Sentence examples for for a strongman from inspiring English sources

In Tashkent officials say the chaos only underscores the need for a strongman rule.

"I do think there is a degree of admiration for a strongman," Corker said.

Gillard said anxiety in the community was also "feeding this hankering for a strongman".

Was that a signal of dark secrets, or just of a soft spot for a strongman?

Here, too, the implication is the same — Pakistanis are unable to govern themselves — and dovetails with the emerging demand for a strongman.

That disenchantment has given voice to a cliché that is nevertheless espoused: the desire for a strongman who can break through the government's paralysis.

The passion for equality, he warned, could swell "to the height of fury" and lead many to acquiesce in a curtailment of their liberties, and to long for the rule of a strongman.

Over the past year, we've seen a consistent trend in both the United States and Europe of conservative admiration for Putin, a strongman praised for his decisive leadership, Christian values and old-school nationalism.

In the United States, centrists' support for a strongman-type leader far surpasses that of the right and the left.

His empire soon spread to the eastern plains, where he bought up huge areas of ranch land while gaining a name for himself as a strongman.

"If he comes out as a strongman for reform, then his peers will feel threatened".