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.
The strongman stage was at one end of the convention center, elevated above the crowd and flanked by enormous video screens.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
An aide to the former military strongman, Rashid Qureshi, said officials in Chitral, near the Afghan border, accepted Musharraf's nomination papers.
Ajit Pawar resigned partly to show independence from his uncle, the ageing NCP strongman, Sharad Pawar.
Even if Mr. Musharraf is allowed to run in the upcoming election, the impact of his party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, is expected to be minimal because of the perceived lack of support for the former military strongman.
Omar Suleiman, the intelligence chief of deposed strongman Hosni Mubarak, formally entered the race just hours before the deadline, said Hatem Bjato, who heads the election committee.
Is he a modernising democrat - one of the best that the Middle East offers - or is he gradually imposing a socially conservative agenda and is he a strongman in the making, uncomfortable with dissent?
Two years after the ouster of long-serving strongman Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is in the throes of a full-blown economic crisis.
The family of former strongman Ferdinand Marcos, for example, still has not paid its arrears, despite a supposedly final ruling in 1999.
But even Panamanians who cheered the 1989 U.S. invasion that overthrew strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega consider the completed handover a point of national pride.
Mende said the arrested men also had links to former Congolese strongman Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the country, then known as Zaire, for more than three decades.
Whether a Latin American-style strongman would point the economy the right way is doubtful.
Injuries, sometimes devastating, are almost intrinsic to strongman contests: the inevitable product of extreme weight and sudden motion.
Relations between Egypt and the UAE soured after Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak - a longtime Gulf ally - was toppled in Egypt's 2011 revolution.
Mr. ElBaradei, 68 years old, is a Cairo native with a history of standing up to Egypt's previous strongman governments even before the rule of President Hosni Mubarak.
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