iron rule

This is in contrast to MI5’s previous position that it only became involved with Stakeknife in 2003 when the Security Service was tasked with rehousing him in England after he had been ‘outed’ and identified, although the government has never confirmed that Scappaticci was Stakeknife following the intelligence services iron rule to “neither confirm nor deny”.

It’s the last time we see Rick until the final minutes of the series finale, when we catch a glimpse of his life six years later under the iron rule of the heavily militarized city the Civic Republic, still dreaming of reuniting with his family.

They worked on elections and participated in marches and protests against President Daniel Ortega’s iron rule.

In the past year, the secret police has devastated the small bits of civil society — the autonomous social, political and cultural institutions that promote collective action — that had barely survived two decades of Putin’s iron rule.

For decades, the iron rule of Republican presidential politics was this: The party establishment always wins.