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The tragedy triggered some of Serbia's largest protests since the fall of Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, at times drawing hundreds of thousands.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

It advocated for greater freedoms and rule of law even as those notions fell increasingly out of favor with a populace willing to embrace a strongman ruler to end the post-Soviet economic malaise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Clayton led the office during high-profile matters including the prosecution of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro on narco-terrorism and drug-trafficking charges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

The court had determined that the strongman had given Chey 30bn Korean won from his slush fund in 1991, and told Chey to pay 1.38tn to his ex-wife.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Gina sets her arms into a strongman pose and shouts, “Bring it!”

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

They knew that Roman strongmen like Marius and Caesar had been products of democracy—demagogues lifted up by the passions of the crowd.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Fabrizio Foschini, a researcher at the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said during earlier decades of war "mining mainly benefited insurgent groups, including the Taliban, and local strongmen with links to corrupt government officials".

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

But the alliance between the children of two former strongmen presidents soon unravelled as they pursued separate political agendas.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

“Especially in a city of refugees like Miami, a lot of people have escaped dictatorships and strongmen who’ve shut down dissenting opinions,” said Costantini in an interview Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

I hadn’t seen it while they were sitting, but now that they were moving it was painfully obvious they were church strongmen.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss