5 Sentences With "ironhanded"

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Years ago, people resentful of this kind of ironhanded censorship would go to WeChat's foreign competitors, like Facebook, Twitter, Line, Facebook Messenger, Telegram or WhatsApp. from The New York Times
The movement drew its base from Filipinos angered by the dictator Ferdinand Marcos's ironhanded rule, and the Philippine Army estimated that the rebel forces at their height numbered 25,000. from The New York Times
Editorial The scathing federal report this week on the reality of racist abuse by the police in Baltimore was hardly news to the African-American neighborhoods most victimized by ironhanded law enforcement. from The New York Times
His mother was judged, according to the standards of the time, to be ironhanded and manipulative; she viewed her husband, a meek man whose soul, Lowell wrote, "went underground" in his forties, as feckless, dandyish, and abstract—a judgment Lowell shared, though he tempered it with pity. from New Yorker
France's foreign minister this week defended the strikes against Chadian rebels before a handful of puzzled members of Parliament who wondered why the country was again propping up an ironhanded African dictator — albeit one whose relatively efficient military is considered vital in the fight against terrorists. from The New York Times