- - Stern, rigid control
- - Inland Revenue available to provide firm control
- - Proverbially harsh control
- - Strong control
- - Symbol of strict control
- - Firm control, metaphorically
- - Rigorous control
- - Strict control
- - Strict rulership
- - Despotic control
- - What a tyrant may rule with, figuratively
- - Metaphor for tyranny
- - What a tyrant wields
- - Something to rule with
- - Bismarck ruled with one
- - Firmness
- - Symbol of sternness
- - Symbol of strictness
- - Metaphor for strictness.
- - Symbol of rigorous rule.
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