| But then her public championing of compassionate causes is largely at odds with the high-handed way she has treated those who obstruct her. |
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| This refusal to have an enquiry is one more high-handed response to the reasonable concerns of the law-abiding public. |
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| At the council meeting, Labour's David Green said the decision had been high-handed and senseless. |
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| He himself said the Government's handling of the crisis appeared high-handed and unsympathetic. |
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| She has a reputation as an arrogant, high-handed judge, but at least she presumably knows what she's doing. |
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| As far as I am concerned it was a high-handed decision made without any regard for the feelings of the local people. |
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| As a result of this high-handed attitude the credibility of the ministry has been severely weakened and it will take time for it to be rebuilt. |
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| Lacking any grand political vision that might engage us, the European authorities resort instead to issuing high-handed advice on our habits and lifestyles. |
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| Almost everyone is forsworn at some point, and high-handed rhetoric is continually enlisted to justify it. |
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| Many others may not have been reported due to fear of dishonour, further humiliation or the high-handed dismissal of complaints. |
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| As affluent western countries, we must not start talking in a high-handed manner about what we consider to be the best approach. |
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| A certain high-handed arrogance has been apparent despite public relations by Sellafield in recent years. |
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| You want to provide Mali with a strong institution of justice to protect and defend its population from the high-handed actions of others. |
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| Indeed, some have even refused to simplify their results out of high-handed attitudes dressed up as professional principles. |
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| How could she be attracted to such a rude, egotistical, high-handed, bossy man like him? |
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| Yes, he has angered many colleagues by his high-handed behaviour during the past six years. |
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| Even supporters admit the way Anderson has introduced the plan has been high-handed. |
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| Its decision to remain outside the law demonstrates high-handed contempt for the rule of European Union law and must not go unchallenged. |
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| The public complained of their high-handed behaviour and uncivil ways in public spaces. |
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| In the twentieth century they went from high-handed neutralism to reluctant participation in a European adventure. |
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| Unfortunately, the way this policy was implemented was perceived as high-handed and arrogant by many of the pensioners who thought they were simply being robbed. |
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| This smacks of authoritarianism and of a high-handed approach to state affairs, again reinforcing the notion that there is no real or sufficient balance of power. |
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| While I am wholly in favour of recycling, I feel York council is going about their new system in a high-handed way without consulting those it affects. |
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| Such high-handed attitudes would now be thought patronising. |
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| Their initial response was very high-handed and rather arrogant. |
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| We are not trying to play the high-handed human rights idealists who are against realpolitik and interests. |
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| Representatives of many Member States understandably object to the directive because they are afraid of high-handed monitoring practices. |
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| The really galling element here is not that mistakes were made, but that their consequences for the taxpayer have been dismissed with such high-handed contempt. |
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| If an employer has been unfair or high-handed in carrying out the discharge, the employee may be awarded additional damages. |
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| Mr Thaksin was a high-handed leader convicted of corruption. |
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| In contrast to the abrasive and high-handed Zakir, Ibrahim is an admired figure among the insurgents. |
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| Petty's attitude is certainly high-handed. |
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| The United States' high-handed decision to override the UN has proven a miscalculation for which the national economy is having to pay, as we are now seeing. |
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| Groucho an authentic and high-handed grouch! |
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| The Karabakh dispute grew out of the early Soviet policy of granting a political status to territories, based on ethnic criteria, but then executing the policy in a high-handed and haphazard manner. |
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| His manner was often high-handed and brusque. |
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| This is an illustration of the wholly high-handed way in which Mr Lukashenko operates, and also a demonstration of the absence of any intention on his part to hand over power by way of the election process. |
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| We all know that it will, at best, be a very big task to bring the Commission's ponderous and high-handed bureaucracy up to the standard we require of public administration in our home countries. |
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| However, the Group of 77 had acted in a high-handed and irresponsible manner and had created an unfortunate precedent by breaking the traditional consensus on the issue of least developed countries. |
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| He had an equally high-handed way with the monasteries in his diocese and in his filet year as bishop deposed no fewer than eleven abbots and priors. |
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| If we take operationalism as a commitment to increase empirical content, Bridgman was not so much a high-handed judge who pronounced upon the meaningfulness of concepts in a black-and-white manner. |
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| I am so dead set against the high-handed government imposing its will on workers and other citizens simply by pulling the string of a majority government. |
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| Primitive politics, xenophobia, and high-handed attitudes to the niceties of democracy and the rule of law, have been shown to be electoral liabilities, not a surefire route to success. |
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| It is fair and square to find that the DPRK took its steps of action to cope with the high-handed act and threat aimed at depriving the DPRK of its rights to peaceful economic construction. |
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