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
So I’m gonna tell you the iron rule of family communication about politics: Do not try to change another family member.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2020
The iron rule of the Marcos era had ended, and Communist rebels held a large part of the city.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2017
Ryan was not swayed by the speeches and vowed to run the House with the same iron rule if the disruptions continue.
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2016
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
