While he has dismantled Niyazov's personality cult, he has maintained an authoritarian leadership style and has adopted the honorific title of arkadag – protector.
What such small-state liberals fail to see is that the "over-mighty state" can be a protector as well as a threat to our liberties.
Collider suggests Captain Marvel could replace Africa, a proposed biopic of the real-life fossil hunter turned protector of elephants Richard Leakey, on the Oscar-winning actor's film-making slate.
Law and Justice presents itself as a protector of those who have not benefited from the capitalist transformation and as a defender of national interests abroad.
It's like the team has spent the northern summer rearranging its collective hector protector, before getting knocked out with a punch to the face.
He found a useful protector in John of Gaunt, who was, in effect, running the country at the time, and kept him out of serious trouble, at least until the bones thing.
Governments present themselves as the protector of our privacy, but as the NSA story demonstrates, governments present the greatest threat to our privacy as they have the means both to surveil us and to use our information against us.
Meanwhile, Hungary's president has called Russia a model for political development and began mimicking Putin's policies by instituting reforms that many call anti-democratic, imposing greater state involvement in key sectors of the economy, promoting government based on "Christian values" and claiming to be the protector of ethnic Hungarians in other countries.
With his track record of espousing reconciliation – as mayor of Nicosia's Turkish-controlled sector, Akinci collaborated closely with his Greek Cypriot counterpart on a number of projects in the capital – the new Turkish Cypriot leader is seen as the one man willing to take on his pariah state's protector and economic mainstay: Turkey.
How much of your liberty do you yield to your protector?
Thuli Madonsela, South Africa's public protector.
