strongman

IPA: strˈɔŋmæn

Someone who performs feats of strength, sometimes in competitions or in a circus.
A forceful or brutal person, usually a ruler or tyrant.

Examples of "strongman" in Sentences

Proof that the odd strongman is often preferable to the alternative.
Kremlin strongman Gordon Brown has once again shown the world that he's not a man to be messed with.
The Latin American strongman, his blond wife at his side, addresses the enraptured masses from the balcony of a presidential palace.
So the question of whether Bush should have installed a strongman is mute – it is like wondering what would happen if Bush could raise people from the dead.
Adding his own twist to the Latin American strongman railing against American policies, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras began talking to journalists on Tuesday.
Fresh from nationalizing almost every capitalist enterprise that yields a profit (or used to anyway), Latin American strongman Hugo Chávez has found a new class enemy: golf.
But let’s step back for a moment: how far have we fallen when a leftist Latin American strongman is more persuasive in the international arena than the freaking President of the United States?
He is no Baltasar Garzón, the flamboyant, media-hungry Spanish magistrate who sought the extradition of Chile's Augusto Pinochet on charges that the Latin American strongman had Spaniards tortured and killed — and who is now weighing a possible case against some top Bush administration lawyers who gave advice clearing the way for the alleged torture of terror suspects.