPP continues to show little of it.
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He sounds as admiring of China's strongman leader, Xi Jinping, as the president does.
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"He says he's a strongman but he's afraid of Megyn Kelly," Sasse told CNN.
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In that sense, his appeal resembles that of a Latin American caudillo, or strongman.
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Washington (CNN)When he looks in the mirror, President Donald Trump sees a strongman.
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China needs a strongman like Mao, they say (though not his Red Guard mobs).
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The ageing strongman once said that only one-party rule could hold Cameroon together.
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Shafik was the last prime minister to serve under former strongman leader Hosni Mubarak.
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It invited belief in the leadership of the strongman against enemies within and without.
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" Trump praised Kim's love of his country, sizing up the strongman as "very talented.
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On the contrary, he has repeatedly praised the Russian strongman, often in extravagant terms.
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Mr Haftar believes that Libya can be stabilised only by a strongman (himself, naturally).
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Despite the challenges they're facing, the year of the strongman looks likely to continue.
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But the Trump administration has taken an unusually strong stance against Maduro's strongman reign.
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This confusion reflects various partisan derangements, plus the destabilizing influence of Trump's strongman shtick.
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It is in retreat in Latin America, which has known a strongman or 12.
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It is the Spanish government that has used illiberal strongman tactics throughout this affair.
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But it smacks of the envy our stunted strongman feels for his role models.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — President Trump has finally met a strongman he does not like.
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Strongman politics and boss-man rule, in simplest form, is the story of mankind.
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He replaces Robert Mugabe, 93, the strongman he helped oust in a bloodless coup.
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Omar Torrijos Herrera, Panama's strongman, to be the country's consul general in New York.
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"Ah yes, Qaddafi," she said with a wry smile, recalling the deposed Libyan strongman.
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President Xi Jinping's tilt toward strongman rule could put all that to the test.
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The Samsonite brand — which honors Samson, the biblical strongman — was first used in 1941.
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It increasingly looks like strongman Xi Jinping is moving further away from Davos-economics.
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The strongman remains ensconced in power, with backing from U.S. adversaries Russia and Cuba.
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The Turkish strongman said he would only speak to Trump when he visits Turkey.
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Mike Bloomberg and Donald Trump's shared love of executive power makes them strongman soulmates
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For all his strongman economist posturing, he never repudiates his longstanding Hindu nationalist views.
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I stand with the people of the Philippines in fighting against his strongman tactics.
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He had already lost the support of his vice president, the Uzbek strongman Gen.
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There's also the show's broader philosophy, its strongman fetishization of survival at any cost.
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A strongman rules by fear -- inherently viewing citizens as weak and governments as powerful.
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Mr. Xi appears particularly set against making concessions that could weaken his strongman reputation.
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Nicknamed the "Crocodile," the former vice president is widely seen as another ruthless strongman.
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They are supporting a tribe with a strongman leader, not a set of ideas.
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Sirisena fired the premier last year and installed opposition strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa in his stead.
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The strongman politics of Trump shows that while he may project strength, he lacks expertise.
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The move is certainly on-brand for Trump, who tends to fawn over strongman leaders.
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Le Pen has a history of ties to Russia and affection for its strongman leader.
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And he thinks America like all great countries needs a strongman to get things done!
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The state may be led by a former strongman, but it is still fundamentally weak.
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During the 32-year rule of Suharto, Indonesia's late strongman, the laws were rarely invoked.
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Meles Zenawi, who ruled as a strongman from 1995 to 2012, was stern and cerebral.
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During the late 1800s and early 1900s, strongman acts toured Europe and the United States.
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For a strongman in need of a bogeyman, there is something irresistible about Mr Soros.
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His primary motivation appears to be putting on the best performance as a strongman president.
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The Turkish strongman had been putting the screws on the Dogan group for much longer.
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It's an idea borrowed from Chairman Mao Zedong, the strongman founder of the People's Republic.
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Trump is running as a strongman who would be "tough" on crime, immigration, and terrorism.
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They both reach for this macho, strongman image, and some people just eat it up.
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Rajapaksa, a former strongman, is credited for ending Sri Lanka's savage civil war in 2009.
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Talking about changing liberal laws is another ominous sign of Trump's aspiration to strongman status.
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Mr Xi, it appears, has no scruples about being seen as the pre-eminent strongman.
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Trump as a strongman On the political front, the President, characteristically, is choosing to attack.
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The question on everyone's lips: Would this signal the end of strongman rule in Africa?
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Cheesy strongman tropes aside, The Rock clearly believes in the transformational power of physical fitness.
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Rolf Müller, a circus strongman, is suspected to be Hooded Justice, but it's never confirmed.
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It should be up to the people of Iraq, I argued, to oust their strongman.
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Meanwhile, Chinese analysts lauded Mr. Trump's recent private praise of President Xi Jinping's strongman rule.
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As he consolidated power in the 1990s, he allied himself with Serbia's strongman, Slobodan Milosevic.
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The strongman president will now have his hands full containing the fallout from the loss.
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The strongman himself has been curiously absent, even as Moscow went into lockdown on Monday.
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Another strongman, known as the Crocodile, has been named Mr. Mugabe's successor as party leader.
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And in Libya, an aging general is battling to establish himself as a new strongman.
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Who knew that during Rice's days as secretary of state, the former Libyan strongman Col.
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For a politician often depicted as Italy's strongman-in-waiting, Mr Salvini suddenly looks vulnerable. ■
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Easy-to-use technology straight from Moscow for any aspiring strongman — at a low price.
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Former Zambia strongman Frederick Chiluba siphoned off millions from state coffers into Delaware shell companies.
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The attacks in Colombo bolstered the strongman campaign of Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the presidential election.
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In West Africa, voters in Gambia ousted a strongman who had reigned for 22 years.
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Wilson became the last American to meet with the Iraqi strongman early in the crisis.
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Everyone has family trouble around the holidays, even strongman leaders suspected of crimes against humanity.
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Washington's closest allies, and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, will be waiting anxiously for the answers.
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After erecting a Potemkin village of democracy for an agonizing decade or so, the Russians thrust forward a strongman amid the chaos, a strongman who was determined to reassemble the pieces of a broken empire, in the process strangling Russian democracy in its cradle.
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The failed putsch prompted the country's strongman president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to round on his opponents.
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Last October, for example, the Venezuelan strongman turned a meeting with Francis into a propaganda coup.
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So it&aposs difficult to argue that the strongman has become more active since he left.
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The longer a strongman remains in power, the more resourceful he must be to maintain it.
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But only the most naïve strongman would bet against the will, ingenuity, and endurance of Cambodians.
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Strongman performances, exercise systems and muscle-building programmes are what we refer to as "physical culture".
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On the one hand, Trump relishes the strongman persona around which he built his political brand.
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From the early 1990s, Ethiopia pursued an agriculture-led development strategy, under visionary strongman Meles Zenawi.
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People become willing to hand power to a strongman who promises to solve all their problems.
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Then a strongman comes along and says, 'Look, I'll take care of these problems for you.
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Mr Mirziyoyev served as prime minister to Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's recently deceased strongman of 25 years.
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Despite the efforts of its new strongman, Xi Jinping, China cannot develop fully without greater freedoms.
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For Cambodians, it was a change from the strongman-like figure he presented for years before.
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It is hard to imagine him regretting a powerful presidency—and many Filipinos love a strongman.
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Hadi&aposs predecessor as Yemen&aposs president, long-ruling strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, set the model.
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That would threaten the position of General Haftar, who harbours ambitions to be Libya's next strongman.
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The country was ruled by a single strongman and now we have a parliament and elections.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin governs as a strongman, but there are significant holes in his armor.
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He won the World's Strongest Man, Europe's Strongest Man and Arnold Strongman Classic ... all in 2018.
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It also created fears of instability that might make people more amenable to his strongman pitch.
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As the Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro cracked down on dissent, Democrats and Republicans championed opposition activists.
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From the early days of his presidential campaign, Trump exhibited unabashed admiration for the Russian strongman.
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But other forms of disorder — blood in the streets — send them scurrying for the brutal strongman.
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Meanwhile, misleading articles in favor of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte have bolstered the leader's strongman image.
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It was a surprise when the strongman announced in August that he would not seek reelection.
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While he's no longer in Congress, Dana Rohrabacher was a driving force behind the strongman caucus.
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It's possible American institutions have failed so thoroughly that some sort of illiberal strongman is inevitable.
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Jon, who is American and known as Strongman, has traveled to take work where it's offered.
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Chen has a reputation as a strongman and is something of a specialist in ethnic crackdowns.
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Khalifa Hifter, the military strongman whose forces routed the last Islamist militias from Benghazi in December.
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People like Vekselberg, very wealthy Russians without personal ties to the new strongman, got the message.
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Every so often, he drops into Panama to swap packages with that country's strongman, Manuel Noriega.
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Trump is full of pride, obsessed with strongman personas, and absent of historical and geopolitical perspective.
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He has shown an affinity for Modi, even (or perhaps because) he inches toward strongman status.
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Putin's strongman strategy of using foreign affairs to shore up domestic support has a shelf life.
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He has a reputation as a pragmatic strongman and enjoys good relations with Russia and Turkey.
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Ms. Park, 65, the daughter of a former military strongman, has had her presidential powers suspended.
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The strongman from St. Petersburg pops up like Zelig across the broken landscape of U.S. politics.
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That obsession ultimately proved the undoing of the Egyptian strongman, who died on Tuesday aged 91.
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But in this case, Mr. McDermott was not looking for a strong voice, but a strongman.
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The gains in Kandahar have been solidified in recent years by a strongman police chief, Gen.
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Such promises are bold, but few are plausible, given the strongman economist's limited efforts to deliver.
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Khalifa Hifter, has often been said to harbor strongman ambitions similar to those of Colonel Qaddafi.
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Does he still offer praise for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, and value Putin's praise for him?
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"I do think there is a degree of admiration for a strongman, I'm sorry," he said.
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Mr. Xi holds appeal for foreign leaders aspiring to strongman status — President Trump openly admires him.
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Earlier this week, the country's longtime strongman dictator, Robert Mugabe, was ousted in a military coup.
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The former strongman was first detained in April 2011, ending his notoriously corrupt 23-year rule.
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The former strongman was first detained in April 2011, ending his notoriously corrupt 30-year rule.
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Maybe some strongmen are better than others, when Obama&aposs involved with a strongman they&aposre fine.
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Shortly before his death, bin Laden hailed the overthrow and death of Libya's strongman leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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Across the globe, democracy appears to be on the wane and strongman-led populism on the rise.
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Her core supporters relished seeing her with Vladimir Putin, a strong woman standing next to a strongman.
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The voiceover during that sequence suggests the hooded man is a former circus strongman named Rolf Müller.
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This would be Congo's first peaceful transfer of power, and follows 17 years under strongman Joseph Kabila.
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani welcomed Hekmatyar's public return, saying the former strongman would cooperate with the government.
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"He was one of the 20th century's most evil people," Ryan said of the former Iraqi strongman.
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But to many, as one strongman buries another, the Philippines appears to be moving backward, not forward.
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A military strongman, Yuan Shikai, had tried to reinstate the monarchy with himself as the new emperor.
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Trump praised Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad -- who has used chemical weapons -- as better than American leaders.
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We have run as humble citizen-servants in a year of a would-be political strongman (Trump).
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Even some Republicans cannot understand this strange refusal to criticise Russia and its strongman president, Vladimir Putin.
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The proportion of Britons who support a "strongman leader" has increased from 25% in 1999 to 50%.
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Facing another close-fought run-off, Fujimori has tried to ease concerns about her father's strongman legacy.
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Trump has spoken with a mix of qualified admiration, opprobrium and mockery when addressing the young strongman.
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In 2012 Shenouda was succeeded by Tawadros II, who supports the current strongman, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.
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Mr. Trump has praised the strongman leader of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, who publicly endorses vigilante killings.
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And there was Trump's own strongman address—"I alone can fix it"—with its overt authoritarian overtones.
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Strongman regimes such as these do not represent a threat to the domestic security of Western democracies.
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The Russian strongman also said he was keen to try Qingdao cuisine during his time in China.
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The hardline Mr Xi is widely admired in China as a strongman and a fighter against corruption.
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One strongman who has enjoyed tweaking the West for hypocrisy is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey.
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And here comes Fearless Jones, the amiable strongman with fists like hams and a baby's pure heart.
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You might call this loose federation of fellow travelers for the nativist global right the strongman caucus.
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Other Republican lawmakers associated with the strongman caucus embraced Europe's far-right nationalists long before Trump's election.
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Strongman politics are ascending suddenly, whereby elections, some pretense of democracy, are maintained, the form of it.
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Pudzianowski recovered, and Popek shelled up as the strongman threw wide, looping, lumbering hooks through his guard.
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A Strongman is a strength competition that measures your ability to carry refrigerators or pull an airplane.
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He received immediate backlash from critics who saw the meeting as an endorsement of Erdoğan's strongman politics.
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What's more, the strongman caucus is continuing to accrue power on the GOP side of the aisle.
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To save his reputation, the businessman would pay a bribe, or seek the help of a strongman.
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The Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic died during his trial for war crimes at The Hague in 2006.
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Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Uzbek strongman in northern Afghanistan whose militia allied with American Special Operations forces.
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The president has abruptly undermined Israel's security following a phone call with an Islamist strongman in Turkey.
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They express, in surveys and social media, desire for a strongman-style leader and raw majority rule.
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Under Xi Jinping, the strongman Communist Party leader, censorship and control of culture has reached new extremes.
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Step back from all of this and it's clear that thriving countries today won't elect a strongman.
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After toppling Saddam Hussein, Iraq's former dictator, in 2003, America wanted to prevent another strongman from emerging.
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Mr. Hifter, a 76-year-old would-be strongman, began an assault on the capital last April.
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" Trump may see a strongman in the mirror, but Obama scoffed, "We don't look to be ruled.
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Student demonstrations in 1998 triggered events that led the country's longtime strongman leader, Suharto, to step down.
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But the performers, like the strongman Battulga Battogtokh and the slack wire walker Esther De Monteflores, are.
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Or isn't that what everyone experiences when Battulga Battogtokh, a strongman from Mongolia, hefts three women simultaneously?
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But the performers, like the strongman Battulga Battogtokh and the slack wire walker Esther De Monteflores, are.
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We cannot vote for strongman Donald Trump who would turn America into a copy of Putin's Russia.
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Which in turn encouraged religious conservatives to vote rather desperately for a celebrity strongman named Donald Trump.
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That would be midcard strongman Ryback, who forcefully spoke out about WWE's pay practices on his Tumblr.
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President Rodrigo Duterte enjoys good ties with the Marcos family and has often praised the late strongman.
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As Trump continues his grand tour of Asia, he's been cozying up to fellow strongman President Duterte.
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His new exhibition – 1990s – focuses on works he created during the rule of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević.
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And Americans now live in an increasingly polarized world with a strongman leader intent on subverting democracy.
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Let a strongman take the reins, goes the reasoning, and he will show them—whoever they are.
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Cambodia's strongman prime minister, Hun Sen, had threatened a week earlier to teach Mr Sam Rainsy "a lesson".
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What we need is socialism, which is basically giving millions of bureaucrat&aposs strongman powers over their lives.
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"If I'm walking on the street, people recognize me more from 'Game of Thrones' than Strongman," he says.
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Libya has been plagued by violence since the ouster and killing of longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.
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The Russian president is a "strongman" who will face down opposition to a deal at home, he insists.
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Bernard remembers it as a place of permanent persecution during the rule of strongman Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
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Look to the very center of attention and fascination, and you will very frequently find a strongman president.
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To that list add Egypt's strongman, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, to whom Mr Trump has promised "loyal friendship".
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In immature democracies, such institutions are weaker, so a strongman can undermine them quickly, often without much fuss.
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The former strongman, Meles Zenawi, who died in 2012, boasted that the EPRDF's "writ runs in every village".
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There's America as narrated by Republicans: an America broken and in crisis, needing a strongman to fix it.
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Bennett plays the former KGB officer as a shirtless strongman opposite Alec Baldwin as a bumbling President Trump.
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When threatened, authoritarians support strongman leaders who promise drastic, decisive action to cast out outsiders and restore order.
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Some believe he is hoping for Mr Serraj to fail, and then to assume the role of strongman.
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A strongman-style crackdown on the people has never been an effective model for solving Latin America's problems.
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In places like Russia and Turkey, leaders like Vladimir V. Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan employ strongman tactics.
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A woman, held horizontally by two men, is walked up a wall, then carried overhead by the strongman.
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The Cambodian strongman flew to Vientiane on Saturday to hold urgent talks with Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith.
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Khalifa Hifter, a strongman who dominates the east and whose forces have pushed through Benghazi in recent days.
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His regional strongman reputation is blunted and his much-vaunted economic plans have failed to move the needle.
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Khamenei first set his sights on Syria where strongman Bashar-al Assad was on the verge of collapse.
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For starters, Russia's strongman does not want to draw attention to a popular uprising that toppled an empire.
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Obama White House officials weren't the only public figures calling out Orbán's strongman rule; Republicans were as well.
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And Democrats would have failed — yet again — to frame an effective counter-narrative to the President's strongman rule.
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"Brian Shaw has a long way to go, as far as reaching his limits in strongman," he said.
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The PAC is backed by Democrat strongman Manny Ortiz, a big-time bundler for Democratic politicians like Sen.
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Zimbabwe faced a similar fate under Robert Mugabe after land confiscations and strongman rule precipitated a financial collapse.
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They dismiss criticism of Mr. Xi's strongman tendencies, saying centralized power is a sign of prosperity and stability.
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Two of the most important have been collective leadership — rule by consensus rather than strongman — and term limits.
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In 2013, Turkmenistan's strongman president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, fell off a horse while winning a set-piece televised race.
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Mr. Bush declared the election stolen and called for international pressure to make the Panamanian strongman step aside.
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Mr. Yameen, the former strongman president, was recently imprisoned over a graft scandal involving the country's tourism board.
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The former strongman president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, saw his attempt to grab power as prime minister quashed last winter.
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In 1986 she talked her way into the compound of the Libyan strongman Muammar el-Qaddafi in Tripoli.
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The post-Soviet strongman had a problem: The Department of Justice had accused Nazarbayev of gob-smacking bribery.
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Trump is what they call a "platform strongman" — someone who marshals dispersed participants on behalf of centralizing ends.
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To American policymakers, Iran became a parable about the political perils in the fall of a friendly strongman.
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Khalifa Hifter, a strongman who dominates Benghazi and the east of the country, than about the Islamic State.
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Many thought that Trump would embrace isolationism, repudiate American allies and cozy up to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.
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This claim meshed nicely with the Clinton theme that Trump had a man-crush on the Russian strongman.
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Discontented white America can look for a more palatable strongman, a better messenger for its anti-American ideas.
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And the Trump White House will unfortunately only reinforce his mindset as a strongman who has America's backing.
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In Slovakia, they are even taking seats in the Parliament that they aim to replace with strongman rule.
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A video online, one of many showcasing his physical strength, shows him at a strongman competition in 2006.
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His promise to restore order made him sound like the aspiring strongman his critics fear him to be.
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The display of strongman bravado and the resulting adulation are the point, not the meanings of the words.
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The Family — of which Sharlet reports Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are members — is an intensely powerful organization, whose specific vision of Jesus as the ideal "strongman" governs their political theology and who have found, in strongman-sympathetic President Trump, an ideal vessel for their beliefs.
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He has picked an influential Muslim cleric as his running mate in an attempt to undercut his strongman rival.
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Assassination plots reportedly included exploding cigars -- a product favored by the Cuban strongman -- and even a poisoned ballpoint pen.
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During the campaign, he pined for the days of strongman dictators who were able to preserve stability and order.
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In the 19th century, you wouldn't have seen a vaudeville or music hall programme bill without a strongman show.
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Now a slim majority of Turkish voters have just approved constitutional changes designed to make the strongman even stronger.
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Libya has been split into rival eastern and western administrations since the 2011 topping of former strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
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Strongman policies, such as the reintroduction of the death penalty and the recriminalisation of defamation, could be rolled back.
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Mr Karimov was a strongman, Abdumajit concedes, "but sometimes you have to be tough to hold it all together".
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The prime minister, Hun Sen, in power since 1985, will rule as the country's strongman for a while longer.
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" Trump on Syria's strongman president Bashar al-Assad "He's just much tougher and much smarter than her and Obama.
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Propose yourself as the strongman who alone can end this state of crisis and bring back peace and unity.
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Many Chinese, it seems, regard scrapping term limits as a return to the bad old days of strongman rule.
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Dela Rosa has shot to fame thanks to his close relationship with the country's new strongman leader Rodrigo Duterte.
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Petro&aposs critics accuse him of being a populist, pointing to his past support for Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.
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President Donald Trump professes to admire the strongman politics of Russia, and he covets the trade surpluses of China.
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Mr Modi is campaigning as a strongman with the character to stand up to Pakistan for having abetted terrorism.
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Mr Titiev was arrested and jailed for crossing Ramzan Kadyrov, a strongman in Chechnya who commands a small army.
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Hundreds of thousands of educated young people have left Serbia since 2000 after the ouster of strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
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This will be Egypt's ninth national ballot since the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak, a previous strongman, in 303.
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Having no real policies, other than presenting the image of a strongman, is straight out of the fascist playbook.
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And today, Trump is supposed to chat on the phone with his favorite strongman, Russian President Vladimir Putin. 3.
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Or, like Russia, it might suffer a Putinist putsch, with the deep state reasserting control under a new strongman.
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The oil-producing country has been mired in chaos and fighting since rebels toppled strongman Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
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They will both likely agree that the other outsized strongman attending -- Turkey's President Erdogan -- is an emerging problem child.
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"For a lot of women who do Strongman, it's part of who we are," said Gina Melnik of Boston.
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This is not to say he created or leads it, much as Alt-Right activists lionise his strongman style.
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On the right many think that you need to elect some authoritarian strongman who will whip everybody into shape.
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Five years ago, he vowed to rule Libya as a new military strongman, but his progress has been halting.
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Better the flawed, Islamist-tinged strongman than the return of the generals for the fifth time since the 1960s.
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There are Amazonian governments, notably that of the right-wing strongman Jair Bolsonaro, who bristle at outside attention and
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Turkey's strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, consolidated his political dominance in a referendum that boosted the power of his presidency.
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If anything, Filipinos seemed to be looking for a strongman to solve their problems, be it crime or poverty.
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The president's personal rhetoric about Putin hasn't changed; he still refuses to say anything bad about the Russian strongman.
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She also said she met with a Scottish strongman who was the strongest man on earth at the time.
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To riffle though photos of the Russian strongman is to see a plethora of pigments from pewter to persimmon.
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In other words, Berlusconism is alive and well in Italy, even when it means looking abroad for a strongman.
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It is not hard to see a candidate backed by Rafael Correa, Ecuador's former populist strongman, winning in 2021.
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The former strongman had served 12 years of a 25-year prison sentence for graft and human rights crimes.
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A court assassin and strongman slugs and slashes his way through blood-soaked alleys to prove his empress's innocence.
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Mr. Trump's view of policing clearly derives from "Dirty Harry" fantasies, with he himself playing the beloved strongman commandant.
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Both Mr. Dodik and Mr. Covic are strongman leaders who want to further divide the country into ethnic enclaves.
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The last militia deployed in those districts was loyal to a strongman who is also a member of Parliament.
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Ultimately, Mr. Xi will need to decide whether he wants to be a political strongman or an economic reformer.
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His startling agreement to meet with North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un was not run through the State Department.
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They view the strongman as Europe's most accomplished progenitor of the type of illiberal democracy to which they aspire.
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That narrative continues to be pushed by the aspiring strongman General Haftar, in his dealings with the Trump administration.
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His would-be strongman, a heavily tattooed, pierced and bearded man who performs as Titano Oddfellow, had an idea.
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Libya has lacked a stable central authority since strongman Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown by NATO-backed rebels in 2011.
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Many in the west of Libya believe Haftar is planning to establish himself as a military strongman like Gaddafi.
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Ms. Park, the daughter of a long-ruling military strongman, Park Chung-hee, has not agreed to go quietly.
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Earlier this year Bolton had also pushed for a coup in Venezuela against the socialist strongman president Nicolás Maduro.
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Trump would satisfy his own craving for action and his self-image as a strongman disdainful of the establishment.
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There was stretchable Mr. Fantastic, his future wife Invisible Woman, her brother the Human Torch and strongman The Thing.
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"I&aposm not laying any claim to be this kind of a strongman that I&aposm being portrayed," he said.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Thales looks like the European strongman of the defence sector – with some of the pitfalls that entails.
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Jokowi, 57, outperformed his 67-year-old strongman opponent in 21 of the country's 34 provinces, according to CNN Indonesia.
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Philippines election: Why fatigued voters yearn for 'strongman' leader "They told me, 'Geraldine, the body's just a shell'," she said.
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The violence saw the military take to the streets for the first time since the rule of strongman Augusto Pinochet.
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If Eritrea is no longer on a war footing, why does it need a military strongman to keep it safe?
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Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is an Islamist strongman who has been pulling away from NATO and leaning toward Russia.
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In 1974 her mother died in an assassination attempt on her father, Park Chung-hee, South Korea's long-ruling strongman.
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Last December South Africans forced out President Jacob Zuma, a would-be strongman who let his cronies loot the state.
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"Ronald Reagan once, when debating about taxes and addressing the Americans, said, 'Read my lips: no,'" the Russian strongman said.
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The forces of Paul Kagame, Rwanda's Tutsi strongman, had chased them into the rainforests of what was then called Zaire.
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But now, Russia's strongman president is back where he likes to be -- at the center of international diplomacy and attention.
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Trump evokes it every time he speaks of America in decline and voices admiration for the Moscow's strongman Vladimir Putin.
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In a major address in swing-state Ohio, Trump sought to recreate the strongman persona that powered his political rise.
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He can continue to be this annoying, blustery strongman, and we can go down a really dangerous road toward tyranny.
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LIKE many old people new to social media, Hun Sen, Cambodia's longtime strongman, has swiftly gone from sceptic to oversharer.
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Petersen is a former European champion stone-putter, and having a strongman contest at the Motorcycle Jamboree was his idea.
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Asuka could be Braun Strowman, the massive strongman who makes violence look real and is on the cusp of superstardom.
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Langston bounced between heel enforcer and face strongman since his 2012 debut, never getting the time to develop either character.
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In recent months Hofer seemingly swapped his earlier gun-toting strongman persona for that of a gentler, cane-carrying character.
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A short while later, the strongman—face beet-red, veins bulging in his neck—let out a quick, excited yell.
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Tunisia has been praised for its democratic progress since ousting strongman Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in a 2011 uprising.
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These findings cast doubt on the alarming notion that Mr Trump is propelled by a latent yearning for a strongman.
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One Republican, the putative presidential nominee Donald Trump, positively boasts that he will run the economy like a Putinesque strongman.
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The bigger risk comes from the long-term damage a strongman could do to a young democracy's still-fragile institutions.
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Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's once and current strongman president, has vowed to use tourism to help eradicate the country's grinding poverty.
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President Park, daughter of a former military strongman, has had her powers suspended since her impeachment by parliament in December.
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" He worried that one strongman might follow another: "It may be hard in future to remove that person as well.
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Other governments with strongman leaders have also received praise from the US commander in chief, including Poland and the Philippines.
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The typically reclusive strongman reportedly stopped at tourist sites and walked through the city with his security detail in tow.
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Much to just about everyone's surprise, the strongman in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, faces a tough election this Sunday.
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Since Modi became prime minister in 2014, his government has spent more than $700 million on cultivating his strongman image.
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That country is ruled by Rodrigo Duterte, a crude and brutal strongman known as the Donald Trump of the Philippines.
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A would-be strongman is gaining power, but he is unlikely to stabilize Libya, and may ultimately strengthen extremists there.
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Trump and North Korean strongman will kick off their summit with a one-on-one meeting with no staff present.
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While Turkey's strongman Erdogan is still in a much more commanding position than most, June 24 can't come soon enough.
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Cattelan was there, but this time as an oblong nugget-person, making strongman poses with his arms and mean-mugging.
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Nobody really knows what will come next, and it might very well be that one strongman is traded for another.
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Berdymukhamedov, who has been in power since 2006, is keen to present a strongman image, and often pulls flashy stunts.
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Supporters say that, after seven years of chaos, a Qaddafi- or Sisi-style strongman may be exactly what Libya needs.
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" He worried that one strongman might follow another: "It may be hard in future to remove that person as well.
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In "Fallen" men snap pictures of the bloodied corpse of Mutassim el-Qaddafi, the son of the former Libyan strongman.
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Dunya Gul, the brother of Mr. Wafa, said that a local strongman had grabbed the family's land in Paktia Province.
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A president who sticks it to his own team while sticking with a foreign strongman is not worth sticking by.
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His skepticism stood in sharp contrast to the priorities of Mr. el-Sisi, a strongman leader who greatly values appearances.
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The would-be strongman, Khalifa Hifter, launched a surprise attack on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, more than two weeks ago.
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The president then appointed a new prime minister: Mahinda Rajapaksa, a former president who is considered something of a strongman.
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In doing so, he's punctured Sisi's tight grip over the national media and shaken the strongman leader's stranglehold on power.
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The first year included another strongman turned actor, Lou Ferrigno, who played the Incredible Hulk on TV. Ferrigno placed fourth.
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He's meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a leader he's often been compared to for his strongman, nationalist style.
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Trump unchained Everything we know about Trump's behavior suggests that he will view acquittal as vindication of his strongman tactics.
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The historic vote is the first in nearly four decades without former strongman leader Robert Mugabe on the ballot paper.
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Official political prisoners don't exist and there are no posters of the strongman lording over the streets of Belarusian cities.
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The protests morphed into the largest antigovernment demonstrations since a popular uprising toppled the Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 193.
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In Venezuela, public employees that signed the recall petition against strongman Nicolas Maduro were fired due to their political beliefs.
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Chechnya, the turbulent Russian region led by the pro-Kremlin strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, is carrying out an anti-gay pogrom.
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He succeeds when he looks like a strongman; his opponents win when they are active and undaunted, energized by hope.
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The appearance of weakness by this central security organization only emboldens the strongman who has led Russia for two decades.
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Ascending to the rank of general in 1983, he effectively became the country's strongman, even though a civilian was president.
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He has also defended Russia&aposs strongman president, Vladimir Putin, with whom Trump has controversially sought to broker closer ties.
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This was not a repeat of 2011, when millions of Egyptians turned out to topple Hosni Mubarak, the former strongman.
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Virtually all had been financed by funds from Petrocaribe, an oil program created by the late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez.
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Longtime strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose presidency presided over the unification of north and south in 1990, was nearly assassinated.
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It's an embarrassing mistake for the strongman president elected on his brash promises to use violence clean up the streets.
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Fonda got a rougher interview from Kelly than Russian strongman Vladimir Putin did during Kelly's short-lived summer news magazine.
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Sisi's supporters say the crackdown was necessary to stabilise Egypt after the 2011 uprising that toppled former strongman Hosni Mubarak.
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Strongman leaders reinforce the legitimacy of each other, as their peoples cheer their own strong leader on the world stage.
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Today's Russia has become even more of an intelligence state after Mr. Putin's almost 20-year tenure as its strongman.
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Opposition protests have been relatively rare in Serbia since the popular unrest that ousted former strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.
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Into the void steps Lopez Obrador, who Krauze worries could rule as a "caudillo" or strongman after his landslide win.
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Facebook has struggled to take a clear stance on controversial political content and misinformation, particularly in countries with strongman governments.
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"We will respond politely as always, but we won't back down," said Lega strongman Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister.
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It functions semi-autonomously and is governed by strongman Kadyrov, an appointee and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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A pervasive concern in this country is that Trump admires Putin's strongman authoritarianism, and seeks to replicate it in America.
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Following the war, Rhee's strongman instincts came to the fore, as he declared martial law and made himself president-for-life.
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He's not quite a hero, but the cynical strongman is definitely the only person worth rooting for in this twisted match.
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Although the strongman said at the time that he was in good health, his surgery scar was nothing short of gnarly.
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Yet, the strongman eventually bowed out of the construction projects, giving way to China advancing towards further dominance over the region.
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It's unclear if the State Department was aware Obama would be publicly comparing the Russian president to the toppled Iraqi strongman.
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Raziq's strongman tactics had been credited with repulsing successive Taliban attempts to gain a foothold in Kandahar, once their spiritual heartland.
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Venezuela was once the envy of Latin America, until a long stagnation in living standards brought a populist strongman to power.
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Major opposition protests have been relatively rare in Serbia since the popular unrest that ousted former strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.
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It is more likely to shatter a fragile UN-backed transition and boost Khalifa Haftar, the strongman who rules the east.
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The former US president criticized "strongman politics" and the denial of facts in what many interpreted as indirect critiques of Trump.
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Fresh from an election victory, the Turkish strongman now seems poised to take even greater control of monetary and fiscal policy.
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That election was also a contest with Prabowo, former son-in-law of military strongman Suharto who was overthrown in 1998.
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"Are we going to teach these terrorist consorts another lesson on June 24th?" the Turkish strongman asked at a recent rally.
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With the courts, press and armed forces in his pocket, a strongman can set about neutering every other institution that counts.
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During his first decade in power, Turkey's strongman offered the Kurds new cultural rights and launched peace talks with the separatists.
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The Turkish strongman initially tried to place the blame for the visa row on the American envoy to Ankara, John Bass.
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The chairman of Zamalek SC, one of its top clubs, is a staunch supporter of Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's strongman.
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Even when a confident strongman is on top, it is worth keeping an eye out for forces bubbling under the surface.
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Furthermore, the president-elect has cozied up to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a strongman who's positioned himself as NATO's arch-antagonist.
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He was certainly a loyal defender of his father-in-law, Suharto, a strongman whose 983-year rule ended in 1998.
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Philippine credits moved sharply towards the end of last week on expectations that Davao strongman Duterte was on course to win.
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Pete Heller: The best pre-house clubbing was probably Mud Club for me, at Busbys, with Jay Strongman and Mark Moore.
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Compared to him, Rodrigo Duterte, also known as "Duterte Harry," the controversial strongman president of the Philippines, is a spring chicken.
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Melnik and other women succeeded in changing Strongman rules in February so that new mothers can quickly return to the sport.
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This is just the latest piece of evidence against Bannon's being some kind of charismatic strongman who should not be crossed.
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And then there was Joe Greenstein, aka The Mighty Atom, a Polish-born American strongman and one-man Nazi wrecking crew.
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The elites were blamed for the resulting chaos, and the masses were ripe for a strongman to return order to society.
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Beyond their ideological differences, Mr. Trump, a populist right-winger, and Mr. Chávez, a leftist strongman, share the same telegenic vocation.
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President Park, 65, daughter of a former military strongman, has had her powers suspended since her impeachment by parliament in December.
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Saleh: A longtime strongman Saleh rose to power as part of a military coup, becoming president of North Yemen in 1978.
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Strongman leaders in both sought full reunification of the Peninsula under their rule, and in 21950 tensions spilled over into war.
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Florida Democrats reacted to Republican legal maneuvering by comparing Scott to a strongman striking out at the infrastructure of the vote.
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Instead, and especially under the strongman leadership of Xi, China has stuck to market economics but clamped down on political freedoms.
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The 75-year-old former general thinks Libya is not yet ready for democracy and that it needs a strongman—himself.
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Strongman systems are by far the likeliest form of government to collapse, more so than even the world's most oppressive states.
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Instead, Mr. Xi has proved to be a strongman who now appears intent on at least partially undoing Deng's political legacy.
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Conversely Egypt, under military strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi since 1003, has consistently achieved economic growth double its 2.1% population expansion.
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President Donald Trump wants to punish Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons against his own people last week.
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Mr. Putin's strongman style and warnings against Western decadence attracted more and more conservative admirers in the United States and beyond.
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He is often described as a strongman, and he has been criticized by the international community for a slew of abuses.
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This adherence to the prototypical image of the macho strongman is made all the more intense for the company he keeps.
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Serbia had ruled the predominantly ethnic Albanian province since the late 1980s, when its former strongman, Slobodan Milosevic, revoked Kosovo's autonomy.
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The airport reopened Tuesday after closing the day earlier, following an airstrike there by the forces of an aspiring strongman, Gen.
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Takeaway: Mr. Modi fits the mold of the political strongman, and many such figures have risen to power around the world.
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Ramzan Kadyrov, the Russian republic's strongman leader, even criticized the Kremlin's inaction, in a departure from his usual praise for Moscow.
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Nasser had consolidated his power as Egypt's new strongman, giving neither men nor women the right to exercise a meaningful franchise.
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"Strongman leaders want to de-universalize human rights and civic liberties," says Carothers, who has served on various O.S.F. advisory boards.
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Just 100 yards away is the ornate palace where Egypt's president, the military strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, welcomes foreign dignitaries.
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But it also reminded the world exactly who Erdoğan is: a strongman willing to be reckless to achieve his political ends.
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Blasphemy cases were rare during former strongman president Suharto's 32-year reign, when there was little tolerance for hardline religious groups.
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The old-school Mujahideen strongman fought against the Soviet invasion of the 1980s and kept fighting well into the next millennium.
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Evidence, they say, of Russia using its favorite new form of proxy contractor to bolster the Libyan strongman of the east.
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Opponents also argue that it reverses liberal reforms enacted after democracy was restored in 1998, when strongman leader Suharto stepped down.
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This year may be different, as the opposition is more unified, fearful that Mr. Modi is becoming a Hindu nationalist strongman.
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Rappler gained traction with the rise of Mr. Duterte, a political strongman who came to power amid a wave of populism.
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He is now trying to change the constitution, raising fears he is trying to usher in an era of "strongman" politics.
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The popular fervor for a strongman in Europe and, evidently, in the United States is depicted surprisingly well in the prequels.
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With biceps as big as my head, a broad chest and a sizeable beer belly, he resembled an old-timey strongman.
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He broke his silence to admit his admiration for how former South Korean strongman Park Chung-hee had dealt with student demonstrations.
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He criticized NATO, spoke of possibly recognizing annexed Crimea as part of Russia and heaped praise on Vladimir Putin, Russia's strongman president.
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But now, experts say, the family is weak and awaiting a strongman to either take it over or replace it by force.
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In the story, the strongman George Marchant is taken to see Vulcanus, who is able to perform feats hitherto unimaginable on stage.
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Whether by faking it through theatrical techniques or through training in weightlifting clubs, being a strongman was a lifetime's work of practice.
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Trump sees its president, Vladimir Putin, as an admirable strongman who shares America's interest in destroying ISIS and could be a partner.
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At the same time, the Cuban strongman ruled his country with brutal force, responding to political opponents and dissidents with firing squads.
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For example, among Christians (including Catholics and Orthodox) with roots in Lebanon, there is often an intense wariness of the Syrian strongman.
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Lacking the military strength to pull a fractured country together, he said he was the place-warmer for a strongman, Yuan Shikai.
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Western governments are especially concerned that the return to power of wartime nationalist strongman Rajapaksa could endanger halting steps toward national reconciliation.
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The biggest shock was his choice of prime minister: Mahinda Rajapaksa (pictured), a charismatic strongman who was president from 2005 to 2015.
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Hun Sen, the country's strongman, has been in charge since 1985, making him one of the longest-serving leaders in the world.
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Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are running on the theme that they are "The Man" — the strongman — who can magically fix everything.
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Whether he's with business titans or dictators, life is much easier when you can parcel out the world with your strongman friends.
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US President Donald Trump drew criticism after he congratulated Putin on his win, with commentators accusing him of applauding a political strongman.
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Despite having some of the world's greatest intelligence agencies at his disposal, Trump instead prefers to believe whatever a strongman tells him.
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Italy's populist strongman Matteo Salvini threatened to sue EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker for damages Tuesday for talking down his country's economy.
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Yes, it was cool that Lesnar kicked the gimmicked cage door open, but note who didn't get his usual crazy strongman spot.
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In the Gambia, the threat of an invasion by neighbouring countries forced a strongman to accept that he had lost an election.
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NO ONE batted an eyelid earlier this year when Turkmenistan's strongman, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, was "re-elected" with nearly 98% of the vote.
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The changes are aimed at luring back investors who withdrew funds from Egypt during the 2011 uprising that overthrew strongman Hosni Mubarak.
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The strongman is now using that popularity to help anoint candidates who will blindly support his policies over the next three years.
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The public was sold and swept in the self-styled man-of-the-people over his military strongman opponent, Prabowo, now 67.
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Always interested in personal power and essentially devoid of any commitment to democratic ideals, Trump is naturally inclined to be a strongman.
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Mr Duterte's tough talk and strongman tactics have not dented his popularity at all—in fact, they seem to have boosted it.
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The move came after the strongman reportedly said in a speech that he would "sell" himself to help bail out Egypt's debt.
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John McCain criticized the public pivot, reiterating his criticism Tuesday and saying the Syrian strongman was likely emboldened by the recent comments.
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At the time, Somalia was being ripped apart by clan warfare after the downfall of its former strongman ruler, Mohamed Siad Barre.
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While some US allies, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, gravitated toward his strongman leadership style, others, principally in Europe, have been horrified.
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It is now a party led by a demagogic, authoritarian strongman whose rhetoric compares with the authoritarian, anti-democratic strongmen of history.
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Many, from Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang to the ayatollahs in Tehran sighed a sigh of relieve.
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But many in Manila too, with its gun violence, its traffic jams and its creaking infrastructure, were attracted to the strongman message.
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At home, he has ruled as a strongman with no tolerance for dissent, and methodically removed nearly all checks on his power.
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One, Turkey's finance minister, is the son-in-law of its strongman president and oversees his country's relationship with the United States.
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In that New Year's Day speech, North Korea's strongman said that Washington must first lift sanctions before he will do anything else.
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The book and numerous southern newspapers helped grow the man's reputation, and Jackson played into the role of a swashbuckling, swaggering strongman.
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But by the end of the film, it all seems to be unravelling, with much of the country nostalgic for strongman rule.
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One time strongman As the former head of Barisan Nasional, Mahathir served 22 years as the country's leader before retiring in 2003.
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He also enthusiastically embraced a constitutional amendment designed to trim executive powers, and so to prevent the return of a strongman president.
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Both Putin and Erdogan share a similar "strongman" stance towards leadership and both have overseen a revival in conservative, nationalist domestic politics.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump was "betraying" and "deserting an ally in a foolish attempt to appease a foreign strongman."Sen.
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We can show the world we value what the strongman most fears and seeks to repress: compassion, justice and our common humanity.
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Many Iraqis do not see it that way, and feel that the return of strongman rule might at least keep them safe.
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The choice to miss it, despite his "warm rapport" with Filipino strongman Rodrigo Duterte is "horrible, to be quite honest," Kazianis says.
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If not, the world's growing number of strongman leaders will focus on their own agendas, ignoring the dangerous divisions they are creating.
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President Maithripala Sirisena's government had criticized the previous administration of strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa for leading the country into a Chinese debt trap.
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And while Macron is an ardent defender of liberalism and democracy within Europe, he can sometimes speak the language of the strongman.
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He is distrusted by many in the west of the country who see him as a new military strongman in the making.
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And yet Trump's support for Libya's would-be strongman is perfectly consistent with the president's own track record—and past US practice.
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Despite these disadvantages and more, Russia has nonetheless has managed to exert an outsize influence on the world via its strongman president.
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To the Editor: Re "Francis, the Anti-Strongman," by Paul Elie (Sunday Review, March 25): Pope Francis's persona belies a dictatorial penchant.
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It signaled mounting despair over the economic disaster that has befallen the nation under the strongman rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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"I want to make it very clear: these people are not afraid of Albanians, but Serbs, local strongman and criminals," he said.
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And it raises the question of who will stand up for freedom as the Age of the Strongman rolls forward, unopposed. ☐
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But Mr. Sisi has sometimes shown sympathy for Mr. Assad as a fellow strongman defending the status quo and fighting political Islam.
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One plane was chased down the runway by thugs of a strongman late for the flight, furious it had left without him.
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Sri Lanka's opposition party, led by the former strongman president Mahinda Rajapaksa, held a news conference and denounced Dr. Nandakumar by name.
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Latin America's experience — with voters pulling their countries between periods of fuller democracy and populist strongman rule — may be the natural default.
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One of the factors in the resurgence of strongman rule is a new American silence on abuses, our correspondent in Cairo writes.
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The vote is widely seen as the latest effort by a strongman to consolidate power as the trappings of democracy fall away.
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Looking ahead: President Trump could be forced to pick between Russia and Turkey, whose strongman leaders have enjoyed warm relations with him.
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Today's Russians seem to be less and less impressed by the show of strongman leadership at home and Russia's military might abroad.
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When strongman politicians deploy violent speech in castigating dissenters and critics as "traitors", street mobs become emboldened to carry out physical attacks.
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Equally puzzling was the alacrity with which so many of the same Egyptians welcomed a new strongman a few short years later.
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As Mr. Trump condemned Venezuela strongman Nicolas Maduro as "a tyrant who brutalizes," and Ms. Pelosi initially appeared expressionless, one man scoffed.
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He intersperses all this with stories from a mad old pirate, a former circus strongman and, by my count, 28 imaginary books.
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The men, Sot Vanny, Chay Sarit and Mao Hoeun, admitted in court that they belonged to self-styled strongman Hun Sen's bodyguard.
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Speaking after his victory was confirmed, the strongman leader didn't rule out constitutional reform in order to run for the presidency again.
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You described it earlier as this strongman really taking flight, not just here in Southeast Asia or here in Asia but globally.
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Zimbabwe's president on Friday announced that the country's longtime former leader and strongman, Robert Mugabe, has died at the age of 95.
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Few leaders have displayed Ms. Merkel's adroitness in handling swaggering, strongman leaders, whether it is Mr. Putin or Silvio Berlusconi of Italy.
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In Slovakia, neo-fascists are winning regional offices and taking seats in the multiparty Parliament they hope to replace with strongman rule.
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The switch to local currency car sales follows the death of strongman ruler Islam Karimov last year after 27 years in power.
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This remains a chastening demonstration for advocates of democracy and freedom everywhere that strongman rule still has a chilling appeal to many.
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If nothing else, the roller-coaster World Cup ride has offered a pointed lesson to Egyptians conditioned by decades of strongman rule.
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When a strongman leader in the US can shirk accountability, it sets an ominous example for the rest of the democratic world.
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It is Syrian dictator Assad and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin who engage in massive bombing deliberately intended to kill masses of civilians.
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Björnsson himself is also beloved for standing nearly seven feet tall, weighing 395 pounds, and breaking world records as an Icelandic Strongman.
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They're trying to assuage the fears of mainstream America — and particularly political elites — who see Trump as a disruptive would-be strongman.
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The mysterious warmth between Donald Trump and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin was one of the odder elements of the 19993 presidential race.
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He is also the new Roderick Dhu: a brash, intransigent strongman -- not at all a statesman -- who demands absolute loyalty from his followers.
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The revolution that toppled strongman President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 brought a resurgence of Islamists, whom his military regime had repressed for decades.
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Merkel used small talk to neutralize the Kremlin strongman, and then later imposed economic sanctions on Russia that the country could ill afford.
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Western governments are especially concerned about Libya, where Russia may be aiding Mr Haftar, a secular strongman in the mould Mr Putin prefers.
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Since Venezuela's economy began to slump in 2014 under Nicolás Maduro, a socialist strongman, perhaps 2.3m Venezuelans have sought refuge in neighbouring countries.
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Meanwhile, street protests erupted in Venezuela this week after opposition leader Juan Guaido called on the military to abandon socialist strongman Nicolas Maduro.
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Think only of Iraq's appalling ex-president, Saddam Hussein, the quintessential Sunni Arab strongman; or of Egypt's flawed leader, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.
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Aliev, who vocally opposed the Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead the next morning by hotel staff.
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In the comics, Müller was a circus strongman in pre-World War II Germany, as well as a serial killer who targeted children.
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The public was sold and swept in the self-styled man-of-the-people over his military strongman opponent, Prabowo Subianto, now 22014.
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"(He) has a really inflated, if not delusional, view of himself as a strongman at the level of China and Russia's leadership," Sen.
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Russia-linked outlets are better funded and in many cases more trusted than local competitors, which have suffered under longtime strongman Alexander Lukashenko.
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Speculation inevitably begins whenever a former AK luminary says something even mildly critical of Turkey's strongman, and dies down when nothing else follows.
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Yet over the course of a presidential run in which Mr Trump expressed bizarre, fawning admiration for the Russian strongman, Republican opinion flipped.
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But the next chapter of the U.S.–Turkey alliance will be shaped by the unpredictable dynamics of strongman diplomacy between Trump and Erdogan.
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Mr Trump proposed something much more stirring: to take protection of the homeland into his own hands, as a sort of vigilante strongman.
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They declare that, on the evidence, Mr Trump has probably crossed the line from rough-around-the-edges populist to would-be strongman.
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This is how the Russian strongman rules his country and a tactic he has energetically sought to export to others, including our own.
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But for now Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the current strongman, has "rebooted" the patriarchy—and been embraced by a large number of Egyptians.
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" The former strongman also urged the current authorities not to use him as a "political weapon" since he had "no forces to resist.
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In the Middle East, leaders get Trump because they recognize a kindred spirit: A strongman with a predilection for events going his way.
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It also fueled the perception that the U.S. allows Turkey's leader to bring strongman tactics with him when he visits the U.S. capital.
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Critics say the reforms risk undermining democratic safeguards put in place after World War Two to prevent the rise of a new strongman.
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The downfall of Bashir follows the toppling this month of Algerian strongman Abdelaziz Bouteflika, also following mass protests after three decades in power.
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With another marquee name to market, the Madison Square Garden strongman James L. Dolan is less likely to kick over office wastepaper baskets.
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A native of Minsk, Belarus's capital, Mr Sheremet made a name for himself by covering political repression under that country's strongman, Alexander Lukashenko.
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Matiullah Khan, the former police chief and strongman who largely kept the insurgents at bay, the province's security leadership has fallen into chaos.
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This, in large part, was because James, the de facto franchise strongman, didn't choose or approve Blatt as coach in the first place.
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The state remains isolated as ever from the international community and the strongman knows how disastrous a strike against his regime could be.
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Durbin said Tuesday that Trump's actions mirror the tactics of strongman dictators who silence the press and critics to consolidate their own power.
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"The more people are afraid, the more it plays into Trump's hands because they will want a strongman-type president," Ms. Blocker said.
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Both Iran and Russia support Syrian strongman Bashar Assad, who has committed atrocities against his own people in that country's bloody civil war.
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So it was a surprise when the strongman announced in August he would be stepping down and an election would finally take place.
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Haftar styles himself as a strongman capable of ending the chaos that has gripped Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
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Zimbabwe elections The polls are open in Zimbabwe for an election that will be the first without strongman Robert Mugabe on the ballot.
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Instead, she let her brother — one of two that she's already marked for death — walk away and had her zombie strongman fridge Missandei.
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It faces a major challenge from eastern-based strongman Khalifa Haftar, who is aligned with the House of Representatives (HOR) in the east.
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Today, a large minority is still protesting in the streets for another strongman to rise and end the theocratic reign of the Ayatollahs.
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The background: Since strongman Alberto Fujimori's election in 1990, Peru's political parties have served primarily as vessels for individual leaders to get elected.
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"One reason behind Trump's phone call is that Haftar's army has revealed itself less powerful than the Libyan strongman had claimed," Harchaoui said.
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Nonetheless, leaders around the world have publicly and privately congratulated Russia's strongman as he embarks on his 18th year as head of state.
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Last year, in keeping with a global trend toward strongman rule, Ugandan lawmakers changed the Constitution, allowing Mr. Museveni to rule for life.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - After beating a steady retreat since the end of the Cold War, the African strongman is on the comeback trail.
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Last week, the favorite was Braun Strowman, a former strongman and a legitimate physical freak billed at 6-foot-8 and 350 pounds.
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Both have experienced the simmering fury of constituents nonetheless, suggesting that popular sentiment still plays a role in the era of strongman leaders.
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The downfall of Bashir follows the toppling this month of Algerian strongman Abdelaziz Bouteflika, also following mass protests after two decades in power.
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And experts put particular focus on Mr. Chávez's anti-establishment, strongman tendencies — something that is not particular to left- or right-wing leaders.
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Although Mr. Abe shares some of Mr. Trump's right-leaning philosophies, he is not the sort of strongman leader Mr. Trump often admires.
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But instead of the new elections he wanted, the populist strongman has found himself dumped out of government and facing plummeting poll ratings.
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It comes amid the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, where the corrupt regime of strongman Nicholas Maduro remains firmly ensconced despite America's best efforts.
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And his growing control over economic policy — he installed his son-in-law as finance minister — has investors nervous about his strongman approach.
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As it stands, we're told spectators will only be allowed at 2 events all weekend -- Friday and Saturday night's bodybuilding and strongman events.
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"Italy first" is the slogan of Matteo Salvini, the head of the nationalist Lega party and the undisputed strongman of the new administration.
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He added that President Barack Obama would not allow Sisi to visit the White House over that issue, which infuriated the military strongman.
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Though he occasionally rhapsodized about strongman rule ("Maybe we'll want to give that a shot someday"), Trump rejected the basic theory of engagement.
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As Egyptians prepare to bury Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian strongman, they are faced with the complex task of reckoning with his legacy.
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Hope for peace following failed talks Instability has reigned in the North African country since the fall of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
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He compared the president to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, saying Trump also would like to create a "mafia state" that suppresses individual rights.
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Protestantism first came to Korea in the 19th century with American missionaries, but its political influence dates from the time of strongman rule.
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Even would-be strongman Khalifa Haftar is weakening, dependent on uncontrollable militias and watching security crumble in the largest city under his control.
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Francisco Franco in Spain and the Portuguese strongman António de Oliveira Salazar were American allies right up until their deaths in the 1970s.
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The chaos intensified this year after rebel strongman Khalifa Haftar began marching on the United Nations-backed unity government in Tripoli in April.
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But the reform-era strongman Deng Xiaoping advised China to "hide our capacities and bide our time" on this and many other issues.
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Mao-style strongman rule is still a danger, but there is little risk of a return to the mayhem of the Cultural Revolution.
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The Syrian strongman, meanwhile, told Portugese media that Trump could be a "natural ally, together with the Russians, Iranians," if he fights terrorists.
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The U.N.-backed administration is also under pressure from rivals in the east of the country, where forces led by the strongman Gen.
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The problem is that the strongman is perhaps not as strong as he seems and that's the dilemma for those who support him.
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Obama used the remarks to warn against the rise of "strongman politics" and the "utter loss of shame among political leaders" who lie.
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Trump has also often been strangely solicitous of Russian President Vladimir Putin, praising his strongman ethos and gravitating toward him at international summits.
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Tens of thousands have joined the biggest rallies since 1998 student protests fueled unrest that led to the fall of former strongman Suharto.
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But senators have a clear response to Erdogan that's at odds with Trump's friendly rhetoric toward the strongman leader: Don't count on it.
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They are more open to a strongman leader who might not heed the legislature or judiciary, but who promises a more orderly society.
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Leadership: Trump acted from his gut, swayed yet again by a phone call with a foreign strongman -- this time Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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The AU's current chairman, a ceremonial but symbolically important figure chosen by the body's assembly, is Idriss Déby, the oil-fuelled strongman of Chad.
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The strongman syndrome Almost half a century ago, Harvard University professor Samuel Huntington observed a counterintuitive connection between accelerated economic growth and political polarization.
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Supporters of African democracy cheered when its strongman, Yahya Jammeh, conceded defeat in the country's presidential election just days before the vote in Ghana.
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Trump has continued to praise and never publicly criticize Putin, the strongman leader of a country where vocal opponents are mysteriously poisoned or die.
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He ended up in America, where he signed on with a circus and continued his work as both a strongman and a child killer.
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Manuel Noriega, a strongman who ruled Panama in the 1980s and then spent 17 years in an American prison for drug-trafficking, has died.
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The Drollingers were flying to Managua at the behest of Daniel Ortega, the country's strongman president, who had invited them down as his guests.
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Mr Modi went on to campaign for multiple re-elections as a strongman who could save India from a vague but sinister Muslim threat.
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We should never allow ourselves to get to a place where we've got a strongman at the top and the poor have no power.
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Go deeper: Brazil election pits "Tropical Trump" against leftist establishment Polarized Brazil votes for a strongman Brazil's presidential election cleaves along sharp ideological lines
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Some of his strongman policies, such as the re-introduction of the death penalty and the re-criminalisation of defamation, may be rolled back.
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Washington backs Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido in his bid to push strongman Nicolas Maduro from power, while Moscow is supporting the Maduro regime.
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He says he will "get along very well" with the Russian strongman Vladimir V. Putin, whom Mr. Trump has praised as a strong leader.
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Doc's crew is composed of a Wall Street ex-pat turned common criminal (Mad Men's Jon Hamm) and a trigger happy strongman (Jamie Foxx).
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ONE DAY after the opposition announced its final push to oust Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's strongman was determined to show he was back in control.
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Hailemariam was the handpicked successor of Meles Zenawi, the former strongman whose 17-year rule ended abruptly with his death from cancer in 2012.
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Put together, it's increasingly clear Maduro will employ strongman tactics to stay in control, and it doesn't look like Guaidó's side can stop him.
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Simultaneously, the strongman who has helmed Russia for the better part of two decades endorsed the hacks as being in his country's best interest.
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In front of the decked out dads is their daughter, Harper, dressed as a bearded lady and their son, Gideon, dressed as a strongman.
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Trump's election and presidency have helped create a "strongman model" that has reverberated around the world and fueled an increase in violence, Vincent said.
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But it can also start a civil war, or lead to a new dictatorship as the next strongman builds his own networks of power.
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In its effort to avoid a repeat, the current government, led by the strongman Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, has gained a reputation for brutality.
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In the west, particularly the port of Misrata, many Libyans despise him as a remnant of the old regime and a would-be strongman.
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Read: Why Trump is cozying up to strongman leaders "The conduct of Turkish security personnel earlier this week is deeply disturbing," the official said.
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He's consistently stood up to him, calling him a "megalomaniac strongman" and refusing to say whether or not he even considers Trump an adult.
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To hide human rights abuses, Equatorial Guinea's strongman hired Qorvis; the pre-revolutionary Tunisian regime hired Washington Media Group and the Saudis hired Edelman.
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One clip also shows him saying the world would be "100 percent" better if Hussein and Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi were still in power.
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Since becoming leader of Russia, Vladimir Putin has staged numerous stunts to mark himself as a strongman who will lead his country to greatness.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen to portray himself as a patriotic strongman who will lead his country to greatness on the world stage.
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To some, the operation was reminiscent of Egypt's attempt in 1984 to fake the murder of a leading opponent of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
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But as he rose to power, he adopted fascist rhetoric and policies, stirred racist resentments and called for a strongman to lead the nation.
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Are Cruz and other Republican leaders comfortable with supporting a would-be strongman as long as Trump stops short of actually committing violence himself?
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Trump knows in some cases meeting the American President is a way to make progress by paying the strongman respect he thinks he's due.
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Meanwhile, one of the big winners of the Brexit vote was Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, who has praised Trump and whom Trump has praised.
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In part, the attacks offered a harsh critique of the White House's policy in Libya, following the ouster and death of strongman Moammar Qaddafi.
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Kurz takes a considerably harder line on immigration than German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and is friendly with Vladimir Putin and Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán.
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President Trump has sought to negotiate with North Korean strongman Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnPompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests State Dept.
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In the years after Mr. Putin started his Chechen war in 1999, he had Chechnya's leaders killed and imposed peace via a local strongman.
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"We have seen a number of other leaders emulate that strongman model," she said, name-checking the Philippines, Brazil, Serbia and Malta as examples.
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Meanwhile, 40-year-old Pudzianowski is also back in the fray, taking on fellow former Polish strongman Tyberiusz Kowalczyk in the co-main event.
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In a call last week, President Trump appeared to go against his administration's previous position, and backed the country's strongman: Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.
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In the show, young lovers carouse, deceive each other and give into seduction amid sword swallowers, a strongman, a fire eater and a contortionist.
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The enduring political crisis in Thailand mirrors a rollback of democracy throughout much of Southeast Asia, where strongman rule and military power have resurged.
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In recent years, Mr. Erdogan has broken from the reformist path while forging new alliances, especially with Russia and its strongman leader Vladimir Putin.
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In 2014, he met with Russia's ambassador to the UK and, when asked which politician he "most admired," he pointed to the Russian strongman.
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What's more, Trump's elevation of Putin — as a world leader on par with that of the US — is exactly what the Russian strongman wanted.
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"The major problem is that Xi Jinping holds power in China, and he is a strongman," Mr. Choy said, referring to China's top leader.
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Uganda's strongman president for the past 21.9 years, Yoweri Museveni, had called the meeting in his compound to try to resolve the bitter dispute.
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Mr. Rajapaksa is considered the strongman of Sri Lankan politics, a wealthy, powerful former president who has been accused of grave human rights abuses.
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The Russian strongman certainly seemed to be angling for the role when he hosted Kim Jong-un at a summit in Vladivostok this week.
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Mr. Salvini's tough immigration policies and his image of Italy's strongman are appealing to Italian voters: 30 percent would now vote for the League.
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It is what we might call a partyocracy — a quasi-strongman leader empowered only because the independently elected legislators from his party empower him.
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In the annals of Africa's many uprisings and coups, the script often involves the strongman fleeing into exile or being imprisoned or even shot.
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On June 22013, Turkey will vote to elect a president with immensely increased powers that will replace the country's parliamentary democracy with a strongman.
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Haftar began his attack on Tripoli last year in the latest round of fighting in Libya since the 2011 toppling of strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
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With his re-election and officially expanded powers, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken his place among the world's emerging class of strongman rulers.
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Ever since Mr. Trump jumped into political life, Washington has scratched its collective head over his curious affinity for the strongman of the Kremlin.
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The anticipated landslide victory of strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his right-wing Fidesz party has national populists across Europe uncorking champagne bottles.
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Haftar's administration, in eastern Libya, has often been at odds with the GNA in Tripoli, since the fall of Libya's strongman leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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Some versions of that longing, at least, picture more of a benign unifier than the kind of authoritarian strongman Iraq has become known for.
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The ultimate blame for the attack on Tajoura lies with Khalifa Hifter, a Libyan strongman fighting to topple the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli.
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He described the strongman as an independence hero and "father of development," who safely navigated his country through the tumult of the Cold War.
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The North Koreans interpreted Bolton's suggestion as a threat as former Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi was ousted and killed years after agreeing to disarmament.
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Chaos intensified even more this year after rebel strongman Khalifa Haftar began marching on the United Nations-backed unity government in Tripoli in April.
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Today, too, behind a seemingly resurgent Russia and its strongman leader lies a weak and fragile Russian state that may prove Lenin prescient again.
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The police under President Hosni Mubarak, the strongman who ruled Egypt for almost three decades, largely kept sexual assault out of the public eye.
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Turkey's strongman assumes that the U.S. will not push back on his policies by leveraging its arsenal of Global Magnitsky designations, sanctions, and fines.
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"I feel many of these chief executives are responding to a public longing for a strongman, or woman, a strong leader," Mr. Gergen said.
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Robert Mugabe, the former political prisoner, first black leader of an independent Zimbabwe, and unrepentant strongman, has died, the nation's current president announced Friday.
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Nobody will ever rate these interviews, however, in the same category as CBS reporter Daniel Schorr's cold war interview with Soviet strongman, Nikita Khrushchev.
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Sisi's supporters say tough measures were necessary to stabilize Egypt after the turmoil that followed the 2011 uprising that toppled former strongman Hosni Mubarak.
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Stanislav Micev, the museum director, characterized Mr. Kotleba's message as "fascism with elements of Nazism," mixing Mussolini's strongman rule with Hitler's demonization of minorities.
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An Egyptian prosecutor has ordered the release of Hosni Mubarak, the strongman who led Egypt for 30 years until he was overthrown in 2011.
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Democrats have used the comparison to their advantage, claiming that, like Putin, Trump would be an authoritarian strongman if elected to the White House.
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Trump has vehemently denied all accusations of collusion, but he's also confounded allies and opponents alike with his frequent praise of the Russian strongman.
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He's gone now and so is the idea of inevitable liberal democratic convergence, replaced by great power competition in the age of the strongman.
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Clinton, wife of popular ex-president Bill Clinton, and bolster Mr. Trump, widely seen as an aspiring strongman with whom Putin can do business.
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The strongman Mr. Marcos closed down television networks and newspapers during his two decades in power, and he jailed many opposition figures and journalists.
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Now the Philippines is stuck with an offensive, authoritarian strongman for a leader — at a pretty important geopolitical moment for the country and the region.
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The latest is an Italian model called HyQReal, which demonstrates its aspiration to winning strongman competitions, among other things, by pulling an airplane behind it.
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As his country's economy implodes around him, Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro has resorted to what may be a last-ditch effort to stay in power.
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All the while, the authoritarian government of President Nicolás Maduro maintains a tight grip on power through propaganda, strongman tactics, and increasingly desperate economic ploys.
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The daughter of a former strongman, who spent all of her life in the public eye, Park was never going to be a normal President.
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"Yesterday&aposs strongman is today&aposs lame duck," Kemal Kilicdaroglu said on Tuesday, even as he refused to reflect on his own party&aposs shortcomings.
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Circus strongman turned tomb raider Giovanni Belzoni openly declared his goal "to rob the Egyptians of their papyri" — texts that he found among mummy wrappings.
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He did not address Trump's actual Russia policies, let alone ways in which this administration has not just appeased, but cozied up to, Moscow's strongman.
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Sirisena's choice for prime minister, former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, lost two no-confidence votes in Parliament but continued to hold the office with Sirisena's support.
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" Many took aim at Trump's alleged cozying-up to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin with signs that read "Happy President's Day President Putin" and "My President?
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The congressman, a former army officer, is riding high in the polls with his strongman promise to crack down on Brazil's rampant crime and corruption.
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Mr Lacalle, who promises a revamped police force with a "strongman" presence on the streets, hopes to pick up their supporters in the second round.
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Since nearly the beginning of Trump's campaign, numerous writers have identified his strongman impulses — and disregard for constitutional norms — as one of its key features.
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Yet admirers such as Mr Duterte and Hun Sen, Cambodia's strongman, are adept only at the authoritarian bit, without the clean government or wealth creation.
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In the full glare of the world's media the strongman, Chun Doo-hwan, could hardly beat them all up as past practice would have demanded.
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Tunisia has emerged as a political model for democratic change in the Arab world since its 2011 uprising against strongman Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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The fallout contributed to the election in 2014 of Narendra Modi, India's strongman leader, who pushed an agenda of Hindu nationalism, clean government and development.
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The Monday vote is widely seen as a referendum on Duterte's presidency, which has been defined by his strongman tendencies and deadly war on drugs.
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It took the death in 2016 of Islam Karimov, the strongman who had led Uzbekistan since Soviet days, to bring the chaikhana back to life.
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At the beginning of this decade, Myanmar was a focus of hopes for democratic progress in Southeast Asia, a neighborhood long marked by strongman regimes.
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Religious violence surged after the overthrow of Suharto, Indonesia's long-serving strongman, in 1998, but then appeared to dissipate; it is again becoming more common.
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Enrique Krauze, a leading historian and essayist, is sure that, if elected president, Mr López Obrador would seek to accrue the powers of a strongman.
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The main opposition to the government of Hun Sen, Cambodia's strongman of 32 years, it and its precursors have long been subject to official harassment.
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In Cambodia, in anticipation of elections in July, the strongman, Hun Sen, has snuffed out the last of the free press and abolished the opposition.
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During his press conference with Mr Tsipras, the Turkish strongman linked the opening of the seminary to the rights of Greek Muslims in western Thrace.
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But having been an adviser to deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Philippines strongman Ferdinand Marcos, Manafort surely recognizes a coup when he sees one.
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Manafort had a track record of improving the public reputations of corrupt dictators, like Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and Zaire's military strongman Mobutu Sese Seko.
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"At least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country," Trump said of the Russian strongman on Morning Joe way back in 2015.
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That's no doubt why so many business leaders are wary of Trump: They know that blustery strongman tactics ultimately don't work well in today's world.
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Trump prepares for critical week of diplomacy Sisi, a former general and the kind of strongman leader Trump admires, wants more than just goodwill, though.
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Erdogan, an authoritarian strongman who has imposed heavy censorship and successfully jailed his enemies, a trend that has increased in prominence aggressively ever since 2016.
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Beyond the fact that the President's family has two "Trump Towers" in Istanbul, Erdogan is also the sort of strongman leader the US president admires.
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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's war on vice is expanding, as the popular strongman politician looks to stamp out one of the country's most popular habits.
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Here Trump laid the groundwork for crisis in his campaign as he praised strongman Vladimir Putin and refused to acknowledge Russia's interference on his behalf.
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Strongman and actor Hafthor Bjornsson -- aka "The Mountain" from 'Game of Thrones' -- picked up a barbell weighing 1,042 FREAKIN' POUNDS ... and it's straight-up ridiculous!!
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Things were supposed to be different in Zimbabwe after its former strongman ruler, Robert Mugabe, was deposed in a bloodless coup in 173.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Things were supposed to be different in Zimbabwe after its former strongman ruler, Robert Mugabe, was deposed in a bloodless coup in 2017.
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Nowhere is the poisonous mix of demographic stress, political repression and economic incompetence more worrying than in Egypt under its strongman, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.
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The end result is a crisis of moral authority, and even of amoral authority; this is a society that cannot even produce a proper strongman.
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They have rules and structures and norms precisely because power is so dangerous when it is wielded by a lone strongman or by a mob.
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But as Russia's latest strongman enters his late 60s and Russia begins to ponder who might follow him, he seems equally desperate to be feared.
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During his decades in power, Mahathir ruled as a strongman leader and frequently used the draconian Internal Security Act to go after critics and enemies.
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That includes materials preparing Trump for some of his higher-stakes meetings with leaders, including with the Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte, who he's never met.
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Frank Bruni In his bid for the White House, Donald Trump is playing many roles: law-and-order strongman, sky's-the-limit builder, dealmaker extraordinaire.
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And if all that happened was that Putin helped Trump win the election, to these folks that says only good things about the Russian strongman.
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A former mayor of Mexico City, Lopez Obrador is a leftist, nationalist politician who at times has been compared to former Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.
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Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban won a landslide third consecutive term in power Sunday, cementing his place as the leading figure among Europe's right-wing nationalists.
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But with two straight losses and a 40th birthday coming up, that career and the great strongman-turned-MMA-fighter experiment are reaching their conclusion.
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Regional powers have sided with opposing camps that have vied for power in Libya since the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran strongman leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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Critics say the measures will strip Italy of democratic safeguards put in place after World War Two to prevent the rise of a new strongman.
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Weighing in at almost ten pounds, it's perfect for a holiday dinner party, or just for yourself, if you're on a 20,000-calorie Strongman diet.
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When they are scared, they seek out strongman leaders and support harsh, punitive policies against immigrants and other outsiders — much as Mr. Trump has done.
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There's just one problem with Trump's strongman-ing: Some U.S. defense officials were unaware of any attack and were caught off guard by Trump's statement.
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Two figures stand out in assassination lore: Fidel Castro, the Cuban strongman, and Rasputin, the wild-eyed, deeply reviled monk who influenced Russia's last czar.
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Yet, whether he is seeking reconciliation or pitching for strongman status, his mere presence is a rebuke to the elites who got him badly wrong.
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Takeway: Mr. Modi fits the mold of the political strongman; many such figures have risen to power around the world, from the U.S. to Turkey.
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Egypt's strongman grows stronger: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been granted new power over the judiciary and Parliament after a heavily stage-managed referendum.
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Deputies from Rajapaksa's party rejected the voice vote as illegal, saying it wasn't scheduled and that the pro-China former strongman would remain in office.
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Mr. Jiménez was eight years old, living in the small city of El Tigre, when the military strongman Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998.
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Mr. Jiménez was eight years old, living in the small city of El Tigre, when the military strongman Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998.
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Muammar el-Qaddafi who broke with him to become a C.I.A. client — announced in 2014 that he intended to restore order as a new strongman.
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According to the Organization of American States (OAS), approximately 5,000 people a day are now seeking refuge abroad from Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro's socialist dictatorship.
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Turkey's strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, suffered a landmark defeat in the race for the mayoralty in Istanbul to a tirelessly upbeat campaign by Ekrem Imamoglu.
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During an acrimonious race focused more on character than on policy, Netanyahu campaigned vigorously on his strongman "security-first" platform, familiar to voters over decades.
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The release of cables regarding the Tunisian strongman Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali are often credited with helping to inspire the uprising in that country.
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