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  • Muammar al-

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  • noun Libyan leader who seized power in a military coup d'etat in 1969; deposed the Libyan monarchy and imposed socialism and Islamic orthodoxy on the country (born in 1942)

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Examples

  • Flicking her hair coquettishly, she addressed him as "brother leader" – choosing as a free woman in a free country to honour the title Gaddafi compels his subject people to use on pain of punishment.

    Lord Woolf's conflict of interest at the LSE | Nick Cohen 2011

  • The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said French aircraft were already in action by late afternoon to stop what he described as Gaddafi's "murderous madness".

    Libya: Allied strikes sweep Libya as west intervenes in conflict 2011

  • In interviews with Reuters in Tripoli on Monday, officials of the National Transitional Council NTC made plain that feelings are running high against neighboring Algeria, which one described as Gaddafi's "right-hand man."

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • Brady68: Amazing to think that facebook and twitter have now changed And Obama is too busy boogying to Motown to use the word "Gaddafi".

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The erratic behavior and preposterous claims of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi -- probably the only contemporary politician whose life was the subject of an opera produced in September 2006 by the English National Opera under the title Gaddafi: A Living Myth -- make it difficult to take him seriously, yet some of the utterances he made during his 42 years in power warrant closer examination.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ibrahim Warde 2011

  • I referred to Gaddafi as a domineering autocrat with a bad record on human rights and terrorism.

    Joseph Nye: Gaddafi and Change Joseph Nye 2011

  • Frankie GreenWhitstable, Kent• Considering that Nato planes (and now Apache strike helicopters) are searching out Gaddafi, and have already killed three members of his immediate family, no reasonable psychiatrist would label Gaddafi as paranoid (Gaddafi is paranoid and on the run, MI6 tells Cameron, May 27).

    Letters: Spooks' psychiatry 2011

  • I will say this: i find it fascinating that Gaddafi is willing to be so in your face about identifying as an African, dealing with Europeans in particular. eta: gaddafi's stylist.

    dc = kinda lit up right now. smillaraaq 2009

  • This country may have ended state-sponsored terrorism, but it continues to exhibit a miserable human-rights record; its dictatorial leader Moammar Gaddafi is at best a public nuisance and at worse an outright nutcase.

    Who's the master of a .ly domain? Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • I referred to Gaddafi as a domineering autocrat with a bad record on human rights and terrorism.

    Joseph Nye: Gaddafi and Change Joseph Nye 2011

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