iron rule
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He was deposed by popular protests in 2019 after 30 years of iron rule.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2022
“The iron rule of Korean dramas is that ... you need to be able to empathize with the characters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
In 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il died after more than a decade of iron rule; he was 69, according to official records, but some reports indicated he was 70.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 17, 2020
The iron rule of the Marcos era had ended, and Communist rebels held a large part of the city.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2017
The most despotic measures marked his transient but iron rule; and had he survived, the expectations formed of him would in all probability have been realised, and he would have become monarch of all Abyssinia.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
