blood-and-iron

On the same day, the junta demonstrated its blood-and-iron policy.

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Congress and throughout the country, many of whom, urged on by the oil interests, in their mad delirium, cried out for a blood-and-iron policy toward Mexico.

Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him Joseph P. Tumulty

I always imagined you as one of those strong, stern, blood-and-iron men who despised girls.

The Prince and Betty 1928

While Huerta in Mexico was blatantly denouncing this benevolent policy of cooeperation and helpfulness, aid and comfort were rendered the usurper by the jingoistic criticisms of the President's enemies in the United States Congress and throughout the country, many of whom, urged on by the oil interests, in their mad delirium, cried out for a blood-and-iron policy toward Mexico.

Woodrow Wilson as I know Him Tumulty, Joseph P 1921

"Tone it down as you will, the fact remains that Darwinism regards animals as going up-stairs, in a struggle for individual ends, often on the corpses of their fellows, often by a blood-and-iron competition, often by a strange mixture of blood and cunning, in which each looks out for himself and extinction besets the hindmost."

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

She was owned by a Chinaman, chartered by an Arab, and commanded by a sort of renegade New South Wales German, very anxious to curse publicly his native country, but who, apparently on the strength of Bismarck's victorious policy, brutalised all those he was not afraid of, and wore a 'blood-and-iron' air, 'combined with a purple nose and a red moustache.

Lord Jim 1899

And so he remained to favour the mess with his somewhat blood-and-iron jokes.

A Modern Mercenary Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard 1899

Then, after taking a tablespoonful of the blood-and-iron tonic in a bottle beside Him, He bade me be quick with my questions as He was busy.

Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 Various 1898

He turned again to the blood-and-iron tonic, and was once more at the mirror when I left.

Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 Various 1898

The Field-Marshal did not forget that he was the son-in-law of the Austrian Archduke Ranieri; it is probable, if not proved, that he expected to find him pliable; but Radetsky, besides being a politician of the purest blood-and-iron type, was an old soldier with not a bad heart, and some of his sympathy is to be ascribed to a veteran's natural admiration for a daring young officer.

The Liberation of Italy Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 1891