strongman
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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
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
Darwin Silva, 37, came to collect the remains of his mother, who died in the Hugo Chavez social housing complex, a flagship program of the late strongman leader.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
I think about that whenever a strongman tries to own what we had on those fields.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Sheed looked like a circus strongman lifting his one-handed.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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
It was a fitting conversation for two strongmen, who have described each other as best friends, and who, after a combined 39 years in power, show no signs of stepping down.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
According to experts who study the psychological profiles of strongmen dictators, escalation in such situations is the norm.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
The moment also marked a victory for the son of Cuban immigrants who has long sought to confront the hemisphere’s strongmen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
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
