The biblical strongman Samson had one extraordinary weakness: his primary motivation in life was simply to get revenge.
Mr Wiranto will argue that an old-fashioned strongman is what the country needs but it will be surprising if he does any better than the third place he got in 2004.
Now 72, at well over 6 feet tall and 265 pounds, he still has the presence of a strongman.
Iraqis, says one, are “an unruly mass of shirugi—slang for thick-headed Marsh Arabs—who need the rule of the rod, a strongman, to control them.”
Unlike on previous occasions, he made no attempt to appear as Russia's strongman.
Mobutu Sese Seko, a former strongman, used state funds to charter a Concorde to take him on shopping trips to Paris.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman president of Chechnya, and his kind do not work by the Kremlin’s post-modern rules.
Huntington correctly foresaw that the Arab strongman regimes were fragile and were threatened by the masses of unemployed young men.
My first coach was Andrew Wallach, a local strongman and the head routesetter at Vertex Climbing Center, in Santa Rosa, California.
In Tashkent officials say the chaos only underscores the need for a strongman rule.
Mr Akayev, the strongman, was a northerner.