iron-handed
Example Sentences
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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
Picture to America the lovers in her half-millennium, when usage shall have become iron-handed once again, when noble sweethearts must break beautiful customs for the sake of their dreams.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel
It seems that Water Valley, Mississippi, is attracting hosts of Swiss settlers, speaking of whom a contemporary calls them "iron-handed mountaineers."
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 39, December 24, 1870. by Various
