ironhanded
Example Sentences
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Censorship remains ironhanded within Poland, although it was lifted at week's end for dispatches by foreign correspondents.
From Time Magazine Archive
In its early days Maroc-Presse, like its competitors, rarely criticized the ironhanded suppres sion of nationalism by Resident General Alphonse Tuin.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though Hawaiian labor made needed gains, Bridges' ironhanded control of the island economy posed a new threat; it lasts, somewhat diluted, even today, in an uneasy peace between the unions and industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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