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Yet Bill Hodges, executive director of the Orange County division of the League of California Cities, maintains that L.A. is still high-handed when it comes to regional issues.

Conservative hereditary peer Lord Strathclyde called the legislation a "high-handed, shoddy political act".

But Idaho’s Republican legislators have been way too cavalier and high-handed about this problem, burying their heads in the sand and refusing to fix it.

But that relationship will always be hostage to events; either a flare-up in the South China Sea, or any other act by China seen as high-handed by the Vietnamese.

The party has also been accused of legitimizing New Delhi’s high-handed militaristic policies there.