Sentence examples for strongman of from inspiring English sources
Abdul Rashid Dostam, the strongman of the northern provinces, is an Uzbek.
TONY BLAIR'S advice (TBA) has done little to change the ageing strongman of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
A week ago, it was Ahmed Wali Karzai, President Hamid Karzai's brother and the strongman of Kandahar.
The Hungarian prime minister, Tisza, who had opposed the war in July 1914, became the strongman of the empire.
The session was dominated by Pierre Laval, Pétain's vice premier, who was already emerging as the strongman of the government.
In May of that year, massive protests forced the resignation of Suharto, the country's strongman of over 30 years.
The strongmen of today become the spark of revolution tomorrow.
Apollon's Wheels were named for one of the great strongmen of the nineteenth century, Louis (Apollon) Uni.
He rejected comparisons made of him to two other former strongmen of the Middle East, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya (killed) and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt (imprisoned).
During a season of collapsing authoritarian governments, Mr. Nazarbayev stands as testament to the forces protecting the strongmen of the former Soviet states.
FOR years the strongmen of north Africa and the Middle East told their Western supporters that they were all that stood between the Arab world and an Islamist takeover.
