The US and Britain have compromised to buy goodwill, retaining the right to strike with an iron fist in a velvet glove. |
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It was the tyrants ruling the Confederacy with an iron fist who kept her from her mother and me. |
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They are the side effects of a music oligopoly that exercises its international political power with an iron fist. |
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His father is a spineless jellyfish who lets his wife rule with an iron fist. |
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Today, the enterprise of spreading the gospel of free markets is predicated on the iron fist of overwhelming American military power. |
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Yet at Tynecastle he knows his first job will involve the hand of friendship, not the iron fist. |
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One farmer has managed to create a small oasis in the middle of the storm, where he lords over everyone else with an iron fist. |
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It would be remiss not to include the hypocrisy of police breaking the law themselves, while simultaneously enforcing it with an iron fist. |
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Once upon a time, colonial Britain ruled India with an iron fist in a velvet glove. |
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His girlfriend runs a laundromat with an iron fist and has no time for his artistic pretensions. |
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A misfit gang of working-class street toughs from Queens, the Ramones were ruled with an iron fist by guitarist Johnny. |
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Ressler, who hides an iron fist in a velvet glove, did not miss the opportunity to praise them, while having a dig at current technical director. |
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Made with throwaway good humour, here was an iron fist in a velvet glove. |
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Believing that the settlers of Red River were eager to join Confederation, Ontarians could only assume that Riel was ruling with an iron fist. |
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We had a tremendous team, and he led that team with an iron fist. |
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Yes, Saddam Hussein has ruled Iraq with an iron fist, he is an evil dictator. |
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It has recently ruled over the country with an iron fist, increasingly solidifying its noose on civil rights and governance. |
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One more time, for the more than half-century that he has ruled with an iron fist over his grandfather's heritage, like the dragon of the Ring over the Nibelung's gold. |
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Her father brings her to Nashville, Tennessee, and under his iron fist she buckles down and lands her first broadcasting job before her 20th birthday. |
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Her mother was a powerful queen who ruled the kingdom with an iron fist. |
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The former believed in the role of the state as a provider, while the latter favored an iron fist approach to governance. |
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Mr President, President Lansana Conté was the archetypal African strong man, a corrupt dictator who ruled the people of Guinea with an iron fist. |
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These organizations are managed with an iron fist and have the means to establish monopolies through a well targeted use of violence, etc. |
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As House Majority Leader, DeLay ruled his roost with an iron fist that makes Nancy Pelosi look like Mary Poppins. |
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Buyers control the sales equation, and they control it with an iron fist. |
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Despite its grand, stately appearance, this fine city struggles, shrouded in a shadow of gloom and misery, crushed under an iron fist of oppression. |
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After Ukraine being under the iron fist and the boot of the Soviet Union for over 40 years, it was the first time I was able to meet with people who were duly elected in a democratic process. |
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There remains an iron fist in Ms. Rice's velvet glove. |
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In relation to Central and Eastern European countries, we have had success with our policy, which can probably best be characterised as an iron fist in a velvet glove. |
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Call this a bipolar disorder or an iron fist in a velvet glove, but the fact remains that Coventry successfully achieved the purest form of GT motoring. |
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Perhaps you should also use the iron fist in your area, but when the iron fist is directed against people, then it will be difficult and not just the officials will be affected. |
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Firstly, it was announced in the media in Poland that fifty-one complaints have been lodged, and in Parliament it is said that an iron fist is needed. |
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The iron fist of the Prime Minister, desperate to keep his job, could come down on anyone, any time, anyplace, in his attempts to fend off corruption charges. |
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Rather than wait for Albertans to elect their own senator under Alberta's Senates Election Act, the Prime Minister has used an iron fist and smashed Alberta's right to have a democratic election. |
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However the plan was seriously contemplated to the point that in the same year cereal magnate A. K. Kellogg, although known as a capitalist who ran his company with an iron fist, proved to be a pioneer with a radical idea. |
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Governing with an iron fist, he helped with the eventual suppression of Inca uprisings led by Manco Inca. |
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An iron fist from the city leaders did not appear to be unknown. |
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Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled Guatemala with an iron fist during 1982-83, said he plans to run for president in November despite a law banning former dictators from office. |
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Doctor Strange, Iron Fist, Black Panther and The Runaways are other projects on the horizon. |
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