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It was during these operations, with no intelligence about Gadhafi's whereabouts, that the fighters said the former strongman was found.

Unlike on previous occasions, he made no attempt to appear as Russia's strongman.

Mr Maliki is trying to buff up his image as the strongman who can provide law and order.

Some would wish to install a new strongman and wait for him to create the conditions for a secular democracy.

Nor is a strongman or tightly knit group of leaders likely to be able to overcome them.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman president of Chechnya, and his kind do not work by the Kremlin's post-modern rules.

Sudan's strongman, Omar al-Bashir, blasts the proposed deployment of UN troops in Darfur as the spearhead of a new Western crusade.

And also, compared with the power of competing factions, how overstated is the strongman reputation of Mr Putin, Russia's prime minister.

It could go the way of Russia and be ruled by a new strongman from within the system.

Huntington correctly foresaw that the Arab strongman regimes were fragile and were threatened by the masses of unemployed young men.

The war in Chechnya was over and the republic appeared relatively calm under its strongman president, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Libyan strongman Col. Muammar Gaddafi's bloody suppression of a huge popular uprising is generating international outrage.

A still worse headache for Puntland is the departure of its strongman, Abdullahi Yusuf, to become president of Somalia.

A striking development is the emergence of Mr Maliki as a would-be strongman.

each place, initiates stubbornness to come, also must withdraw three sheds including elephant that kind of strongman.

The longtime strongman turned to China, in part to combat sanctions from the U. S. and other countries targeting his regime.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin keeps demanding a replacement for the dollar as the world's leading reserve currency.

Is the "failing strongman" period the only moment for change?

In Tashkent officials say the chaos only underscores the need for a strongman rule.

It will have to be the Brothers or another strongman.

His younger brother, Sulim, is now a fierce rival of Chechnya's strongman president, Ramzan Kadyrov.

The biblical strongman Samson had one extraordinary weakness: his primary motivation in life was simply to get revenge.

Schwarzenegger was a fading strongman and minor movie actor with immigrant dreams as outlandishly big as his biceps.

Al-Maliki's effort to portray himself as a new strongman was floundering even before the recent spate of bombings.

But no one appeared ready when Tunisia erupted into protests that toppled longtime strongman Zine el Abidine ben Ali.

Even Kagame's strongman government can do only so much so fast.

But for Colombia to progress it needs strong institutions rather than an eternal strongman.

Now, especially after Kremlin-backed strongman Ramzan Kadyrov took over in 2007, Chechnya is a potential menace to Georgia again.

Since then, however, we haven't heard much about WikiLeaks from the Zimbabwean strongman or his top lawyer.

We are a country with six million people and a lot of oil and you need a strongman.

A recent spate of rockets into Israel has punctured the calm, though Hamas's Gaza strongman, Mahmoud Zahar, condemned it.

The "Tulip Revolution" of 2005 brought down Askar Akayev, a Soviet-era strongman, who now teaches maths in Moscow.

The strongman runs deep in the psyche of the Communist Party.

Few people know the obstacles strongman Zhang Xiangxiang had to overcome before finally winning his first Olympic gold.

It was right in Iraqtoorganise elections ratherthan impose a strongman.

Strongman Liu Zhenyu withstands a 16-tonne truck rolling over his chest during a performance in 2009 in Jilin, northeast China.

When the notorious Communist strongman died in 1953, he was initially buried in Lenin's Mausoleum.

Ms. Bachelet is the first woman elected president in Latin America who is not the widow of a political strongman.

Even non-Arab oil states, such as Angola, Russia or Venezuela, seem vulnerable to strongman rule.

Now 72, at well over 6 feet tall and 265 pounds, he still has the presence of a strongman.

Samson is the legendary strongman in this story from the Bible who is first seduced and later betrayed by the beautiful Delilah.

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