strongman

He was a strongman who utilised brutal methods - but he also dictated that industries be created.

It can be a recipe for a loudmouthed strongman to drive a group over a cliff.

When young people were angry in Syria, they were angry at a secular, socialist strongman.

Bill Gates isn't very strong, and he's more useful than any 'strongman' I've ever heard of.

There's even crossfit boxes with strongman and powerlifting equipment.

Haha, low:-) I got into WL after years of powerlifting and strongman.

Dictators, on the other hand, rule by the fist and part of that fist is building some asinine strongman personality for the borscht eaters who buy into that crap.

I think this has foundation in how the country has always had a strongman or strongwoman at the helm who have always projected their power unambiguously and forcefully.

I know a pro strongman who doesn't make enough in prize money to cover his training, let alone flying to contests, and I used to work in pro tennis where the bottom tier (still pro players) are borrowing money and living off relatives and national sports grants.

A South Korean "strongman" is pretty weak sauce compared to a communist strongman.

While I wouldn't agree with enputen's characterization of "deliberate", it's entirely possible that they've been kept weak by a class of strongman lenders & landlords.

That "paid actor" has a Strongman career.

Regarding creating the "new" Middle East, the 20th century Middle East was created by the UK and France and led to the formation of Israel, the definition of all the borders, and the control of strongman dictators over nearly every nation in the region.