The opposition is led by a charismatic leader with huge popular support.

What s missing this time, however, is a charismatic leader comparable to Khomeini.

Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda s founder and charismatic leader, was killed by United States Navy Seals in Pakistan in May.

Putin s public image as a strong and virile adventurer, captured in photos depicting him fishing and hunting shirtless, reinforces his appeal as a powerful, charismatic leader.

When Iraq was liberated, most people, especially the poor, began to hope for a charismatic leader who would save them from the bitter reality of daily life.

In Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh now has a charismatic leader whose massive electoral mandate augurs well for creating the type of strong, secular government that the country needs.

She is the daughter of the first president of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a charismatic leader often described as the Father of the Nation, who was assassinated in August 1975 by the army.

Fortunately, there is no sign yet (not even on the horizon) of a charismatic leader capable of forging the scattered energies of national socialist grievances into a critical mass of hatred and national revival.

To achieve this end, Vallenilla argued that, at least in the case of Venezuela, a charismatic leader, confirmed in power through regular elections, would be best placed to concentrate political power successfully and guarantee institutional order.

First, Sheikh Hasina is no ordinary politician. She is the daughter of the first president of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a charismatic leader often described as the Father of the Nation, who was assassinated in August 1975 by the army.

Carter was a somewhat bland engineer, whereas Obama is a charismatic lawyer.

Moreover, charismatic leadership can be problematic even when it takes a benign form.

He is young, vigorous, charismatic, and educated, a patriot advocating a strong state.

A Pakistani intellectual once confessed to me, I fear the weak electoral showings of Islamists in Pakistan has more to do with the fact that a compelling, charismatic Islamist leader a Pakistani Hassan Nasrallah has yet to emerge, not that his message wouldn't resonate.

Indeed, across Europe, no democracy is currently led by a strong or charismatic personality.

The sociologist Max Weber described three bases of authority traditional, charismatic, and rational (legal).

But Le Pen was replaced in January by his no less charismatic daughter, Marine.

It had a new, charismatic president, who was known as an Anglophile and a cosmopolitan spirit.

They wanted a strong charismatic man to reawaken France economically and to reassure them in security terms.

The charismatic figures of the mid twentieth century Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle have no contemporary counterparts.

Ban, by contrast, is neither charismatic nor an inspirational speaker indeed, his English is not as good as Annan s.

In France, the Socialist Party is almost outnumbered by Europe Ecologie, a green coalition gathered by the charismatic Daniel Cohn Bendit.

The Lega Nord, led by the charismatic Umberto Bossi, holds the decisive votes in Parliament to keep the Berlusconi government afloat.

They also signed charismatic players, such as Bernd Schuster, and Rudi Völler, helping to ensure the team's popularity and growing success.

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Dependence on Russia even if its face is now that of the allegedly charismatic Gerhard Schroeder will only lead to an abyss.

Chávismo, apart from its reliance on charismatic leadership, has never amounted to more than a social program hitched to an oil bonanza.

For the brave and charismatic dissident Wei Jingsheng, Mao cast virtually the whole of China into a state of violence, duplicity, and poverty.

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Hollande s victory thus may be a sign that democratic countries have become reluctant to be led by flamboyant or charismatic presidents or prime ministers.

Each ideological grouping would most likely become factionalized along complex national lines divisions likely to be reflected in the ensuing competition to be charismatic.

Charismatic politicians act by polarizing, galvanizing, and mobilizing supporters routine politics, by contrast, requires maintaining a low profile and being willing to strike compromises.

While in opposition, the DPJ bashed the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for flipping through leader after leader.

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Even citizens who prize accuracy have little way of knowing that they are sacrificing it when they switch channels from boring foxes to charismatic hedgehogs.

One party systems, one man charismatic dictatorships, or a mixture of the two, as in Tito s Yugoslavia, are a guarantee of sclerotic minds and inert governments.

The followers of such a leader feel trust, admiration, loyalty and respect for the leader and because of the qualities of the transformational leader are willing to work harder than originally expected.

Third, reforms require a strong leader.

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