His columns revealed a nostalgic fondness, not uncommon in newly liberated Russia, for the iron hand of authority.
In the quarters to come, we may yet see the invisible hand inside the iron glove.
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.
The present company was founded in 1940 by Ramon Areces and was taken over, upon his death in 1989, by his nephew Isidoro Alvarez who still runs the company with an iron hand.
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My eldest brother hurt his hand at the iron works, so he couldn't freely move his fingers.
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Locals in Ambon argue that the military, threatened by a civilian administration and the possibility of prosecution for human-rights abuses, has again manipulated the violence to justify an iron hand.
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Perhaps the more significant, and less noted, event that forced Romney to switch his protective coloring was the resignation in September 2004 of House Speaker Tom Finneran, a staunch social conservative who ruled the Massachusetts House with an iron hand.
From a French fur trader with an iron hand to the Army Corps of Engineers reshaping the riverbed, Indian casinos built on brownfields to 280, 000 radioactive mice buried at the Falls, many of Niagara's stories are like the drums secreted in its landfills: shoved out of sight, covered over to look presentable, and driven by with glazed eyes, a quick flick of the radio volume.
There are even a few craftsmen who can still fashion a pair of scissors the old way, bashing the molten steel and iron together entirely by hand, and a few of those techniques have been retained in some of the modern-day factory-made products.
The feeble struggle of this authoritarian post-Soviet leader, who has ruled with an iron hand since 1989, against becoming the centre of a personality cult provides a diverting spectacle.
Cashin thumped on the corrugated iron wall with his left hand.
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.
As long as an iron hand throttled dissent, the uglier manifestations of tribalism were held in check.
With an iron in his hand, he failed to make birdie on the par-5 opening hole, the easiest on the golf course.
The nearly 15-foot-tall front gate was hand worked from wrought iron with three-dimensional flowers, gold-painted leaves and curving vines.
The seemingly tedious task also requires stamina - and facial muscles and a hand of iron.
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Chinalco took its original stake in the hopes of blocking a merger that China feared would hand too much control of iron ore prices to one company.
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The militia came and tossed in hand grenades dots of sunlight still peep through little shrapnel holes in the corrugated iron roof.
It is hand-painted in the ceiling, carved in wooden doors and fashioned in the cast-iron latticework of the window guards.
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