The phrase
"iron hand" refers to someone who has strong and strict control over a situation or people. It implies that they are strict, firm, and not easily swayed or influenced.
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A well with a
cast iron hand - pump yields fresh, cold water, carried to the cottage in buckets for drinking, cooking and washing up.
Made from cement and brass, it features brass
coated iron hands and is finished soft, brushed concrete.
The GT8 is a colt that has never before felt saddle and bridle — its equipped with harder springs, stiffer dampers, tauter bushings, more aggressive brakes and almost as much carbon - fiber wing work as a Le Mans car — and is best treated
with iron hands in velvet gloves to avoid any unexpected understeer scrubs or snap - oversteer situations.
The fact Cameron did not feel he had the authority to make his ministers to oppose the Dominic Raab amendment highlighted how volatile and rebellious the Conservative party continues to be, even under the supposedly
iron hand of election strategist Lynton Crosby.
In the new TV spot for Jason Bourne, we get an explanation of the newest Treadstone incarnation —
called Iron Hand — that presumably continues the work of taking normal soldiers and turning them into soulless killing machines.
One of the TV spots seen below drops a big hint about the «
Iron Hand Program», which Nicky describes as «even worse than before».
Now, Lee is determined to stop Parsons and bring Bourne in, even as her boss, CIA Director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones), seems more intent on killing them both
before Iron Hand, the CIA's revolutionary new «black» spying program, goes live.
Or did William Merritt Chase rule from his 10th Street studio with
too iron a hand?
I bought this awesome
cast iron hand to hold jewelry in my bathroom from one of my favorite shops in Columbus, Elm and Iron (they have a shop in Cincinnati too)...
It helped immensely that I knew from my research that the real Count Odo had
an iron hand!
A slogan inscribed on a sign in the Solovki gulag was a simple but exact expression of the essence of utopia: «With
an iron hand we will drive humanity to happiness!»
I think you forgot the multiple crusades, the salem witch trials, the constant degredation of the jewish by the christians and catholics up until right after WW2 and the holocaust, or not even mentioning
the iron hand of the church during the ENTIRE dark ages, the complacency and silent approval of Hitler by the RCC, the fact that Hitler himself grew up a catholic and professed to be doing the will of god.
It is
the iron hand of the given.
Rules aside, the outcome did nothing to assure us that the Saints are anywhere close to the team they used to be, or the team they were with
the iron hand of Sean Payton at the helm.
His dad had
an iron hand, and even his older sisters got their licks in before their brother grew big enough «to send them off to school with black eyes.»
There were times when I would have to remind myself that my child acts a certain way, because he or she was not raised with
an iron hand or where crying was punished — and that is OK.
The 63 - year - old Hawass has become an internationally known figure, sporting an Indiana Jones - style hat in television documentaries and ruling over Egypt's thousands of ancient sites with
an iron hand (Science, 20 January 2006, p. 326).
He begins with a plantation in Alabama where slavery has never been abolished: Mam (Lauren Bacall) rules with
a iron hand, assisted by her foreman Wilhelm (Danny Glover), a slave who believes his people are not ready for the responsibilities of freedom.
Some rule with
an iron hand; others are fairly lax.
As for driving dynamics, there's not much you can ask for it — both the gearbox and engine aren't made for enthusiastic driving session, just like the lax suspension won't control body roll with
an iron hand.
Worse yet, he is subject to
the iron hand of the United States Army.
In March, the company showed just how serious, as brothers Len and Steve Riggio handed over the reins of the company they had run with
an iron hand for decades, appointing Mr. Lynch chief executive.
Clearly Émile's mother represents the staid tradition of a woman of her class whose job was to exert
an iron hand over the doings of her family.
Like I'm doing right now with my first Irish Jimmy Gallagher story,
Iron Hands.
Most of all, they require an owner capable of providing the right dose of persuasion and firmness when training them; basically
an iron hand in a velvet glove.
In spite of
the iron hand of Spain, indigenous uprisings plagued the Viceroyalty for the next 270 years, culminating in wars and finally the Peruvian declaration of independence in 1821.
We then move onto
an iron hand with a flashing repulsor.
With urban crime declining across the country and former prosecutor Rudy Giuliani running the city with
an iron hand, the streets of Gotham appear to be safe again — the fruit, we're told, of unceasing vigilance.
TMF gives them the possibility to achieve their goals out of the beaten track of a very codified art world by uniting forces, using art as
an iron hand inside a velvet glove.
The exhibition presents his recent «Thesaurus» paintings, colourful word chains which descend from phrases such as «top dog» and «king of the hill» into more macho mantras such as «rule with
an iron hand».
Finally, I worry that the reporting about the «
iron hand» shutting down factories to meet energy efficiency targets may overplay the viability of that policy and also feed in to our western stereotypes about how China works.
The military junta is renowned for ruling with
an iron hand, driving its citizens into forced labor, and not allowing free press or assembly.
To many drug users, petty thieves and prostitutes in this economically depressed area he is more than
the iron hand of the law, he is also a counsellor and a friend.
The variety of desktop - like experiences, from Jide's Remix OS to Samsung's DeX, would have not been possible if Google exercised
an iron hand when it came to user experiences.
Sony could have ruled this price point with
an iron hand for another 10 months.
What goes up must come down, and when the capitulation gives way to consolidation,
iron hands will begin to rebuild and reaccumulate.