Similar words: strong arm, louis armstrong, strong, strongly, stronger, strongbox, stronghold, strongman. Meaning: v. 1. handle roughly 2. be bossy towards 3. use physical force against. adj. impelled by physical force especially against resistance.
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1. They used strong-arm tactics.
2. Police resorted to strong-arm tactics to break up the protest outside Cape Town's castle.
3. Those men were handpicked strong-arm thugs, hired for the occasion, known for their viciousness.
4. In the first months of Whitelaw rule, strong-arm cliques began to assert themselves in Belfast.
5. Also rumoured they used strong-arm tactics during one of Buckmaster's many takeover bids to build up his conglomerate.
6. In this game strong-arm tactics were deployed by both sides to kill five ends and force replays.
7. to use strong-arm tactics against your political opponents.
8. The paper is openly critical of the strong-arm president.
9. He thinks he needs me to persuade or strong-arm Samish into the Separatist camp.
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10. Facing their reprisals, Bouebdelli publicly criticized the regime's strong-arm tactics -- only to have a court seize, on spurious grounds, a private university he had built and operated.
11. Strong-arm tactics that the prime minister was unable to resist.
12. The money has been recovered without resorting to verbal abuse or strong-arm tactics.
13. He said all muscles need to be used gently before tackling the strong-arm work.
14. Others were furious at what they said were government strong-arm tactics over the vote.
15. It had been, as record retailer Bruce Webb suggested, a business of late payments and strong-arm collections.
16. The prefect at the time, Dominique Vian, could see the advantages of Bena's strong-arm tactics.
17. A case's merit should not have to depend on strong-arm tactics.
18. Strachan believes they can do it - provided dangerman Lee Chapman gets proper protection against Stuttgart's strong-arm tactics.
19. There is a further danger that, as the climate crisis deepens, governments may strong-arm farmers into planting prescribed biotech seeds with traits deemed essential for adaptation.
20. An internal EU memorandum sheds light on the way such strong-arm diplomacy works.
21. From a more macro standpoint, if China is indeed bogarting its supply of rare earths to strong-arm Japan into making political concessions, it could be setting a dangerous precedent.
22. In the United States, it suffered rulings against it and in 2001 reached a settlement that prohibited Microsoft from certain strong-arm tactics.
23. He made it sound not like war but a humanitarian mission with some strong-arm detective work thrown in.
24. Joining this outer circle was the occasional member of the business elite who had discovered that it wasn't only dissidents who could fall victim to the regime's strong-arm tactics.
25. Bella, however, is not at all happy about this, and she convinces a pair of strong-arm men to teach him a lesson.
26. Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide (TV series)do it with verbal cunning, not strong-arm bullying.
27. They didn't waste resources trying to dominate the news cycle, game the system, strong-arm the party, or out-triangulate competitors' positions.
28. The Neimoidians had long been careful to skirt contention by purchasing victories in the Senate. Strong-arm tactics were alien to them.
29. I don't disagree: There's no doubt that Apple is using its dominant position in digital distribution to strong-arm publishers.
30. The dW Java team loves Sing, and I'm routinely reminded by them that I should strong-arm him into writing again.
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