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One unambiguous photo of the performance has been circulating, but it is unclear how many people actually saw the acts; Cheng's case hinges on convincing the notoriously ironhanded Chinese judiciary that his performance, open only to a select group of invited artists, was not intended to create a disturbance and was not harmful to society.

Performance Artist Sentenced To A Year In A Labor Camp For 'Art Whore' Exhibition The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

One unambiguous photo of the performance has been circulating, but it is unclear how many people actually saw the acts; Cheng's case hinges on convincing the notoriously ironhanded Chinese judiciary that his performance, open only to a select group of invited artists, was not intended to create a disturbance and was not harmful to society.

Performance Artist Sentenced To A Year In A Labor Camp For 'Art Whore' Exhibition The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

An admirer of John F. Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher and Singapore's ironhanded Lee Kuan Yew, she describes herself as "a strong, authoritative disciplinarian whom the Filipino people will respond to" -- acknowledging a similarity to Ferdinand Marcos on that score.

Take That, Fungus Face 2008

In the process, it developed an ironhanded political tradition.

5. China, 221 B.C.E.-589 C.E 2001

The ironhanded young Yezdigerd seemed more likely than his sire to attempt the overthrow of Khoraja, so the Khorajans were looking to their defenses.

Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995

Right ceases to reign, force asserts itself, and Bismarck, ironhanded, invincible, holds sway over a scared, unresisting, one may say a

The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 Various 1888

By this change of front the gallant little corps which had so long maintained its ground, was now in some measure relieved, and no longer subject to the murderous strokes of the ironhanded Cromwellians.

The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion. By the author of "The Kentuckian in New-York." In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1834

Yet she's a surprising choice to play Bernarda, the matriarch who subjects her five daughters to an ironhanded regime.

Evening Standard - Home Henry Hitchings 2012

North Korean teams with only a handful playing outside of the ironhanded communist state.

Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE 2010

What most on the far left have failed to awake to is that the Socialism they fight for-one of so called "social justice" - is but a mere ruse for the true objective is global government and ironhanded citizen control the world over-the permanent death of freedom and the installation of a police state.

The Two Malcontents Malcontent 2010