For them to summarily slam the door in his face, and refusing even to study it, that would be a bit high handed.
And he has brought with him staffers from his congressional office whose high-handed style has rankled at the CIA. There have been a handful of high-level resignations.
Mrs Giuliani's expensive ways and high-handed habits are providing grist for her husband's enemies.
Even those who believe Mr Chirac's high-handed bullying was counterproductive tend to think Mr Trichet remains the best candidate on merit.
Few dispute Zimbabwe's need for land reform, but critics charge the government with going about it in a haphazard, high-handed way.
His job was in jeopardy not because of his hardline views but because his high-handed manner has alienated many state legislators.
Mr Miliband said Mr Gove was "high-handed, incompetent and unfair" and urged Mr Cameron to perform a u-turn on the "daft" decision.
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The EU's top-down, high-handed agenda is already stirring doubts.
Mr Thaksin was a high-handed leader convicted of corruption.
Parents complained of a lack of choice and of high-handed treatment from the school board: one aggrieved father who grew up in bureaucracy-racked India said the board's behaviour reminded him of home.
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Be careful of high-handed comparisons.
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Both the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations took high-handed actions that pre-cipitated and then deepened and prolonged the economic crisis that was battering both the U.S. and the rest of the world and made possible the rise of Nazism and the advent of World War II.
If you're a Labour MP the ill-tempered debate was about a 'partisan', 'ill-conceived', 'ill-judged', 'ham-fisted', 'high-handed', 'arrogant' - and I could go on - attempt to impose new electoral arrangements on the Assembly with little regard to what its members, or the people of Wales want, arrangements, at that, that'll favour the Tories in future elections.
Buffalo's power play ranks 29th, and has allowed an NHL-high six short-handed goals.
Ponting, who had already edged between the slips and gully, prodded defensively at Anderson and Paul Collingwood pulled off a superb one-handed catch high to his right at third slip.
High-visibility jackets were handed out to homeless people in the area following the first two accidents, so they could be seen more clearly by motorists.
But today people won't accept a service handed down from on high.
And Blair's idea of choice is still one handed down from on high by central government through bureaucratic target-driven initiatives like 'Choose and Book'.
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Spirits are high, and bonuses have been handed out (for those lucky enough to see them) and deadlines are light through the end of the quarter.
But for those who want the Commons to control its own business, and not have it handed down from on high, the key will be that voteable motion.
It wants to dazzle and amaze with flying trapeze artists, high-wire walkers and one-handed handstands.
The 29-year-old says he is proud to have been handed the opportunity and has high hopes for next season's Premiership campaign.
The Group achieved high levels of deliveries in 2008: Airbus handed over 483 aircraft to its customers -- more than ever before.
The Amercian men then built on their momentum when they took the high bar, where a spectacular one-handed swinging rotation by Justin Spring had American fans chanting.
Tarek el Aissami, the interior minister, says that since the DEA left Venezuela has arrested and handed over to other countries 69 high-level traffickers, many to the United States.
The verdict handed Vance a defeat in the most high-profile prosecution of his 17 months in office.
At the Ruijin Hospital in the city's tree-lined, former French Concession area, patients with high fevers and other flu-like symptoms are handed disposable thermometers and masks and ushered in through separate entrances.
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