21. It's an iron rule ." 22. A philosopher might say it covers a much greater distance-- from communism to capitalism, from iron rule to freedom. 23. Describing the Taliban's iron rule with poetic simplicity, he said : " These people were against life itself ." 24. Earlier Wednesday, a Nigerian newspaper reported that the government plans to annul legislative elections held under Abacha's iron rule . 25. The president has warned that the alternative to his iron rule would be war, as in neighboring Tajikistan and Afghanistan. 26. :It's certainly not a cast iron RULE . There are undoubtedly people who can't be reached in so few steps. 27. In May, Kabila ousted Mobutu, who plundered his country's wealth during decades of iron rule , after a bloody six-month war. 28. Without Israel as an enemy, there could be a greater emphasis on internal politics and less tolerance for Assad's iron rule . 29. He naturally modified the slogan, replacing Orthodoxy with Marxism and autocracy with the leader's iron rule . ( Nationality remained .) 30. If it were known as a iron rule that such experiments would discourage creative activity then they would probably be stopped.