Sentence examples for under one strongman from inspiring English sources

Tyrannies may look stable under one strongman; but they can slide into instability, even bloody chaos, if a transition goes awry.

That's one strongman in place of another.

8. Trading One Strongman for Another Saddam Hussein was a bad guy.

Though one strongman had been dispatched of, another made in his image had grabbed hold of the country and was repeating a cruel historical pattern.

The past year and a half has been a testing one for strongmen such as yourselves all across the planet.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power on a strongman platform, not a democratic one.

Hadi, a former general, as well as a former vice president under longtime strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, fled from house arrest and arrived in Aden on Saturday.

At that time, Liberia was reeling from more than two decades of civil war that had plunged the country into chaos under the strongman Charles Taylor.

CAIRO — Despite the burgeoning of private, independent media since President Hosni Mubarak's ouster a year ago, there is less freedom of expression under the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the current military caretaker  government, today than there was under the strongman of Egypt.

South Korea, under strongman Park Chung-Hee, focused on building up large economic champions, or chaebols (business conglomerates), against American advice to focus on small- and medium-sized companies.

Next door in Libya, 2014 was defined by the actions of another would-be strongman – one who had considerably less success.