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Conservative hereditary peer Lord Strathclyde called the legislation a "high-handed, shoddy political act".

Liam Kelly of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland said the letter sent to Mr Boutcher by the permanent secretary of the Department of Justice appeared to be a "high-handed attempt to gag, embarrass and chastise" him.

Later, some applauded the vice president’s firm handling of the protesters; others saw a high-handed dismissal.

But Idaho’s Republican legislators have been way too cavalier and high-handed about this problem, burying their heads in the sand and refusing to fix it.

Perceived as high-handed and over-assertive, he is resented to a degree that was not true of previous French heads of state, even Nicolas Sarkozy, who had the gall to tell a Senegalese audience that Africa had not sufficiently entered into history.