Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu have shown that they could rule with an iron hand, without letting political rivals get under their skin.

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The new arrivals rule their children with an iron hand.

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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.

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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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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.

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"Hugo Chavez ruled Venezuela with an iron hand and his passing has left a political void that we hope will be filled peacefully and through a constitutional and democratic process, grounded in the Venezuelan constitution and adhering to the Inter-American Democratic Charter, " said Sen.

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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.

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With an iron in his hand, he failed to make birdie on the par-5 opening hole, the easiest on the golf course.

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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.

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