1. The revolutionaries were unable to resist the mailed fist of the government.

2. Poor old mailed fist.

3. They are full of the glitter and bluster of German militarism ?mailed fist and shining armour.

4. The first contact with the mailed fist bought him back to the sober realities of life.

5. Urduuk clenched his mailed fist and shot it forward, crushing into the jaw of his subordinate.

6. The government declared that it would use the mailed fist if its opponents continued to cause trouble.

7. Yet in protean China, one constant is that opposing the Communist state brings a mailed fist.

8. Obama's efforts at conciliation, our adversaries—Iran, North Korea, Hamas, among others—may spurn America's outstretched hand, or meet it with a mailed fist .

9. And despite Mr. Obama's efforts at conciliation, our adversaries—Iran, North Korea, Hamas, among others—may spurn America's outstretched hand, or meet it with a mailed fist.