Nationalist upheaval consumed Yugoslavia after the death of Tito, the ironhanded unifier.
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Ironhanded
Synonyms for "ironhanded" (32 found)
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He was an “ironhanded father-figure” (C. Reid, 1998, p. 216). This ironhanded aspect sometimes went too far, like when he forced Erich Lehmann to resign his editorship of Annals of Mathematical Statistics.
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In this traditional context, it's easy to assume that anything short of an ironhanded, authoritarian attitude toward discipline is flat-out permissive, although this common belief is not remotely true.
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