Egypt ultimately just replaced an iron-fisted dictatorship with iron-fisted military rule.
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On the divisional throne sat an iron-fisted champion in Jose Aldo.
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And yet what an iron fisted out of control prosecutor this guy is.
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This whole episode has been a demonstration of Felix's descent into iron-fisted madness.
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They also represent a major challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping's's iron-fisted rule.
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Even Russia's iron-fisted fashionista, Empress Elizabeth prohibited the training of bears in 1752.
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Before Communism, Chengdu endured iron-fisted rule by the Nationalist regime of Chiang Kai-shek.
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Across a broad spectrum of society, his policies and iron-fisted authoritarianism generate much resentment.
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And Egyptians re-elected iron-fisted President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, presumably with 97% support.
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Paul Kagame, Rwanda's iron-fisted president, hopes that his country will become "the Singapore of Africa".
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He also came away from the dispute with something else: an iron-fisted approach to business.
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THE PRESIDENT He had a good run as an iron-fisted dictator, but now that's over.
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Putin appoints regional governors instead of holding elections, including the iron-fisted Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
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International human rights groups have routinely criticized Mr. Sisi's iron-fisted policies, saying they fuel radicalization.
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After Assad's iron-fisted crackdown on the protests, Sarout took up arms and became a wanted man.
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This is music to the ears of most iron-fisted leaders, including those in the Middle East.
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It plans to wage an "iron-fisted" campaign against smog this winter, provincial governor Xu Qin said this week.
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Should Trump win, even better: The GOP gets an iron-fisted governing trifecta, plus a rubber-stamping Supreme Court.
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Throughout General Park's 18 years of iron-fisted rule, students and workers agitated and risked their lives for democracy.
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The president has in the past defended militias as a way of imposing a parallel but iron-fisted rule.
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Shijiazhuang said it will also launch a punishment system to push local authorities to adopt "iron-fisted pollution-control measures".
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He becomes an iron-fisted dictator there, and in the book's second issue, he fights a Russian version of Batman.
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Critics said M.Q.M. maintained iron-fisted control over the city through fear and intimidation with a network of armed enforcers.
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Apple is infamous for its iron-fisted control over which apps are made available for purchase on its App Store.
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Iron-fisted policing tactics have only exacerbated the carnage without addressing the underlying social ills contributing to the gangs&apos expansion.
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But Myanmar's long history of iron-fisted rule has resulted in a deep interweaving of political activity and the belles lettres.
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The Knicks don't necessarily have an iron-fisted grasp on the zeitgeist, but the Nets continue to be a rudderless mess.
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The Dispatch President-elect Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has pitched himself as an iron-fisted crusader against the country's soaring crime.
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The struggle between these two jousting politicos, between the iron-fisted realist and the silver-tongued idealist, drives the novel's plot.
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But the pair work at the UN to promote a worldview that puts sovereignty and iron-fisted order ahead of universal rights.
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His iron-fisted approach to crime (he would give police a "blank cheque" to shoot miscreants) is popular with a bigger group.
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He's widely regarded as a brutal, iron-fisted ruler, and his regime has been linked to torture and other human rights abuse.
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He seemed to personify the fire-breathing, helmet-smacking, iron-fisted drill instructor, his head shaved bare, whistle dangling from his neck.
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May's failure to corral her own party has upended Britain's political system, where prime ministers typically exercise iron-fisted control over Parliament.
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The changes have come as China's leader, Xi Jinping, has pushed hard to extend the party's iron-fisted rule over the internet.
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Ultimately, Mr. Mubarak's legacy may be Mr. el-Sisi's iron-fisted rule, said Andrew Miller of the Project On Middle East Democracy.
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They see the rise of iron-fisted nationalists in China, Russia and Turkey, and fear that democracy's post-cold-war march is over.
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News Analysis LONDON — The annals of British politics are filled with stories about the government's iron-fisted, sometimes terrifying control of parliamentary affairs.
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It skates close to an admission that Xinjiang is indeed under iron-fisted rule, and that the world should be glad of it.
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When the world fragments into small, isolated communities like the Outpost in Poe Blythe; when iron-fisted rulers distribute scarce resources to needy populations.
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Sheikh Hasina, the current, iron-fisted prime minister of Bangladesh, has recently moved to reduce the legal age of marriage from 18 to 16.
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Next came a Marxist junta known as the Derg, and then, after 1991, the iron-fisted rule of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.
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It's believed to be the first time Kim has answered a question from a foreign journalist, a landmark event for the iron-fisted dictator.
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His early plans to modernize Syria have given way in the last five years to the iron-fisted authoritarianism of his father, Hafez al-Assad.
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In Trump's inaugural address, he painted a bleak picture of "American carnage" and implied that he would take an iron-fisted approach to public order.
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The iron-fisted Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin), 74, has ruled the Soviet Union for decades and racked up countless crimes against humanity and millions of victims.
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And in a country traumatized by violent crime, his iron-fisted approach to law and order has appealed to voters in traditionally left-wing strongholds.
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And in the lead-up to the Olympics, the generals who ruled the South relaxed their iron-fisted rule, hoping to soften the country's image.
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Bloomberg's running as the antidote to Trump, but when it comes to their belief in the guiding hand of iron-fisted authority, they're strongman soulmates.
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Of course, the iron-fisted majority leader, Mitch McConnell, is not among them, and he has been working hard to keep the troops in line.
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Unfortunately, it seems HP has now returned to its iron-fisted ways, once again locking down the use of third-party ink with a software update.
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Now President Trump has the opportunity to deprive Putin of the foreign enemy the Russian president needs to unify his country behind his iron-fisted rule.
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There could be ramifications inside what has traditionally be an iron-fisted hierarchy inside the N.F.L. That's the nature of movements: They don't necessarily respect boundaries.
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The changes are part of what some observers have called an Uzbek Spring, following the death in 2016 of the country's iron-fisted leader, Islam Karimov.
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Amin's new home is in a converted prison once used by Saddam Hussein to hold political dissidents during his iron-fisted rule spanning more than two decades.
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The first challenge for Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe's President and successor to the iron-fisted Robert Mugabe, is to stabilize, then revitalize, an economy Mugabe left in ruins.
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The Senate majority leader has earned the nickname the grim reaper for his iron-fisted grip on the chamber, but an impeachment trial is harder to control.
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"I think the greatest progress is our relationship," he said, before praising the iron-fisted despot as a "great leader" who could see his country's economy blossom.
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Myanmar's emergence from nearly half a century of iron-fisted military rule less than a decade ago brought glitzy malls, smart phones, fast food and Western hotel chains.
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Though independent monitors said the ballot was rigged, most Kazakhstanis have accepted his iron-fisted rule in exchange for rising living standards—thanks mainly to high oil prices.
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Particular turns of phrase also were no-nos: "iron-fisted," for example, when used to describe the president, since any criticism of him could land you in jail.
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It may be difficult to remember now, but the Syrian tragedy began in 2011 with peaceful protests against an iron-fisted system that has governed Syria for decades.
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Still, IAG's boss, Willie Walsh (who earned €8.8m in 2015, or 364 times that of his cabin crew), has never erred from his iron-fisted approach to union negotiations.
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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev won a landslide in the election, which was called following the recent resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the iron-fisted leader who had ruled for three decades.
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The phrase "Get 'em out" has replaced "You're fired" in Mr. Trump's vernacular, offering him an air of iron-fisted authority to buttress the image of toughness he projects.
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He spent the fall showing different groups of visitors what he calls his love letters from North Korea's iron-fisted dictator, Kim Jong-un, expressing admiration for Mr. Trump.
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In the aftermath, a chorus of American lawmakers from both parties have urged the crown prince to loosen his iron-fisted grip by releasing some of the nonviolent activists.
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An iron-fisted security policy has been Sisi's answer to every challenge -- even to the slightest display of discontent by the poor that have been left reeling under austerity measures.
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There were also doubts about Kim's willingness to give up his country's nuclear weapons, which is required for sanctions to be lifted but may threaten the leader's iron-fisted rule.
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Earlier, a jubilant Lasso claimed victory and told supporters in Guayaquil that he would free political prisoners and heal divisions created by 10 years of iron-fisted rule by Correa.
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But the EIU sees presidential and parliamentary power staying entrenched with the AKP and its nationalist partner, MHP, ushering in what could be a new era of iron-fisted rule.
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He is part of the Samarkand clan Karimov belonged to, and his dogged loyalty to the late boss guaranteed his survival through the political purges of Karimov's iron-fisted rule.
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The shah, Washington's closest ally in the Persian Gulf, had fled Tehran in January 21979 in the face of a burgeoning uprising against his 22 years of iron-fisted rule.
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Similarly, "Enemies" begins with J. Edgar Hoover's iron-fisted reign at the FBI, before getting into the meat of the narrative, rifling through Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair and Clinton investigation.
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They flew in stony silence, furious that Colombia's iron-fisted president, with whom they had a "shared ideology," as Mr. Giraldo put it, had broken his promise not to extradite them.
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"I was accused of insulting President Karimov," he said, referring to Islam A. Karimov, the thin-skinned and iron-fisted former president of Uzbekistan, a strategically important country north of Afghanistan.
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But those characters — the young, spoiled heir Bao-Yu, the introverted but passionate Dai-Yu, the iron-fisted matriarch "Peppercorn" Xi-Feng — are utterly compelling, and the effort will be worthwhile.
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Owais is one of a rising number of local militants fighting for independence of Kashmir - an insurgency being spread on social media amid India's sustained, iron-fisted rule of the region.
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After making friends with autocrats around the world, Mr. Trump has drawn a red line with Nicolás Maduro, demanding that the iron-fisted president of Venezuela hand power to his opposition.
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In early 1979, Iran's shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi — who had stayed in power thanks partly to a C.I.A.-led coup in 1953 — fled a domestic uprising against his iron-fisted rule.
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In early 1979, Iran's shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi — who had stayed in power thanks partly to a C.I.A.-led coup in 1953 — fled a domestic uprising against his iron-fisted rule.
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Immigration policy was not a dominant issue during last year's presidential campaign in Brazil, which Mr. Bolsonaro won by vowing to take an iron-fisted approach toward violent crime and graft.
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In fact, Kurdish revolutionaries in parts of Syria took up secular socialism as their ideology as they asserted independence from Bashar al-Assad's iron-fisted regime and went to war against ISIS.
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The crisis could upend Mr. Xi's agenda for months or longer, even undermining his vision of a political system that offers security and growth in return for submission to iron-fisted authoritarianism.
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But the wall — symbolic of an iron-fisted immigration policy and providing a rallying cry for his supporters — has proved to be as divisive in theory as it would be in practice.
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Even if a company doesn't completely dominate its sector, if its platform can exercise what amounts to an iron-fisted control over consumers, perhaps it should be considered a monopoly after all.
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Their parents fled Communism, leading them to see government mandates — like one ordering a religious man to bake a cake for an event he opposes — as a sign of an iron-fisted regime.
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Mr. Trump said on Saturday that he would visit the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea on Sunday and publicly invited Mr. Kim, the North's iron-fisted leader, to meet him there.
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Mr. Yoon, 48, mounted a campaign nearly a decade ago against the legendarily iron-fisted former mayor, Thomas M. Menino, attempting unsuccessfully to energize young progressives and minority communities in a movement for change.
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But the Mexican government's new hard-line posture on migration entered a new phase this week with its iron-fisted response to a large migrant caravan of Central Americans who sought to enter Mexico.
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Now that those links have lost their relevance, residents' dislike of Mr Emanuel, who is perceived as "brusque", "iron-fisted" and beholden to rich donors and corporate interests, has begun to play a bigger role.
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Forced labor, prison camps, sexual abuse and denial of individual basic liberties — food, sanitation, health and expression — are repressive tools utilized by the regime to terrorize and dominate its citizens under its iron-fisted rule.
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Blocton paints grid-based abstractions, but her treatment of the surface seems expressly designed to send Clement Greenberg, the preeminent postwar critical voice and iron-fisted arbiter of formalism and flatness, howling into the night.
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The Myanmar military ceded power to a nominally civilian government in 2011 after nearly half a century of iron-fisted rule, ushering in reforms and opening one of Southeast Asia's poorest countries to foreign investors.
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This is further reinforced by the fact that, unlike Soviet-era premiers, Putin can't call on a totalitarian state's iron-fisted control over the population or the thorough domination of society by the communist party.
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The revolt, which has spread from Khartoum to 173 cities in 15 of Sudan's 18 provinces, is led by disgruntled young professionals from the classes that were long tolerant of Mr. Bashir's iron-fisted rule.
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The protests were a rare instance of open opposition to the iron-fisted rule of President Yahya Jammeh, who has ruled the tiny West African country for two decades after seizing power in a bloodless coup.
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Nakia, expert in all things espionage, and Okoye, whose iron-fisted hand-to-hand combat skills and use of a spear are unparalleled, are in disguise — dressed to the nines and truly a sight to behold.
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It's hard not to think that Billy Elliot dancing down the streets of Durham didn't figure into the making of "Memoire," and that Margaret Thatcher's iron-fisted politics aren't part of the fabric of the work.
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But his jeremiad message – that Brazil is a dysfunctional basket case that needs an iron-fisted ruler to restore order – is resonating with Brazilians dispirited by the nation's soaring crime, moribund economy and entrenched political corruption.
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The hotel empress, whose iron-fisted management style earned her the nickname the Queen of Mean, grew up in Brooklyn, the daughter of a hatmaker, and married the real-estate developer Harry B. Helmsley in 1972.
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Stephanie Beatriz, the actress who played Brooklyn Nine-Nine's iron-fisted detective Rosa Diaz, penned an essay for GQ on Wednesday about her bisexuality — and how it remains emphatically unchanged by her decision to marry a man.
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BEIJING — A liberal Chinese writer living in Germany has said security officers in China detained three members of his family in connection with a mysterious online letter that denounced the iron-fisted rule of President Xi Jinping.
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Mr. Daley, the iron-fisted personification of 20th-century machine politics, would have found the array of MacBooks, ironic mustaches and turmeric ginger-pumpkin chais as fantastical as the mythical animal from which the cafe takes its name.
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After their first meeting in September, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly when Mr. Trump was running for president, he hailed Mr. Sisi as "a fantastic guy" and spoke admiringly of his iron-fisted methods.
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As members of the Jewish community, the family fared much better than my relatives who stayed in Budapest and lost their property, and in some cases their lives, to Nazism followed by iron-fisted Soviet rule by proxy.
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Here's some of what he's said about other iron-fisted world leaders: Xi Jinping: 'He is a terrific person' As candidate, Donald Trump often described China as the enemy -- accusing it of manipulating currency and effectively stealing manufacturing jobs.
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A posting in China offered a glimpse of a model based on iron-fisted repression—a situation complicated by the fact that the Muslim religion and ethnic identities often overlap, notably among the Uighur minority in China's far west.
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The Republican acquisition of iron-fisted control of the Senate crucially depended on the defeat of three incumbent Democrats who represent less affluent red states — four, if Florida is included: Claire McCaskill, Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly and Bill Nelson.
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The measures permit the creation of private wired and Wi-Fi internet networks in homes and businesses and allow the importation of routers and other networking equipment — though also maintain the government's iron-fisted monopoly over commercial internet access.
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Melissa Leo is Goldie, an iron-fisted owner of a comedy club in 1970s Los Angeles, when David Letterman, Jay Leno and Richard Pryor's careers ascended, and stand-ups would do anything for a shot at Johnny Carson's stage.
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He has appalled the German government with his open admiration for the iron-fisted nationalism of Mr Putin, his hints that he might lift sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, and his suggestions that NATO is obsolete.
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But moving up and down in weight, for good or ill, is a standard remedy for a fighter's career—usually it's a way to breathe life into stagnancy or open a window of opportunity after losing to an iron-fisted champion.
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Future of Another Timeline Vivian Liao is a genius inventor and entrepreneur — the next Steve Jobs, basically — until she's flung to the far future where the entire galaxy is under the iron-fisted rule of the titular Empress of Forever.
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It even explores the pitfalls of various forms of government, from democracy's potential for mob rule manipulated by showy speakers to the potential for personal power seeking in a republic to the dangers of iron-fisted, people-crushing authoritarian rule.
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The country's leader, Hun Sen, marked his 30th anniversary in office last year, and has been the subject of criticism from global organisations like Human Rights Watch, which portray him as a iron-fisted leader with an oppressive grip over the country.
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In the eight months since his first encounter with Kim in Singapore, Trump has repeatedly claimed his diplomatic endeavors have led to tremendous strides toward reducing tensions with North Korea and convincing its young, iron-fisted ruler to relinquish his country's nuclear weapons.
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Ei Than was one of around 2,500 people thrown off military-owned land at Mingaladon in a mass eviction that gives a glimpse into the challenges Suu Kyi faces in sharing power with the armed forces after nearly 50 years of iron-fisted junta rule.
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"This is another way to cheat the voters of their right to vote in this election," Mahathir said earlier this week, although the veteran leader has himself held weekday polls three times during his iron-fisted 22-year rule in the Southeast Asian nation.
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OSAKA, Japan — President Trump said on Saturday that he would visit the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea on Sunday, and he publicly invited Kim Jong-un, the North's iron-fisted leader, to meet him there for what would be their third get-together.
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Mr. Assad's opponents have for years accused his government — and notably its iron-fisted security forces and disproportionate hold on power of the Shiite Alawite minority — of fueling the radicalization of Sunnis and contributing to the spread of extremist groups like the Islamic State.
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The partisan move was another sign of the coarsening relations between the parties on Capitol Hill and a warning that the appetite for iron-fisted majority rule is growing in the Senate not diminishing and could lead to the weakening of the legislative filibuster.
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Both appointments echoed the iron-fisted control over all things consumer-facing that was given to Hedi Slimane during his tenure at Yves Saint Laurent, during which he famously transformed that brand into one of the fastest-growing names in the parent company Kering's portfolio.
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Rather than being an iron-fisted attempt to reshape a trend or push consumers to play a certain way, Switch has the feel of an open hand: An attempt to meet players on their own terms, to allow them to define how the system should be used.
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If Trump has veered off-message, Republican leaders have managed to maintain iron-fisted control over their bill, successfully passing it out of both the Energy and Commerce and the Ways and Means committees without a single substantive amendment -- despite sessions of a combined 45 hours. Rep.
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Mobile products, like the iPod Touch, AirPods, and the iPhone, get Lightning ports, where Apple can take advantage of the iron-fisted control that its MFi licensing program has over what you can and can't plug in, along with the extra licensing profits to go with it.
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If Mr. Guaidó's gambit succeeds, he and allied opposition leaders will have pulled off an astonishing feat: presiding over a peaceful transition to democracy that they hope will put Venezuela on a path toward recovery following years of economic collapse, widespread graft and iron-fisted rule.
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The president has hosted or praised autocrats from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Philippines and Kazakhstan, "fell in love" with North Korea's Kim Jong-un and upended his entire Syria policy after a phone call with Turkey's iron-fisted leader, triggering the resignation in protest of his own defense secretary.
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The story was a way for Mr. al-Bashir, who was ousted Thursday after 22013 years of iron-fisted rule over Sudan, to play up his humble origins — to show that he remained a man of the people who, like him, hailed from dusty farming villages on the Nile.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A far-right candidate who has spoken fondly of Brazil's onetime military dictatorship came close to an outright victory in the country's presidential election on Sunday, as Brazilians expressed disgust with politics as usual and endorsed an iron-fisted approach to fighting crime and corruption.
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In a matter of minutes, all of our Twitter timelines and Facebook feeds were overflowing with the grim news that Cyborg had been notified of a potential violation by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), the iron-fisted agency that the UFC has charged with cleaning up the sport.
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They're the ones drawn into the cult of personality, or who worship at the altar of the iron-fisted leader, or who endorse the divine right of kings, or who do none of these things but understand the value of remaining in this person's orbit to benefit from their favor or reflected power.
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The coming summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un presents the riskiest of situations for the United States, however, for it pits the least knowledgeable modern-day president on foreign affairs against a shrewd young dictator who's maintaining the family dynasty in the same iron-fisted way as his father and grandfather.
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As well as stirring horrific historical memories, the mass grave on the building site for an luxury housing development has ignited a very contemporary debate about corruption, abuse of power and lingering anti-Semitism in a country that has been ruled for 25 years by the same iron-fisted leader, President Alexander Lukashenko.
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More than five years after the Obama administration urged President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to step down in the face of the protests, it is delivering arms and aid to his successor once removed, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former general whose iron-fisted rule exceeds anything Mr. Mubarak ever managed to pull off.
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President Rodrigo Duterte — nicknamed "The Punisher" for his iron-fisted approach to drug-related crime during his tenure as mayor of the city of Davao — said during a late-night news conference on Saturday in his hometown that the Philippines could leave the UN and form a rival organization with China and other countries.
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Trump aides no longer talk about a grand bargain with Russia, offering President Vladimir Putin a free hand in Ukraine in exchange for iron-fisted support in the fight against Islamic State: a loud advocate for such a deal, Michael Flynn, the president's first national security adviser, was fired for lying about contacts with Russian envoys.
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Again, sticking with the most benign possible view, Mr Kushner, who met Mr Kislyak in Trump Tower in New York at the start of December, in a meeting that the White House did not confirm until many months later, wanted to explore a grand bargain between America and Russia, perhaps involving Russian forces launching an unsqueamish, iron-fisted assault on Islamist terrorists in Syria, in exchange for Mr Trump granting Mr Putin a free hand in Ukraine and other bits of his backyard.
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For fans who are weary of the empire's grip, the Falcons' resistance may be their only hope... Cast Patriots coach Bill Belichick — Emperor of a dynasty and diabolical strategist Falcons coach Dan Quinn — A defensive guru and spirited leader focused on breaking the Patriots' grip on power Patriots quarterback Tom Brady — Dark master of the art of handling a football — inflated or deflated Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan — An accomplished warrior well-versed in the ways of remaining cool under pressure Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman — Brady's right-hand man as they execute their iron-fisted battle plans Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones — A confident, aggressive, young gladiator with deadly hands It's sure to be a battle of galactic proportions.
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