ironhanded

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Porfirio D�az, the great dictator who imposed ironhanded stability on the country in the last century, once bitterly said: "Poor Mexico: so far from God, so near the U.S."

From Time Magazine Archive

Lacerda dumped canned government propaganda editorials in the wastebasket, regularly broke the ironhanded censorship of Dictator Vargas.

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Others called the ironhanded regime of the Resident General, Old Soldier Augustin Guillaume, a "police state," and even saw a prospect of civil war.

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Instead of suggesting the ironhanded vulgarian of a millionaire, whose god is business, De Feraudy reminds one of Mr. Jiggs in the comic supplement series, Bringing Up Father.

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Right ceases to reign, force asserts itself, and Bismarck, ironhanded, invincible, holds sway over a scared, unresisting, one may say a soulless world.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 by Various