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Example sentences for: strongman

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Will the strongman of the era be AOL, AT&T, Microsoft, or one of the big media companies?
The old spin, articulated by Bob Dole in the Los Angeles Times : Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic is up to his old brutality and, if another Bosnia is to be averted, NATO must quickly impose a no-fly zone and threaten airstrikes.
Communist Party boss (ostensibly a social democrat) Ion Iliescu ruled between a mob's execution of longtime strongman Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 and his own loss of an election last year.
3. He's a strongman.
A NYT below-the-fold article quotes an observer who claims that the election signals the "end of the era of the caudillo (strongman)."