| Ever mindful of the need to preserve its iron-fisted rule, the leadership knows it must be sensitive to public opinion. |
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| We need some of their traditional ruthless, relentless, iron-fisted spirit. |
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| Military coup after military coup toppled government after government before the current iron-fisted regime figured out how to hold it together. |
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| The play also centres on an iron-fisted leader intolerant of opposing political views. |
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| As he tries to maintain an iron-fisted grip on his country, he's faced with a youthful, Western-looking movement that is gaining international attention and support. |
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| No iron-fisted dictators can control these countries anymore, because their people have lost their fear. |
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| Myanmar's iron-fisted military junta is not known for such conciliatory gestures. |
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| They created institutions with the semblance of democracy to cloak the most iron-fisted control. |
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| Democracy, an end to iron-fisted government controls, and a general economic reordering radically changed the environment for media activity. |
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| She has managed to destroy past impressions of her as an iron-fisted hater of consumers and worshipper of monopoly. |
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| Apple, meanwhile, has exercised iron-fisted control over iPhone and iPad apps. |
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| Al Qaeda's global movement cannot endure without an iron-fisted traffic cop. |
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| The iron-fisted Mr Bashir has promised to abide by the outcome of the vote. |
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| Maybe an iron-fisted dictator could do that. |
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| They admit that the country was on the edge of chaos in 1990 after two particularly ineffective Presidents and had the need of an iron-fisted leader to assert itself as an independent state. |
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| Some Egyptians find this iron-fisted approach very appealing. |
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| The government is relaxing its iron-fisted control of the economy. |
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| Duch has denied assertions by prosecutors that he played a central role in the Khmer Rouge regime s iron-fisted rule. |
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