| Mr Kirchner brooked no challenges to his authority as president, treating dissent as indistinguishable from treason. |
| But in a political environment that brooked no dissent, he was undoubtedly a reformer. |
| Under the strong leadership of a self-perpetuating general staff, the army brooked little interference in its affairs by the civil government. |
| The finality of his tone brooked no argument, and it seemed as though it had finally sunk in that Mr Cunningham had tried something on me. |
| But he never brooked any solecism in behaviour inside his courtroom. |
| He brooked no rivals, anointed no successors and developed a cult of personality that was indivisible from his people's hopes. |
