Clearly Mr. Noer is not a strong man, or he would not have made such comments.
As a result, Mr Hashimoto's image as a strong man has taken something of a battering.
Chuck Burkhard of Windber, Pennsylvania, hopes history will remember Bush as a strong man who loved his country.
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There was no alternative, it was said then, and a strong man was needed to hold Congo together.
Yet for Father Dimitry, Stalin had also been the strong man Russia needed.
At a time when the Liberal MPs were all strongly individualistic, it took a strong man to ensure discipline, and Cyril did well in the role.
He is the strong man of the company, no doubt.
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But some of his relatives say Ram Singh was a strong man who, even after the 2009 accident, did not quit driving because a rod had been inserted into the damaged arm.
So far, the prime minister's plans for streamlining the troubled finance ministry, not to mention deregulating Japan's hide-bound financial markets, have depended critically on having a strong man like Hiroshi Mitsuzuka as finance minister.
The world will have to either wait for a strong man to pacify the country or for some terrorist outrage, likely by Al Qaeda, that -- as with Afghanistan -- will force a massive international response.
The opportunity was an awesome one, and the income was needed to provide for our family, but it was painful for me to leave because my nieces would no longer have the presence of a strong man in the house.
That is why Dr Mahathir's blend of western politics and Asian strong-man is so potent.
Fortunately for him, nothing in his strong-man routine bothers Russia very much.
But he is a strong, principled man and I know if he gets the job at a future date he will have laid down the ground rules first.
In the Gospels, Saint Joseph appears as a strong and courageous man, a working man, yet in his heart we see great tenderness, which is not the virtue of the weak but rather a sign of strength of spirit and a capacity for concern, for compassion, for genuine openness to others, for love.
And I thank you personally, Mr. President, because you are a man of strong convictions.
What, to the strong, was one man more or less in a crowded world?
Next, say his admirers, and Mr Brown himself, he is a man of strong values, derived from his Presbyterian background.
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So has Ali Larijani, the speaker of the parliament and a man with strong family connections to the highest levels of the religious hierarchy.
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"He is not a conformist, he is ambitious, a winner, an authentic man with strong feelings and he wanted to come to Barcelona, " he said.
And in fact, all research indicated that the fact that he was a man of strong faith, albeit Jewish, was not a detriment to the ticket at all.
Revelations about his response to medical problems have marked him out as a man of strong character, which has been so much in question because of widely publicized accounts of compulsive womanizing.
Liking "Kathy Griffin, " "Juicy Couture, " or the musical "Wicked" were found to be strong indicators that a man was gay, while liking sports-related topics, "Bruce Lee" and "Being Confused After Waking Up From Naps" were more popular with straight men, according to the the study.
"The journalist Nir Rosen got into Baba Amr (which is closed) and told me that several groups of Western journalists are entering illegally through Lebanese borders -- including a French and German delegations, " Khaled al-Ahmed, a man with strong ties to the Assad regime, wrote in November.
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Women with careers are VERY strong women, and it takes an even stronger man to be with such a strong woman.
There is also a strong residual loyalty to the man who dominated Indonesian politics for so long.
Some say that the man bears a strong resemblance to Lee Kuan Yew.
But Mr Rove is the most powerful presidential adviser in recent history: a man who combines a strong political vision (creating a Republican majority) with an unparalleled knowledge of political mechanics.
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