Think of the iron-willed mom in "Malcolm in the Middle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Test-Marketing Hillary] Reference

CNN's Keith Oppenheim has this iron-willed chef's story.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2007] Reference

Hes one of the most iron-willed beings Ive ever encountered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiss of a Demon King] Reference

He is stoic, inscrutable, iron-willed and not given to sentiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Were Strangers (1949)] Reference

Wheeling around, she prepared for battle with the iron-willed bank teller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undercover Vows]

The Soviet Union, like Nazi Germany, was ruled by an iron-willed dictator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler]

And then Hestia Swann, the iron-willed matron of Ilwaco society, burst into tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]

However, it takes iron-willed determination to make it onto a college football team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

More of the family madness, it seemed, or perhaps the influence of the iron-willed Nene on her son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

One that had carried him through a difficult youth and forged him into the iron-willed man he'd become.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbidden Enchantment]

Only one point I disagree with in your excellent piece: “Ken Livingstone, a charismatic and iron-willed lefty”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Support Al Kemal for Mayor of London: the People’s Choice! « raincoaster] Reference

The iron-willed Woods is a stone-cold closer who is now 19-2 when he's leading or tied for first after three rounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superlatives flow for Woods] Reference

But James Polk did possess one trait his adversaries always underestimated—his iron-willed political perseverance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Country of Vast Designs] Reference

He wished suddenly that he could be as iron-willed and ruthless as Tresham would undoubtedly be in a situation like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

Did he question that iron-willed, immutable decision to banish his son to a grim boarding school in Staffordshires sticks?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fathers & Sons] Reference

A small minority of Republicans in the House nearly killed the bill because they maintained iron-willed ideological unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medea Benjamin: Time For a Taxpayers Revolt] Reference

Lamont Cranston, the most iron-willed and ruthless fighter of crime pulpdom has ever produced started his career as a druggie?.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW: John C. Wright] Reference

No, these fighters bowed to an iron-willed leader the equal of any in Valdemar, and their ranks held only the trained and seasoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrows Of The Queen]

Schleiermacher and William von Humboldt, clear-headed, iron-willed men, perceived what was needed, and bent all their energies to the task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference

I think the general consensus is that Nancy Pelosi exerted the most iron-willed control over the House since Speaker Joe Cannon more than 100 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Vanity Fair' Writer: What Will Speaker Boehner Do?] Reference

It represents his iron-willed determination to master, to control, to get right on the page what he could could not master or control or get right in his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Education: Two (Education by Poetry)] Reference

With the iron-willed discipline of a woman who had been running a corporation since the age of twenty-four, she forced herself to smile while anxiety shredded her insides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Waters] Reference

But as Queen Rose, Susanna Thompson is suitably regal and iron-willed.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

For as long as she can remember, Gibbs has been head-strong and iron-willed.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

She dressed always in black, was very devout and rich and narrow and iron-willed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference

They tend to take very small sips and remain the essence of iron-willed self-control.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pour] Reference

And covering his face hastily with a handkerchief, the stern and iron-willed man left the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

All arguments were thrown away upon this iron-willed man; he never submitted to the advice or control of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c.] Reference

And fiercest of all those who asked for his head was the iron-willed Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, his former champion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln] Reference

A brave, iron-willed man, this Charles Martel appears to us -- dimly as the light of historic tradition permits us to behold him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

Stern's attorney also noted that Nicole was an iron-willed woman and invariably made her own choices on how to deal with her pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Money Times] Reference

The climate will be right for an iron-willed leader who's not afraid to make some people unhappy to make Michigan a 21st Century state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freep.com - RSS] Reference