In the process, it developed an ironhanded political tradition.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. China, 221 B.C.E.-589 C.E] Reference

The ironhanded young Yezdigerd seemed more likely than his sire to attempt the overthrow of Khoraja, so the Khorajans were looking to their defenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan and The Mists of Door]

An admirer of John F. Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher and Singapore's ironhanded Lee Kuan Yew, she describes herself as "a strong, authoritative disciplinarian whom the Filipino people will respond to" -- acknowledging a similarity to Ferdinand Marcos on that score.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take That, Fungus Face] Reference

North Korean teams with only a handful playing outside of the ironhanded communist state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE] Reference

Right ceases to reign, force asserts itself, and Bismarck, ironhanded, invincible, holds sway over a scared, unresisting, one may say a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891] Reference

By this change of front the gallant little corps which had so long maintained its ground, was now in some measure relieved, and no longer subject to the murderous strokes of the ironhanded Cromwellians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion. By the author of "The Kentuckian in New-York." In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference

What most on the far left have failed to awake to is that the Socialism they fight for-one of so called "social justice" - is but a mere ruse for the true objective is global government and ironhanded citizen control the world over-the permanent death of freedom and the installation of a police state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Malcontents] Reference