The strongman at the time proclaimed to be ushering in a new kind of socialism.
The strongman has promised him safe passage to his meeting with the king in Siem Reap.
With independence came two of Latin America's lasting political scourges: militarism, and the caudillo, the strongman.
For a decade, Venezuelans have been force-fed the strongman's view of economic nationalism laced with this divisive language.
The strongman stage was at one end of the convention center, elevated above the crowd and flanked by enormous video screens.
They had to grapple with the same problem of political succession: how to institutionalise authority after the death of the strongman.
Yet suspicion of the old caudillismo, the rule of the strongman, remains.
When the strongman final began, a huge wooden frame, roughly bolted together out of barn timbers, was carried out and placed at one end.
The interests of the U.S. and U.K. are better served by improving relations with the strongman and cutting more deals to go after oil, not fewer.
The strongman rules an oil-rich nation that exports 1.1 million barrels of oil to the United States per day, which amounts to 14 percent of our total oil imports.
As the chief crony during Marcos's 20-year reign, Cojuangco acquired a fearsome reputation as an astute political adviser to the strongman and a resourceful businessman who gobbled up large corporations.
Business associates and extended family were driven out with the strongman in 1986, and during the presidencies of Corazon Aquino and Fidel Ramos they were most unwelcome in corporate and political circles.
In the elevator at the hotel on the last night, I heard a groan and looked over to see Travis Ortmayer, the strongman from Texas, doubled over with his elbows on his knees.
Yet it can often be worse, for the strongman, with his rigged press and gagged courts, gains a form of international approval and even money adding to the frustration, and perhaps eventual violence, of his subjects.
There is a smell in that, as in his view of Congress and the courts, of the old Latin American caudillo the strongman who believed himself indispensable, and acted to ensure that he remained literally that, irremovable except by a coup.
Early in March, I went to see Shaw defend his title at the Arnold Strongman Classic, the heaviest competition of its kind in the world.
Even if there were no drugs on board the Ocean Atlas, finding undocumented weapons gives the Venezuelan strongman an opportunity to make political hay.
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In the former Yugoslavia, the late strongman Josip Broz Tito tried to minimize and loosen communal and religious loyalties in a bid to forge a wider sense of nationhood.
He contends that many troops remain loyal to General Prabowo Subianto, Suharto's disgraced son-in-law, as well as to General Wiranto, the military strongman who currently serves as Wahid's Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs.
Neither had been favored by the revolutionaries responsible for toppling Mubarak -- and some fear a win for former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik will mean the ousted strongman's regime lives on in a different guise.
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Mahmud Durrani, a former Pakistani general and a past ambassador to Washington during the era of strongman Pervez Musharraf, backs up the charge.
Germany, the Euro Zone strongman, is borrowing just like the other constituent states making up those sharing the common currency, a lower amount, but borrowing none the less.
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Since the longtime Yemeni strongman Saleh stepped down in February, the American drone strikes and airstrikes have increased.
The former military strongman was placed under house arrest over the weekend in connection with a different case, which involves his decision to fire senior judges while in power.
The former military strongman stepped down from power in 2008 following the threat of impeachment by Pakistan's main political parties.
Although the lifts vary from contest to contest, the most popular strongman events and records are now well established, and the latest feats circulate instantly on YouTube.
He noted that many people in the eastern part of the country feel marginalized after decades of underrepresentation and neglect during the rule of strongman Moammar Gadhafi, whose power base was centered in the capital city of Tripoli.
In a stinging, point-by-point indictment of the regime of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, the paper calls on the Bush administration to repair its neglected and strained relationships across Latin America, and to work with neighboring democratic governments to ensure that the regime cannot consolidate itself or threaten its neighbors.
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An aide to the former military strongman, Rashid Qureshi, said officials in Chitral, near the Afghan border, accepted Musharraf's nomination papers.
Authorities have not linked Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to any insurgent groups, and the Kremlin-backed strongman who now leads Chechnya says the brothers got their inspiration in the U.S., not the troubled region in southern Russia.
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