1.   He was a military strongman who ruled the country after a coup.

2.   Another major problem is the tendency of military strongmen to ignore the United Nations.

3.   As tactics, they are perhaps coarse, and summon unsettling memories of past military strongmen in the region like Juan Peron.

4.   Military strongman Liu Huaqing, another CMC vice-chairman, made it clear his portfolio went beyond army affairs.

5.   Military strongman and then-Prime Minister Suchinda Kraprayoon and protest leader Chamlong Srimuang were summoned to the palace.

6.   Michele Jean-Paul, a teacher from the suburb of Petionville applauded the invasion while retaining her loyalty to military strongman Raoul Cedras.

7.   The commander-in-chief of the armed forces and former military strongman, August Pinochet, greeted a group of supporters outside his house in Las Condes.

8.   They are the same societies that spawned most of the military strongmen and terrorists who have bedeviled the United States and Europe in recent decades.

9.   Washington showed few qualms about supporting military strongmen like Augusto Pinochet in Chile or dictators like Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua.

10.   Perez Balladares is a member of the Democratic Revolutionary Party and once served as campaign manager for a puppet presidential candidate during the reign of military strongman Manuel Noriega.