iron rule
Example Sentences
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“The iron rule of Korean dramas is that ... you need to be able to empathize with the characters.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2022
A slew of statutes and regulations recognize this authority and address immigrants who are not removed within 90 days, a clear signal that this deadline is not, in fact, an iron rule.
From Slate • Jan. 26, 2021
In 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il died after more than a decade of iron rule; he was 69, according to official records, but some reports indicated he was 70.
From Washington Times • Dec. 17, 2020
After all, decades of TV cop shows had taught executives the iron rule that the viewers needed the good guy to win.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2019
The most despotic measures marked his transient but iron rule; and had he survived, the expectations formed of him would in all probability have been realised, and he would have become monarch of all Abyssinia.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
