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I just wanted to make her look hardfisted somewhere, anywhere.
How to Rig an Election Allen Raymond with Ian Spiegelman 2008
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I just wanted to make her look hardfisted somewhere, anywhere.
How to Rig an Election Allen Raymond with Ian Spiegelman 2008
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I just wanted to make her look hardfisted somewhere, anywhere.
How to Rig an Election Allen Raymond with Ian Spiegelman 2008
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The question is whether Moscow's hardfisted policies are keeping that threat in check -- or fanning the resentments that could inflame it.
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They also proscribed the kulak, the able, hardheaded, hardfisted farmer who was richer than his neighbors and liked to see them poorer than himself.
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Many of them, therefore, indulge in it on credit and soon find themselves deprived of what little property they had to satisfy their hardfisted employers.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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He weighed the hardfisted policies of his loyal Bedouin guard against his hope to ingratiate himself with his Palestinian subjects.
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