This partly reflects some Europeans' long-standing resentment of what they see as America's high-handedness.

ECONOMIST: Europe and the United States

This mixture of sloppiness, lack of communication and high-handedness gives the IPCC's critics a lot to work with.

ECONOMIST: Glaciers and the IPCC

He complained vociferously about Twitter's apparent high-handedness in handing over his account to the owners of the bridge without telling him.

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This brazen high- handedness, based on nothing more than a judges whims about what he thought was right for the people, was too much even for his peers to stomach.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

The centre appears to lose little by such high-handedness.

ECONOMIST: China's other face

Mr Musharraf's high-handedness has won radical separatists more sympathy.

ECONOMIST: No end in sight to the rebellion

Singaporeans have accused critics of the project of high-handedness and of overlooking changes in the city-state in recent years that have encouraged public debate, including the emergence of a thriving blog culture.

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That may sound surprising, but high levels of testosterone in the womb have been linked to several other brain-related phenomena, including left-handedness, dyslexia and female homosexuality.

ECONOMIST: Autism