high-handed

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In a statement the posted on social media by the Foreign Minister Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, Ghana called Canada's decision "high-handed and extremely unfair", calling Partey, "a key member of Ghana's senior national team".

From Barron's • Jun. 13, 2026

The high-handed rejection of a treatment for Huntington’s disease shows why the biologics chief had to go.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

Scottish Conservatives chairman Craig Hoy told the BBC that Mr Russell was "dismissing the concerns raised by Lisa Cameron in the most high-handed of ways."

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023

In countering misinformation, FDA also risks coming off as high-handed.

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2023

Never having been a high-handed or demanding girl, she had been able to make a little go a long way.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White