strong man

"We had to watch as his body slowly shut down and the strong man we know was still trying to fight to be with us," she said.

Trump wants to appear as a strong man who got a peace deal quickly, he said, so Macron's strategy "is to demonstrate to Trump how weak he would look, he would not be the strong man he wants to be".

They think it's more important to put a strong man in power to demolish the supposedly dangerous radical left.

We want to call attention to the messages it sends to Americans, how it coarsens our civic life, encourages cynicism, and prepares the way for Trump’s distinctive brand of strong man rule.

He is on good terms with Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whom he views as a fellow “strong man,” and so may turn to him for counsel.