Strongmen

An autonomous Ukrainian nation with its own language and culture ran counter to the imperial ambitions of Russian strongmen.

Like other strongmen, he presents himself as a persecuted savior of a disenfranchised sector of society that sees its traditional values and mores as under attack.

Trump could have taken steps to set fears to rest: about his potential corruption, about his treatment of women, about his scattered compliments of foreign strongmen.

What I’m hearing from you is that strongmen are great storytellers.

What's most likely to happen - the strongmen will talk like they're hyping up before Wrestlemania ("Ooooo Yeah, when the 28 inch pythons wrap around your neck.

But is this the America we seek as a country, a regime of strongmen arrogantly displaying this strongarm policeman like a circus animal as they salivate in anticipation of their post-inaugural payday?

Fortunately, as is the case with pretty much anywhere ruled by these freedom-loathing strongmen, X is also currently banned in Venezuela.

His support for antidemocratic strongmen like Mr. Putin emboldened human rights abusers all over the world.

Organised by local strongmen Kaleem Niazi and Paddy Haynes, the innagural Oxfordshire’s Strongest Man and Woman competition will see athletes from around the county compete for the title.

The ruling party came in and pulled all the right levers to entrench their power, to ensure they could act as strongmen without real checks from the other branches, and cow everybody in their party into obedience.

And what you end up doing is you get these strongmen who are coming in and saying, none of this is working.

Does Nigeria need strongmen or strong institutions?

However, the rise of Donald Trump and his affection for strongmen provides an opportunity for the Kazak regime, and they want to use Borat as their messenger.

Meanwhile, the UAE, fearful of Arab democracy, strives to expand its influence by aiding and abetting dictators and strongmen throughout the region.

Some believe that we need strongmen like Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad to bring order to the Middle East.

Strongmen in Russia, Turkey, Egypt, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and other nations have many people disturbed about their countries’ future.

There has never been a shortage of strongmen to indulge this impulse, and regardless of the ethics or efficacy of their solutions, their power persists long after the storm has passed.

Warnings about the stigma of justice corrupted by strongmen leaders have long been a core US criticism of nations in the developing world.

All strongmen should be this weak.

But on the campaign trail, Mr. Biden has been critical of Mr. Trump’s approach to strongmen like Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Mr. Kim.