Sentence examples for turned president from inspiring English sources

The entertainer turned President Michel Martelly came to power as an underdog in a disputed election.

Vaclav Havel, the dissident turned president, last used it during the Russian-Georgian War in 2008.

No ceremony was stinted in saying goodbye to the actor turned president.

Mikheil Saakashvili, the New York-educated lawyer turned president, has a predilection for bold initiatives.

He even turned President Bush's epithet -- "evil-doers" -- back onto the West.

The country was raped by the warlord turned president Charles Taylor, who is in exile in Nigeria, and who, like other warlords in Liberia, used children as soldiers.

Again, this was long before Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman turned president-killing into a viable theatrical theme.

Mr. Kagame is a bit different from the typical African general-turned-president.

AFTER overthrowing his close friend in a bloody coup d'état, Burkina Faso's captain-turned-president, Blaise Compaoré, has held power for more than two decades.

LONG-LEGGED beauties in G-strings; fashion models in thigh-length red boots; even Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen warlord-turned-president, sporting a diamond-studded belt.

Mr Bush repeated an earlier demand that Charles Taylor, Liberia's warlord-turned-president, spare his country further bloodshed by taking up Nigeria's offer of comfortable exile.