Mrs Giuliani's expensive ways and high-handed habits are providing grist for her husband's enemies.
However, they admit that resentment is building over government corruption and high-handed management at state enterprises.
What causes annoyance is the high-handed, clinically technocratic manner in which the reforms are being shoved through.
While we are obliged to obey the courts, we are not obliged to silently accept their high-handed rulings.
Ms. ZEHRA: And so any high-handed step that the establishment takes, you know, it's just exposed within literally minutes.
At other times he appeared to delight in petty conflicts with city leaders, who called him high-handed and autocratic.
Even those who believe Mr Chirac's high-handed bullying was counterproductive tend to think Mr Trichet remains the best candidate on merit.
Few dispute Zimbabwe's need for land reform, but critics charge the government with going about it in a haphazard, high-handed way.
His job was in jeopardy not because of his hardline views but because his high-handed manner has alienated many state legislators.
Mr Miliband said Mr Gove was "high-handed, incompetent and unfair" and urged Mr Cameron to perform a u-turn on the "daft" decision.
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Certainly the civil service, along with Mr Tung, has become more high-handed in dealings with the legislature and, by consequence, with the public.
At first the Taliban were welcomed in this conservative area, yet before long locals felt outsiders from Pakistan were taking over and becoming high-handed.
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It has succeeded in uniting many of the littoral states in the South China Sea against its high-handed refusal to discuss its territorial claims there.
This is a vital check on the sort of arrogant and high-handed decision-making that has come to characterize recent Commerce Department decisions in this area.
Yet Mr Wen is cautious when dealing with high-handed local authorities.
His government is widely seen as high-handed, corrupt and crudely nepotistic.
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At the previous election, voters seem to have blamed Dr Mahathir both for the struggling economy and for the high-handed and corrupt ways of Malaysian officialdom.
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And he has brought with him staffers from his congressional office whose high-handed style has rankled at the CIA. There have been a handful of high-level resignations.
It is certainly true that stick-wielding members of the Young Communist League on the streets of Kathmandu look scary and trade unions allied to the Maoists are often high-handed.
His demands that the Jewish State make serial and unreciprocated concessions to its Palestinian enemies - including adopting indefensible borders - have been dictated in public and high-handed ways.
The Kazakh opposition, like the opposition in Kirgizstan, is convinced that the high-handed behaviour of the rulers of Central Asia is a side-effect of the region's growing geopolitical importance.
They fret that tradition-minded voters are left perplexed, if not outraged, both by the goings-on and the high-handed way in which the government and its friends seems to brush them off.
This entire exercise is extraordinarily high-handed, hubristic and mischievous.
The EU's top-down, high-handed agenda is already stirring doubts.
Mr Thaksin was a high-handed leader convicted of corruption.
Parents complained of a lack of choice and of high-handed treatment from the school board: one aggrieved father who grew up in bureaucracy-racked India said the board's behaviour reminded him of home.
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At the end of the day, Gitmo 2 will probably founder for the same reason Gitmo 1 has: The Congress must enact legislation to implement these high-handed and ill-considered presidential decisions.
Were they so high-handed, so essentially ignorant, that they didn't understand what it would mean to the American people when their IRS the revenue-collecting arm of the U.S. government is revealed as a low, ugly and bullying tool of the reigning powers?
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