ironfisted
Example Sentences
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Cassandra, the de-facto leader of the teens, is tenuously ironfisted.
From The New Yorker • May 22, 2019
Leonard Nimoy did it with a memorable turn as a goateed, ironfisted Mr. Spock in an original "Star Trek" episode that sent the Enterprise crew into a more bloodthirsty parallel universe.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2013
Not long ago, Greyhound's ironfisted tactic would have seemed overly harsh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nehru's first task was to deal with an embarrassing split in the puppet Kashmiri government headed by ironfisted Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The union grew out of economic despair in 1980 and was crushed the next year by the imposition of martial law, one of the last ironfisted displays of Brezhnev-style authority.
From Time Magazine Archive
