He wanted to be seen by the electorate as the man with the iron fist protecting Israelis in the south of Israel.
"Initially it was very much the iron fist his way or the highway, " said Warren Barton, the former England international, who is an analyst on Fox Soccer.
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It's the reason why we've been able to overpower the iron fist of fascism and outlast the iron curtain of communism, and enlist free nations and free peoples everywhere in the common cause and common effort of liberty.
It is a policy U-turn from the "iron fist" tactics used against the gangs for years in Central America.
In the years since then, Indonesia has charted its own course through an extraordinary democratic transformation -- from the rule of an iron fist to the rule of the people.
Despite her popularity, Maxima has always carried an air of controversy because her father was an agriculture minister in the military junta that ruled Argentina with an iron fist in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
His begging-to-shake-hands policy towards Iran and the one hand and his iron fist policy towards Israel on the other makes it absolutely clear that Obama will do nothing to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
"We will face anyone who will pose a challenge to the public and private sectors with an iron fist, " the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said.
Its policy there now mirrors that in Tibet, to bring development and economic benefits on the one hand and to deal with security threats with an iron fist on the other.
The military committee, the country's highest security authority, has said the government will not allow al Qaeda to expand and will use an iron fist against the militants in the country's southern provinces.
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The trouble with an iron-fist approach is that it could provide an opening for the military to take a more overt role in governance.
In country after country, people are mobilizing to free themselves from the grip of an iron fist.
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Tortorella conducts business on and off the ice with an iron fist, treating players and media members alike.
Even today, the bureaucracy that controls with an iron fist information about the royals dictates to the press what photos can and cannot be published.
Across the region, those rights that we take for granted are being claimed with joy by those who are prying loose the grip of an iron fist.
The issue starts in current game-time, with Batman lamenting that Superman now governs the world with an iron fist (no pun intended) in his own fascist dictatorship.
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The story is set in Indonesia on the eve of the attempted Communist coup in 1965, and which led to the 30 year rule of Suharto, who ruled the country with an iron fist.
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For four decades, the Qaddafi regime ruled the Libyan people with an iron fist.
The Governor may need an iron fist and a ready lie to lead his people, but Rick just leads and people follow.
His campaign slogan spoke of crushing crime with an "iron fist ", an image reinforced by the clenched fist emblem of his right-wing Patriotic Party.
The Islamic Revolution's iron fist, and willingness to use it against dissenters (who are currently in disarray), means we cannot know whether or when the regime may fall.
His political point regarding Malaysia is sharp and angry: when government, religion, and tradition put desire under an iron fist despite the free market in labor, humans are reduced to beasts of burden, and their desire turns beastly as well.
With Goodell using an iron fist to discipline the league, players have been relatively well behaved.
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Neither has Colombia adopted an iron fist regime like the one led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee both attended the war games, codenamed "Iron Fist", which were held near Pokhran on Friday.
On the SRA's role, he said Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott had envisaged the body to be his "iron fist in an iron glove" - but it could never have lived up to that role.
Only Mr Morino is actually in the process of giving away a fortune he earned for himself, which makes him less prone to wrapping his iron fist in a velvet glove than the other authors, who are all professional philanthrocrats of different kinds.
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It will use engagement to curb their proliferation, but wants to have an iron fist in reserve if the North stays intransigent.
That is, he argued that it made sense to surrender massive amounts of strategically critical land to a terrorist organization because Arafat and his associates would repress their people with an iron fist, unfettered by the rule of law and Palestinian human rights organizations.
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