Homeowners criticized what they called high-handedness from city officials.
Well, she's used to a high level of high-handedness from Hollywood guests.
Such high-handedness from a serial offender makes it critical that the recently announced sale of Massey to an industry competitor in no way allows Massey to shed its culpability in the Upper Big Branch disaster.
Although the Americans insisted for the record that the Yemenis had cooperated eagerly from the start, and had detained and questioned about 75 Yemeni port workers and others in their own inquiry into the blast, Navy officials acknowledged that some recovery operations had been hampered by high-handedness from Yemeni security officials.
The high handedness with which the post office is undermining our communities infuriates growing numbers.
Perceived or actual American high-handedness toward Russia, from the Bush administration's abandonment of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty to its criticism of Russia's war in Chechnya, is an article of faith here.
At the same time, he did not flinch from criticizing the British officials for any acts of high-handedness or from taking up the grievances of the long-suffering peasantry in Bihar and Gujarat.
No, the problem can be more accurately described as a reaction against Recep Tayyip Erdogan's prime ministerial high-handedness that in part stems from the political fatigue — even arrogance — after 10 long years of power, and other social grievances.
By making it the organizing principle of the Moreys' lives, and by hewing so closely and with such discipline to his characters' own perception of themselves, Dee is able to chart their transformation from a golden young couple to monsters of insular high-handedness without ever changing the terms of their relationship to the world: without melodramatic moral event.
Again, such corporate high-handedness, while not new – remember, Amazon removed the book, oh the irony, 1984, from customers' Kindle ebook readers – has been relatively rare.
It's this high-handedness that echoes the run-up to Vietnam.
