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Schwartz's tenure as President was marked by an active and ironfisted rule.

Those supporting preservation lack money, expertise or approval from the ironfisted regime.

Under Kadyrov's ironfisted rule, journalists have been abducted and activists murdered.

To the north, the end of Muammar Gaddafi's ironfisted rule in Libya has had a de-stabilizing effect.

Exactly five years ago, the world was captivated by the sight of millions of Egyptians ousting a tyrant after decades of ironfisted rule.

Bob Hope inaugurated the private-eye noir parody with My Favorite Brunette (1947), playing a baby photographer who is mistaken for an ironfisted detective.

US officials and lawmakers on Thursday denounced attacks and arrests of reporters covering the unprecedented protests against Mubarak's ironfisted decades of rule.

The change is part of President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov's campaign to expunge the legacy of Niyazov's 21-year ironfisted rule during which he surrounded himself with an elaborate personality cult.

Tobruk, Libya (CNN) -- Aysha Ahmed and Attique Saleh lived in silence for more than four decades under the ironfisted rule of Moammar Gadhafi.

Just last month, parliamentary speaker Shwe Mann claimed that Senior General Than Shwe, the former dictator whose ironfisted rule lasted nearly two decades, continued to take an avid interest in national politics.

China’s growing crackdown on religious freedoms, from the imprisonment of Tibetans possessing portraits of their spiritual leader to the ironfisted control of monasteries by Chinese armed forces, had made life too difficult to stay behind, she says.

The government had turned a blind eye toward Syria's ironfisted regime in exchange for peace along the 500-mile border, lucrative trade and a safe transit corridor to deliver millions of dollars' worth of goods to the prosperous Persian Gulf.

It was hard to believe that I was standing at the former nexus of an ironfisted regime that in the 1980's was arguably closer to North Korea's brand of Communism than to the Eastern Bloc's.

The Palace of Parliament, 1 Calea 13 Septembrie, 311-3611, thought to be a catastrophic blunder from both an architecture and social fabric perspective, has somehow turned into a bragging point rather than a monument to an ironfisted dictator.

The announcement bolsters Moscow's current strategy for normalizing life in the restive republic by transferring control to ironfisted Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, a onetime rebel fighter who has switched his allegiance to the Kremlin.

First elected in 2002, Uribe spent an ironfisted four-year term re-establishing order in a country devastated by leftist rebels, paramilitary groups and drug gangs, winning the respect of much of the populace — enough so that the constitution was amended to allow him a second term.