ironhanded
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Though Hawaiian labor made needed gains, Bridges' ironhanded control of the island economy posed a new threat; it lasts, somewhat diluted, even today, in an uneasy peace between the unions and industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour.
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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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But the changes are unlikely to convince the Iraqi masses that the regime has truly turned over a new leaf, especially since the ironhanded Interior Minister, Ali Hassan Majid, has kept his job.
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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
