This is not a man who is -- has an iron-fisted control.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2001] Reference

Between the iron-fisted Yankees and the indolent cowardly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

President Robert Mugabe's iron-fisted rule, will Tuesday meet with.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

An iron-fisted and cold grip that lasted 28 years, gone overnight.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009] Reference

This Chinese occupation force is no longer as iron-fisted as it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shards Of A Nation] Reference

Corporate greed has "an iron-fisted grip on your democracy," he tells people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man on a Mission] Reference

Congress normally operated by hearings in the past before iron-fisted GOP rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Dem Congress Overturn "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy?] Reference

February 5 after 38 years of iron-fisted rule over his tiny and impoverished nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I do not dispute that she's iron-fisted and calculating, but that doesn't make her inhuman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary On Obama's Speeches: "It's Change You Can Xerox"] Reference

Duarte's approach has met with criticism from those calling for iron-fisted action against crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Look what craven, whimpering plea bargainers most of these once iron-fisted rulers instantly became.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Now Year's Resolution] Reference

Organizing a democratic challenge to the increasingly iron-fisted rule of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.    From Wordnik.com.  [With a Friend Like This] Reference

Meanwhile, weeks after Iraq's once iron-fisted dictator is dead, who is pulling the strings in Iraq right now?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2007] Reference

Smiley faces for a thug who seized power by coup in 1989 and has retained it only through iron-fisted brutality?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sudan's Sham Elections] Reference

Mokhehle's Basotho Congress Party won the election that ended seven years of military coups and iron-fisted rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In Pakistan, it's the lawyers who are leading the revolt against the iron-fisted rule and paying a fearsome price.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2007] Reference

Fivaz said he believed the new "iron-fisted" police plan, unveiled in Pretoria on Thursday, would enable the SA Police.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The 1994 election ended three decades of iron-fisted rule under dictator Kamuzu Banda, who led the former British colony of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Malawi, and the release of all political prisoners when he was sworn in in 1994, ending three decades of Banda's iron-fisted rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He was toppled in 1999 after 19 years of iron-fisted rule but returned from exile to win the presidency as an independent in 2005.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

What the US would really like is a new version of the late Najibullah, the iron-fisted strongman who ran Afghanistan for the Soviets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Margolis: The Writing on the Wall in Kabul] Reference

As for the scribal rabbinic elite, so also for the ordinary people, resistance under Herod's iron-fisted rule was futile and suicidal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jews and Christians in a Roman World] Reference

JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: A French journalist is emerging from Afghanistan with an insider's view of the Taliban's iron-fisted rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2001] Reference

The iron-fisted military presence of Iran has kept that region in relative calm except for infrequent suicide bombings and skirmishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saad Khan: Iran, Balochistan and Pakistan: The Next Insurgent Frontier?] Reference

His dictatorship -- like his son's -- could never have lasted so long without the unwavering support of an iron-fisted security apparatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [SYRIA'S ODD MAN] Reference

Oil is an industry of legendary char-acters, starting with John D. Rockefeller, the iron-fisted monopolist who created the Standard Oil empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multiple Personality] Reference

Mills has been hampered by the inefficiency, mismanagement, and iron-fisted government control that make Nigeria notorious among foreign investors.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

That means a delicate dance for President Alexander Lukashenko, who built his iron-fisted rule on close relations with Russia, his eastern neighbor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elections Test Belarus's Efforts to Court the West] Reference

And it ended more than 50 years of unbroken rule by the Kuomintang (KMT), the once iron-fisted regime of Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist exiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pointing To Trouble] Reference

But their stability and structure reveal his distance from the chaotic reality, and actually evoke the order imposed under the iron-fisted rule of Saddam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Saddam Art] Reference

Muluzi came to power in 1994 in Malawi's first multi-party elections, ending three decades of iron-fisted rule by the country's founder-president Kamuzu Banda.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

After breaking away from Malaysia in 1965, the elder Lee's iron-fisted government used industrialization, trade and tourism to create an affluent, highly educated society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Singapore's Sunny Face] Reference

Libyans are shaking off decades of deprivation resulting from an iron-fisted socialist rule, international isolation and sanctions to savour the joys of their new market economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Mr. Kim, and his father, Kim Il Sung, before him, maintained their dictatorial power for five decades through fear and an iron-fisted grip on information, including economic data.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Korea's Economic Fog] Reference

The warden of the high-security military prison is the iron-fisted martinet Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini), whose awe of the legendary general quickly turns to envy and enmity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference