iron-handed
Example Sentences
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Some of those critics now say her new government could be even more iron-handed and aggressive.
From Fox News • Jan. 2, 2019
In Peru, voters chose Sunday between two conservative candidates in a tight presidential race that has become a referendum on the legacy of imprisoned ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s iron-handed rule in the 1990s.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2016
The hotel's fitness center is one of the best in the city, with an indoor pool and treadmills overlooking the city skyline; the spa has plunge pools, steam rooms, and iron-handed masseuses.
From Time Magazine Archive
An iron-handed man knows how to deal with such cases, and he winds them up with a bounce.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 by Various
Two days after the Kieff riot he promulgated a manifesto, framed by Pobiedonostzeff, and proclaiming the continuance of unqualified iron-handed absolutism.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
