The iron-fisted military rule forced much of the artistic community out of the city.

He took pleasure in these killings because they allowed him to maintain his iron-fisted rule.

The Mets, a truly terrible club, arrived tonight to submit to Atlanta's iron-fisted rule.

He was reported to be depressed and shocked at his ouster after 32 years of iron-fisted rule.

The result was 12 more years of the Iraqi dictator's iron-fisted rule, which ended up leading to war anyway.

Those were goals that would require a generation of iron-fisted rule, both skeptical supporters and opponents said.

His iron-fisted rule scared people in the country.

Over the past three decades we chose to ignore President Suharto's iron-fisted rule for political and economic expediency.

Within two days some seven thousand Cubans jammed the embassy, attempting to escape communism's iron-fisted rule.

The end of his iron-fisted rule did not bring political stability.