His fearsome rule, from 1982 to 1990, has been largely forgotten in a region where other strongmen and conflicts have since monopolized the news.
Yet even his most severe critics say he has developed significant popular support, in part because of the clear changes that have accompanied his firm and fearsome rule.
There a fearsome queen ruled, and she worshipped the sun.
Dormer is miscast as the governess, Mrs Appleyard, a fearsome matriarch who rules with an iron rod, and despite the many flourishes of film-making style, every lingering slo-mo shot, jarring anachronism or hallucinatory dream-like sequence implying some deeper meaning ends up falling rather short.
TED was founded in 1984 by author and design guru Richard Saul Wurman Richard Saul Wurman, a fearsome Falstaff (Shakespeare rules at TED) who created an annual salon for the smart and the hip.
The dedication reads, "For H.P. Lovecraft, with all my conflicted feelings," and LaValle's short novel is in fact a subversive reimagining of Lovecraft's 1927 story "The Horror at Red Hook," in which the fearsome creatures who ruled the earth before humanity are (perhaps) preparing for a comeback in Brooklyn.
Set three years after the conclusion of "Chapterhouse," "Hunters" finds its protagonists still adrift on that no-ship, armed with technology capable of resurrecting many of the long-dead heroes of the earliest "Dune" novels, including Paul Atreides, a powerful psychic and a prophetic figure known as the Kwisatz Haderach; and his son, Leto II, a fearsome tyrant who ruled Arrakis for 3,500 years.
One hundred years ago, she was the fearsome German warship that ruled the waters of Lake Tanganyika; today the MV Liemba serves as the world's oldest passenger ferry.
The drafters of the constitution understood that the tyranny of the majority could be more fearsome and destructive than the rule of an autocratic despot.
(By contrast, the monochromes of Robert Ryman and Brice Marden, for all their excellence, could seem like pupils furtively whispering in the back of a classroom ruled by a fearsome teacher).
