Sentence examples for first strongman from inspiring English sources

Three months later, Shaw won his first strongman event.

The first such strongman competition took place in 1977 at Universal Studios in Los Angeles.

But a conviction that once promised to deliver a triumph for the rule of law in Egypt and the Arab world — the first Arab strongman jailed by his own citizens — instead brought tens of thousands of Egyptians back into the streets.

He said that Alberta had chosen the "best of Canada's heritage a combination of American enterprise and individualism with the British traditions of order and co-operation" while Canada "appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country led by a second-world strongman appropriately suited for the task".

The Economist has an editorial penchant for showing up third-world strongmen in a way that brings out their ridiculous pretensions and helps us right-thinking folks in developed countries to look on them with suitable scorn.Mr Putin is different.

A visibly disturbed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla). said Saturday that Trump's rhetoric reminded him of "third-world strongmen" and further seemed to back away from his vow to support the future GOP nominee, whoever he may be.

Even so, the placing of the strongman first on Trump's list and the subsequent sequencing of his calls raises some questions.

The cost of clamping down on the protests was a loss of legitimacy, and the emergence of Amin al-Hafiz as the first Ba'athist military strongman.

Inch was an early-twentieth-century British strongman famous for his grip.

Indeed, the Qaddafis are not even the first among African strongmen to have flirted with the film world.

Max Sick, a great early-nineteenth-century German strongman, had such complete muscle control that he could make the various groups twitch in time to music.