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
I think about that whenever a strongman tries to own what we had on those fields.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
AFP was given rare access to the competition, held at an equestrian complex in the capital Ashgabat and presided over by strongman president Serdar Berdymukhamedov, Gurbanguly's son.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
"He has shaped the image of the first populist president, the first acclaimed strongman of the 21st Century."
From BBC ● May 30, 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 may set an example for other strongmen too: Max is now available for download in dozens of countries allied with Moscow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
According to experts who study the psychological profiles of strongmen dictators, escalation in such situations is the norm.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 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
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
