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This is dysfunctional response to high-handed and out-of-touch autocracies is classic.
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If a candidate or reporter does it today, there's a good chance they'll be trolled and ridiculed for high-handed pretension.
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It may have been such high-handed behaviour which gave rise to the numerous complaints which were made in 1411-2.
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That doesn't mean existing tenants of all types have to put up with some of the apparently dictatorial, high-handed treatment they claim they suffer.
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These deletions from the report reflect the authority's high-handed approach to the public's right to know.
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Forceful, assertive, resolute, forensic, yes -- but just a tad less high-handed.
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This vote was pushed through with a narrow margin and followed previous unsuccessful votes which were protested by students because of the high-handed manner in which they were held.
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At a loss to escape from this high-handed treatment, she resorted to a device no less prudent than daring.
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Governors who were too high-handed or injudicious in the exercise of their office occasionally fell foul of the local political institutions.
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In a later press conference, the opposition lawmakers condemned the arrest as high-handed.
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