Sentence examples for eccentric leader from inspiring English sources

Three years on from the revolution that ousted the country's eccentric leader, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, Libya remains paralysed by factional, regional, tribal and ideological divisions.

· Earlier this year, the eccentric leader announced he would provide citizens with natural gas and power free of charge until 2030.

"The president never said we were lazy," said El Ouerghi, who like others in the house spoke fondly about the eccentric leader who drives a Volkswagen Beetle.

The bigger worry is that this week's pyrotechnics will incinerate wider efforts to stabilise a region full of dangerous rivalries.With its medieval economy and eccentric leader, the Hermit Kingdom often seems more tragi-comic than threatening.

Then, in what he calls one of his proudest achievements, he became the first Indonesian president ever to be voted out of office -- replaced last October by an equally eccentric leader, the voluble, half-blind Muslim cleric Abdurrahman Wahid.

The presidential election there was a farce: Mr Rakhimov bullied what was left of the independent media, then won a two-man fight against a straw candidate who happened to be his own minister of forestry.Kalmykia's Mr Ilyumzhinov wins the prize for being Russia's most eccentric leader, which is saying something.

North Korea has given the world ample reason to ask: threats of war, occasional attacks against South Korea, eccentric leaders and wild-eyed propaganda.

PARIS — The Swiss government reacted blandly on Friday to the latest rhetorical sally from the eccentric Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who called on Thursday for a "jihad" against Switzerland.

Having seen the handwriting on the wall with the fate of Saddam Hussein, and having failed after an effort of almost a decade to return himself to the West's good graces, the long ostracized, infamously eccentric Libyan leader unveiled one of his splashy measures to try to ensure that he does not suffer a similar fate.

Lenny Abrahamson's comedy-drama stars Michael Fassbender as an eccentric band leader who never ceases to wear a giant papier-mache head.

It almost appeared that Belarus's eccentric and autocratic leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, had cause for re-election concerns.