Strongman.

Are you a strongman? I've got a cinema.

In Portland will fight Harvey Baker, a strongman with jaw butter.

Holland's strongman. One of two signers of the Dutch treaty with the Belgians.

AFDL forces are accused of pursuing anyone suspected of helping the Mai Mai and one of its leaders, Commander Strongman Kagame , is accused of ordering their execution2 (3 December 1997).

When the insurgency became intractable, America installed an Iraqi government. The man chosen to lead it was a protégé of the CIA with a reputation for being a strongman a far cry from democracy.

Emasculating the elected presidency, which is Russia s sole source of political legitimacy, would pave the way to chaos. The habit of changing the rules to keep power would persist after the strongman eventually leaves the scene, but the superficial stability of his rule would not.

But during the Cold War, authoritarian capitalism, usually under military regimes, was anti Communist and very much on America s side. South Korea s strongman, Park Chung hee, current President Park Geun hye s father, was in many ways a pioneer of the type of society that we now see in China and Russia.

Qatar s leaders are willing to challenge their neighbors for a simple reason They believe that the grassroots Islamist movements they support which, in their view, represent majority political aspirations eventually will win. Anticipating that such groups will increasingly shape Arab politics, displacing strongman regimes, Qatar has set out to empower them.

Meles was certainly both. Ethiopia has undergone a remarkable transformation under his strongman rule since 1991, when his Tigrayan minority group from the country s north came to power with the overthrow of the odious Communist Derg led by Mengistu Haile Mariam (still enjoying a comfortable retirement in Robert Mugabe s Zimbabwe).

That began to change in 2001, when Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, the widow of the assassinated military strongman General Zia, replaced secularism in the Constitution with the Sovereignty of Allah. Encouraged by this change the BNP s junior coalition partner, Jamaat e Islami, which has links with the militias and remains close to Pakistan, has been calling for imposition of Sharia (Islamic law).

If the Israelis and the international community want Abbas to remain in power, they must change their approach dramatically, by lifting the economic siege and providing his presidency with military and political support. And, if the Israelis are convinced that Abbas is too weak to do anything, they can help the Palestinians by releasing the Fatah strongman, Marwan Barghouti, from an Israeli jail.