strongman
Example Sentences
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Ghalibaf has posted video showing him piloting aircraft and became famous as mayor for riding his motorcycle, cultivating a strongman persona that some Iran watchers have compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
His low-key approach, say some papal observers, has made it harder for him to make himself heard in a wider world that’s being shaken up by populism, strongman leaders and raw power politics.
In fact he is the opposite — a domineering strongman who seeks to bully everyone around him into compliance.
From Salon
But how many prisoners and which ones are released has become a bellwether of the country’s future after the removal of its strongman leader.
Kononenko was a competitive strongman as well as an actor who starred in popular Ukrainian TV programmes.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
