We refer to the matter of iron-clad vessels of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

No iron-clad rules can be laid down as to the frequency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference

Of the iron-clad river steamers, we enumerate the following.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

But those guarantees are hardly iron-clad and might even be empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terror Watch: Risky Releases?] Reference

Because Britney had what everybody ` s calling an iron-clad prenup.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2006] Reference

Proposals for iron-clad vessels having been invited by the Navy Department.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference

He said that he was short of coal, and could not use wood in his iron-clad boats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The most formidable class of these unfinished vessels are the iron-clad gunboats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The only professional sport considered not to have an iron-clad policy on steroids.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2004] Reference

Markets need to be convinced there is an iron-clad commitment to fiscal discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greece Seeks to Woo European Investors] Reference

So, apparently the studies touting the benefits of fluoridation are not all that iron-clad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Chameides: The Chemical Marketplace Series -- Drinking It In: Is Fluoride Good for You?] Reference

Al Gore will put Medicare in an iron-clad lockbox where politicians can't raid it or cut it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democratic National Convention: Democratic Party's Liberal Wing Gets a Chance to Speak Out - August 15, 2000] Reference

Norfolk, the destruction of the iron-clad "Virginia," and of the retreat from the Peninsula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

For some time he has been living, so to speak, in the midst of magnificent iron-clad fleets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891] Reference

She commenced last year ten iron-clad ships of the line, and has nearly or quite finished the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference

And we have a kind of moral and legal commitment, that's not iron-clad, but to defend Taiwan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2008] Reference

Then, for the first time in naval warfare, two iron-clad vessels were pitted against each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference

He thought he had iron-clad commitments from his colleagues that he would be the nuber two person.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2006] Reference

She did not even feel the rencontre; it was like an iron-clad coming in collision with a fishing-smack.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

Queen of Great Britain, taken on board the iron-clad turret ship-of-war Monarch, C.ptain C.merell, C. B.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

There is a chapter yet to be published upon iron-clad war-ships, as introduced practically in the Civil War.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

The Eastport, the most formidable iron-clad of the Mississippi squadron, grounded on a bar below Grand Ecore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

This is one of the iron-clad rules of Jobsdom, applied in computers and especially iPods: you can't be too thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch Up Worth It?] Reference

Work is again the order of the day; for coaling a large iron-clad over all means some exertion I can assure you.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

We judge he has it, but we don't have iron-clad evidence, and if they'd said that, the dynamic might have changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2004] Reference

The New Ironsides, now on special service, is said to be one of the most formidable iron-clad vessels in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The navy-yard, and the wreck of the iron-clad ram Savannah, were still smouldering, but all else looked quiet enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Admiral Farragut had run the batteries at Port Hudson with the flagship Hartford and one iron-clad and visited me from below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Eight down upon our center, borne by the might of the rushing water, came the whale-boat sent to rescue others from the iron-clad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference

But even if it hadn't, climate change is too complex an issue to ever be established with anything approaching iron-clad certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Of The Global Warming Movement] Reference

To build team unity, Mr. Cox enforces his Code of Conduct, signed by players and parents alike, with its iron-clad litany of rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trouble On and Off the Gridiron] Reference

If we turn our attention to iron-clad ships, we shall see best displayed the sagacity, energy, and secretiveness of Louis Napoleon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference

We've managed to create iron-clad itineraries through which we impel our kids-no hang time-but a gaping hole in the heart of it all.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Vacation Almost Killed Me'] Reference

That stride consisted in imposing the so-called "iron-clad oath" upon all officers, of whatever grade or character, in all the former.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference