One happy exception to this highhanded, you-have-no-choice-but-to- use-us attitude is Continental Airlines.

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It doesn't help that Facebook has alienated some advertisers with what they perceive as a highhanded attitude that implies that marketers have nowhere else to turn.

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In fact, during a recent TV interview about the Bolton nomination, Senator Biden seemingly hoped to neutralize any criticism of his own highhanded behavior towards his subordinates .

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Alas, this highhanded act is not without precedent.

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The People's Action Party government has long decried such press-freedom rankings, accusing its critics of being highhanded and overlooking changes in Singapore in recent years that have encouraged public debate, including the emergence of a thriving blog culture.

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Were they so highhanded, so essentially ignorant, that they didn't understand what it would mean to the American people when their IRS the revenue-collecting arm of the U.S. government is revealed as a low, ugly and bullying tool of the reigning powers?

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