Highhanded

Nearly a century ago, Wilson admitted America was being "highhanded" with Haiti. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tripartite alliance on Thursday condemned the "highhanded" raids by the Scorpions on the homes of axed deputy president Jacob ❋ Unknown (2005)

"highhanded" raids by the Scorpions on the homes of axed deputy president Jacob Zuma. ❋ Unknown (2005)

While U.S. officials have frequently given highhanded advice to leaders of other nations, Bernanke acknowledged that the events in the United States in the past few years have made him more understanding of their predicaments. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And we know that 10.5 considers himself "The Doctor" and is angry at the highhanded way that Ten is treating him. ❋ Rabid1st (2009)

But she doesn't seem to understand that such highhanded behavior is inevitable; when we designate someone an expert, we grant him immunity to public opinion. ❋ Daniel Hannan (2012)

I shouted after them, but they sped on the wings of the wind, great regal poppies, broken-stalked and mangled, trailing after them or cluttering their wake — the most highhanded act of piracy, I am confident, ever committed off the high seas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Summers was even more highhanded in addressing the “retention bonuses” handed to the very employees who brokered all those bad bets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Small wonder that revolt has come and highhanded methods are rife, of pretending that policies which we favor or persons that we like have the anointment of a purely imaginary majority vote. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

It was his highhanded disregard for his own colleagues, not his impolitic remarks about gender and science, that forced him out of Harvard's presidency in four years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But by 11 p.m. Tuesday night, Democratic insiders were expressing their anger, not so much at the outcome as at the ham-handed — and highhanded — way the unions had gone about it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was tempted to dispute this highhanded remark, but instead she excused herself nicely and made her way over to the cottage, where she reassured Cat, changed rapidly into a skirt and sweater, topped them with her matching tweed coat, tied a scarf over her hair, caught up handbag and gloves, and flew up to the Lodge, all within the space of the ten minutes allotted to her. ❋ Ajay Nair (2010)

One can see an incredible backlash from such a highhanded imperial policy ... but not Franken. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It says, in effect, that the industry's treatment of its customers has been so highhanded over the decades that the industry can only survive if Americans are left with the unappetizing choice of private coverage or no coverage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If anything, freer media in Pakistan will provide a useful counterpoint to highhanded or misguided government or judicial actions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But Yeltsin paid a psychic price for that coup: he had to fire his highhanded bodyguard and beloved crony, Maj. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If the highhanded incarceration of troubled people against their will for prolonged periods of time seems like a vicious antique in this new century, well, welcome to Canada. ❋ Unknown (2008)