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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My wife showed me a blog comment on one of my last talks, and the blog comment said, Collier is not charismatic but his arguments are compelling.

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.

The emergence of an embryonic world civil society heightens demand for universal and charismatic figures, holding out the hope of global accountability, but also carrying populist overtones.

His selection of Sarah Palin, a charismatic but spectacularly unqualified candidate, as his running mate, is just the most glaring of many examples of the real McCain.

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.

But the Dalai Lama, the charismatic face of the Tibetan movement, has made it clear that his successor will come from the free world, thereby excluding Chinese ruled Tibet.

This is where they beat the Salafis. Their women are experienced, outgoing, gutsy, and trained to be convincing and charismatic, a Salafi activist who supported Aboul Fotouh told me.

One lesson we have learned from both the Milosevic and Hussein trials is that one should not put men or women on trial in order to terminate their charismatic appeal.

To outsiders, the region is virtually synonymous with political polarization. Fatigue clad guerrillas, charismatic populists, and reactionary military junta leaders have long cut much larger figures than moderate politicians in boring gray suits.

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.

Western Europeans, who have been spared this legacy, should heed our warnings. Dependence on Russia even if its face is now that of the allegedly charismatic Gerhard Schroeder will only lead to an abyss.

And groups famously follow the opinions of the most dominant or charismatic person in the room, even though there's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas I mean zero.

A handsome, charismatic populist born into the Party elite, Bo was known as a tough official, whose methods in fighting organized crime and others who got in his way were often unrestrained by law.

The new generation of singers is just the tip of a vast influx of global vocalization. (The most charismatic singer in the Munich Ring was the woodbird from Siegfried, the Russian born Anna Virovlansky.)

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.

Sent underground during the Soviet Union, the tradition of charismatic oral poetry themed on the life of a mythical warrior king received a powerful shot in the arm during the rule of Kyrgyzstan's first president Askar Akayev.

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.

What people crave in uncertain times is strong leadership from charismatic figures who promise to sweep the stables, get rid of corruption, and stand up for the little man against selfish politicians and against foreigners who threaten us with strange habits and religions.

Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela. Here he shares his amazing story and unveils a TED Prize wish that could have a big impact in the US and beyond.