Many Kurds now worry that a strongman may once again be emerging in Baghdad.
But for Colombia to progress it needs strong institutions rather than an eternal strongman.
Irn Bru was first sold in 1901, when Highland strongman Adam Brown featured on the label.
Strongman events tend to be exaggerated versions of everyday tasks: heaving logs, carrying rocks, pushing carts.
The strongman has promised him safe passage to his meeting with the king in Siem Reap.
Even non-Arab oil states, such as Angola, Russia or Venezuela, seem vulnerable to strongman rule.
Whether a Latin American-style strongman would point the economy the right way is doubtful.
Ajit Pawar resigned partly to show independence from his uncle, the ageing NCP strongman, Sharad Pawar.
With independence came two of Latin America's lasting political scourges: militarism, and the caudillo, the strongman.
The four decades long rule of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi appears to have finally run its course.
Imelda Marcos, the well-shod wife of a former Filipino strongman, attributed her seemingly ill-gotten wealth to it.
Travis Ortmayer, a strongman from Texas, took a pass and dropped to the bottom of the ranking.
Strongman Augusto Pinochet removed price controls, privatized government companies and the social security system, and increased trade.
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Since the longtime Yemeni strongman Saleh stepped down in February, the American drone strikes and airstrikes have increased.
Injuries, sometimes devastating, are almost intrinsic to strongman contests: the inevitable product of extreme weight and sudden motion.
In 1989, troops loyal to Panamanian strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega crushed a coup attempt by junior officers.
Mahathir ruled as a strongman as did his contemporary to the south, former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew.
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Leaders in Rwanda and Angola, two other booming strongman states, should take note.
The former military strongman stepped down from power in 2008 following the threat of impeachment by Pakistan's main political parties.
Two years after the ouster of long-serving strongman Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is in the throes of a full-blown economic crisis.
After some hiccups, his bid for reconciliation with Transdniestria and its veteran strongman, Igor Smirnov, seems to be making progress.
The strongman stage was at one end of the convention center, elevated above the crowd and flanked by enormous video screens.
An aide to the former military strongman, Rashid Qureshi, said officials in Chitral, near the Afghan border, accepted Musharraf's nomination papers.
Slobodan Milosevic : Until last week he was Serbia's strongman since seizing power on the crest of a wave of Serbian nationalism.
Tyler Stickle, a twenty-four-year-old strongman from nearby Lakewood, took the first walk.
After economic woes helped topple Indonesian strongman Suharto, Anwar and his supporters decided that Mahathir, too, might be ready for early retirement.
Well, Saddam Hussein was a strongman in Baghdad, a particularly bad one.
The family of former strongman Ferdinand Marcos, for example, still has not paid its arrears, despite a supposedly final ruling in 1999.
Yet suspicion of the old caudillismo, the rule of the strongman, remains.
Like that other dethroned strongman, Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, he used his podium, twinning his own plight with that of his nation's perceived humiliation.
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