Sentence examples for as strongman from inspiring English sources

Allawi, a man better incarnated as strongman, operative or exile, was not very good at dealmaking.

After the general's death in a plane crash in 1981, things went from bad to worse under his successor as strongman, the corrupt and brutal Manuel Noriega.

At first the sadistic secret-police chief Lavrenti Beria emerged as strongman, until he was overthrown and shot in a plot hatched by Nikita Khrushchev.

President Bashar al-Assad had learned from his father, Hafez, the air force commander who ruled Syria as strongman for three decades and knew perhaps better than anyone that time was a tool.

Here's one thought: much of U.S. policy in Iraq -- delaying elections, trying to come up with a formula that blocks simple majority rule, trying to install first Mr. Chalabi, then Mr. Allawi, as strongman -- can be seen as a persistent effort to avoid giving Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani his natural dominant role.

These gangs embraced human smuggling, initially by working as strongmen for sophisticated international syndicates.

At first this brought more conflict as strongmen like Congo's Mobutu Sese Seko, an American protégé, fought for their lives, some with weapons from privatised Soviet armouries supplied by Viktor Bout, a Russian arms smuggler.

It is also a significant morale boost for the embattled Syrian strongman as well as the Kremlin.

And what village better fits the bill than a sleepy Polish shtetl before World War II? "Invincible," which opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles, follows Zishe Breitbart, a Jewish blacksmith, as he leaves Poland to perform as a strongman in Weimar Berlin.

Mr. Shafik has campaigned as a strongman who can restore order and hold back the Islamists.

His reputation as a strongman does not seem to bother him.