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  • s  given to haughty disregard of others

  • Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they gunned down Carlos Luna, the security chief of Avianca Airlines, because he had the temerity to bust a 440-lb .
  • Dating from the turn of the century and designed to prevent high-handed legislatures from disregarding the will of the people, initiative-referendum provisions exist in nearly half .
  • Although conservative Senators angrily assailed Rockefeller for this high-handed tactic, Rocky was technically right.
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  • Independence, liberty are sought worldwide
    It was a tax issue — and a high-handed government that failed to listen to the concerns of colonial citizens — which provoked the uprising that became the American Revolution and led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence 237 years ago today.
    July 3, 2013 - The Daily Sentinel
  • Past run-ins paint image of big-headed Aaron Hernandez
    Aaron Hernandez’s repeated high-handed brushes with the law — including one just last January when he allegedly dropped his own celebrity name...
    July 3, 2013 - Boston Herald
Quotes

  • Julie Bishop in The Wimmera Mail Times
    This must be a humiliating backdown for the minister,Ms Bishop told parliament. "On Tuesday, in a highly-dismissive manner, in the high-handed, arrogant manner that is becoming a hallmark of this government, the minister accused me of...
  • Kim Yong Nam in CBS News
    Parliament leader Kim Yong Nam said desires for peace by the 118 countries in the Nonaligned Movement were "confronted with grave challenges owing to the high-handed acts and unilateralism of the superpower, which denies countries and nations the...

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