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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

The only sewing-machine clattered away all day long, and the whole company plied their needles as if they were being sweated by iron-handed taskmasters.

From The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Turley, Charles

He is thickset, heavy, bulky in the girth, flat-footed, iron-handed, slow to move.

From The Children of the King by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)




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