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iron-handedness

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Source Word

iron-handedness

uncountable

Synonym of heavy-handedness: the property or state of being iron-handed.

Japanese Meaning

鉄の拳の性質、すなわち非常に厳格で、強硬な、専制的な態度や方法をとる状態。 / 重圧を伴う統治や支配の様態、いわば「鉄の統治」や「鉄拳政治」を連想させる概念。

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The mayor's iron-handedness during the protests polarized the community, earning both reluctant compliance and fierce resentment.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

抗議行動の間、町長の強権的な対応は地域社会を二分し、消極的な服従と激しい憤りの両方を招いた。

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Synonym of heavy-handedness: the property or state of being iron-handed.

In actions opening the Normandy invasion, American paratroopers suffered their first encounterwith SS iron-handedness, and later at Bayeux the 12th SS Panzer Division shot down forty British and Canadian prisoners of war.

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