Sentence examples for strong-arm methods from inspiring English sources

This success was due partly to strong-arm methods.

Anti-Chávez groups have twice tried to cut short his term by strong-arm methods.

The N.Y.P.D.'s strong-arm methods — roundups, interrogation — had been unsuccessful in apprehending the bomber.

Though twice freely elected, he shut down his country's Congress in 1992 and used other strong-arm methods.

But, to the Egyptian establishment, the containment of the radicals vindicated the strong-arm methods used to deal with them.

Yet he is also remembered fondly by many as the man whose mano dura (strong-arm) methods made the streets of Mexico City safe for ordinary citizens.

Mitchell subsequently used what were described as "strong arm methods" to keep control of the Crater in the remaining months before British withdrawal.

Many corporations still rely on low-tech methods and strong-arm tactics to prevent their employees from wasting bandwidth.

Cohn introduced Trump to his McCarthy-like methods of strong-arm manipulation and to the political sleazemeister Roger Stone, another dirty trickster and unofficial adviser to Trump who just this week suggested that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin was a disloyal American who may be a spy for Saudi Arabia, a "terrorist agent".

Horthy's government in Hungary was soft on fascism, and in its early stages it employed fascist methods itself, sending strong-arm squads to raid leftist trade unions, clubs, and newspaper offices and countenancing the slaughter of hundreds of communists and socialists throughout the country.

"He is not a strong-arm guy.