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iron rule
noun as in iron hand
noun as in martial law
Example Sentences
The iron rule of Republican fiscal policy is that the rich must be favored, and deficits be damned.
Mike Giglio finds the Facebook freedom fighter who helped bring down 30 years of the country's iron rule.
After five years of a prison almost worse than death he returned to find his beloved land oppressed by the iron rule of Napoleon.
She sympathized with him silently for having such a mother, and felt that they were fellow-sufferers under her iron rule.
Already loud regrets had been heard among the populace for the iron rule of Ninus and the warlike glories of the Great King.
This could not be brought about by an iron rule, and a stern, inflexible character.
But he was behind his time: he was an iron ruler, and iron rule was out of date.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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