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  • High-handed ministers of the Crown, acting more like princelings than representatives, have been actively involved in exiling Canadian citizens and more recently defaming and scapegoating an upstanding public employee and the respected charitable organization KAIROS-Canada.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • High-handed ministers of the Crown, acting more like princelings than representatives, have been actively involved in exiling Canadian citizens and more recently defaming and scapegoating an upstanding public employee and the respected charitable organization KAIROS-Canada.

    Going 'rogue 2009

  • Nonetheless, Cabinet's High-handed Action and for once this is not rhetoric, but exactly true will ensure that an injustice is continued, and pressure on marriages at risk increased.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Zoe Brain 2006

  • Nonetheless, Cabinet's High-handed Action and for once this is not rhetoric, but exactly true will ensure that an injustice is continued, and pressure on marriages at risk increased.

    Legal Impedimenta Zoe Brain 2006

  • "High-handed, insufferable, beastly Scots, " Ian said, in such a perfect imitation of her mother's English accent that she burst out laughing, despite her annoyance.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • This paper was the "High-handed Outrage at Utica."

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • High-handed, his course, undeniably, but too much was at stake for any narrow consideration to hold back Sachs: the happiness of Eva, -- of, as he says, at the conclusion of his announcement, "the amiable stainless one, who must never be made to regret that Nuremberg holds in such honour art and its professors!"

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • "Outrages" and "High-handed Lawlessness!" and factory owners by the canals raised up their voices in bitterness over flooded fire-rooms; and property owners of perishable cellar goods howled about damage suits; and the ordinary citizen took to bailing out the hollow places of his domain.

    Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Stewart Edward White 1909

  • This paper was the “High-handed Outrage at Utica.”

    The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907

  • Ministers had assembled Lincoln first entertained them by reading the short chapter of Artemus Ward entitled "High-handed Outrage at Utica."

    Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

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