ironhanded
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For, in his usual ironhanded manner, he had run the convention in large measure for the edification of another group of labormen meeting simultaneously in Miami�the executive council of the American Federation of Labor.
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Other ironhanded Presidents saw red in the rising sun of the Court.
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Porfirio D�az, the great dictator who imposed ironhanded stability on the country in the last century, once bitterly said: "Poor Mexico: so far from God, so near the U.S."
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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
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