ironhanded

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With comic indecision, its economic planners have bobbed between ironhanded Communist controls and fleeting flirtations with capitalism.

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

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Old Nelson's fiercest expletive was "my goodness gracious," but he was so ironhanded in his domination of the Senate that "Aldrichism" became a term of opprobrium.

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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