Crossword clues for strongman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 A performer who demonstrates feats of strength. 2 A man who competes in contests of physical strength. 3 A forceful or brutal person, usually applied to a ruler or tyrant.
WordNet
n. a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus
a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violencea; "he is determined to bring down the Iraqi strongman"
Wikipedia
Strongman or Strong Man may refer to:
- Strongman (strength athlete)
- Strongman (politics)
- High striker, a physical strength carnival attraction
- Strongman (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Steve Strongman, a Canadian blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- Jon Andersen (born 1972), professional wrestler also known by the ring names Jon Strongman and Strong Man
- Strongman Mine, a New Zealand coal-mine
- Strong Man, one of The Mighty Heroes in the U.S. animated television series
- Strongman (2009 film), a documentary movie about Stanley Pleskun
A strongman is a political leader who rules by force and runs an authoritarian regime. The term is often used interchangeably with " dictator" in the western world, but differs from a " warlord" and commonly lacks the negative connotations especially in some Eastern European and Central Asian countries.
A strongman is not necessarily always a formal head of state or head of government; sometimes journalists use the term to describe a military or political figure who exercises far more influence over the government than a local constitution allows. General Manuel Noriega, for example, was often dubbed the "Strongman of Panama" for the enormous amount of political power he exercised over Panama, despite the fact that he was not the formal president of the state.
Similarly, not every discussion of "strong leadership" (or every promise to provide such) envisages rule by a strongman.
In the 19th century, the term strongman referred to an exhibitor of strength (before strength sports were codified into weightlifting, powerlifting etc., becoming actual athletic competitions) or similar circus performers who displayed feats of strength.
The Strongman is the name of three different fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Strongman is a 2009 documentary about Stanley Pleskun.
Usage examples of "strongman".
Magpie Maggie Hag, though grumpily, took Edge away from the balloon and Yount from his strongman practice, for a fitting of the costumes she had by now basted together, and also took Mullenax away from his liquid breakfast.
The solution the Nixon administration devised was to rely on proxies to serve as regional strongmen as a substitute for the commitment of U.
One of the poor girls who entertains its clients was badly beaten last time he was there, and he had to pay Madam Feartha a bribe of five crowns to prevent her setting her strongmen on him.
He contented himself in making arrangements with local strongmen instead of imposing his view of the empire from the top down.
Its expectation had been that if NATO demonstrated its willingness to use force, Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic would back down as he had in Bosnia four years earlier.
Two boys in their apprenticeships, two gnarled old men, and a lone strongman in his mid-thirties.
Outside the pista curbing, the Quakemaker grunted and heaved at some new strongman equipment he was preparing to introduce into his act.
Voider defends Dr Robertson’s friendship with Zhu (and association with deposed Congo strongman Mobutu) on the grounds that “Pat would meet with the Devil if that is only way to help suffering people.
Latter-day adventurers had, however, carved their names on to its walls—notably the former circus strongman Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823) who had forced his way into the monument in 1818.
Some individuals have, or develop, a seemingly uncanny instinct for such things, Belzoni, the flamboyant Italian strongman who had been one of the first to work in the Valley of the Kings, had an extraordinary talent for locating hidden tomb entrances.
Considering the volatile mix of alcoholism, unemployment, and potential ethnic conflict in Central Asia, might it make sense, in the short run at least, for Karimov to idolize strongmen like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and Alberto Fujimori of Peru rather than idealists like Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic?
In Europe, also hard hit by the Depression, the people of Italy and Germany hungered not for democracy, but for the strongman leadership promised by a journalist named Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) and a failed artist, sometimes house painter, and full-time political agitator named Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).
The theater darkened and the spotlights picked out the solid figure of the strongman as he stalked forward to look at the wall.