rule with a rod of iron

"He ruled with a rod of iron, and I think that was what was needed."

In the first place, I may tell you that Moriarty rules with a rod of iron over his people.

She ruled with a rod of iron.

I am quite aware that some sailors are most rebelliously disposed, and required to be ruled with a rod of iron.

There was a Head Butler called Muniswami, who ruled with a rod of iron.

Now shall ye be ruled with a rod of iron, that ye may learn what freedom is, and love it and seek it.

Mamchand rules with a rod of iron and forbids any lower caste person falling in love with an upper caste one.

Official portraits of Banda, who ruled with a rod of iron for three decades, adorned all government offices and many private offices and homes, but will have to be removed from Monday, a civil servant said.

About the year 1780 there lived in Bawn House a certain Captain Barnes, agent over several estates in the neighbourhood of Moydow, and famed among the people as an uncompromising exterminator of the tenants, whom he ruled with a rod of iron.