| Their grievances were oppressive and unfair taxation, heavy-handedness of the authorities, and lack of political representation. |
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| The government is acting in line with its age-old propensity for heavy-handedness. |
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| Those present at protests on both the Friday and Saturday claim that police heavy-handedness in Toronto was taken to a whole new level. |
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| I feel it was much lighter on the heavy-handedness and sensationalism that characterizes much of his other work, and thank God for that. |
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| Meanwhile, here in London, events passed off peacefully amidst accusations of police heavy-handedness. |
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| The first reaction was to applaud the rioting children and to complain of police heavy-handedness. |
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| With such heavy-handedness behind the camera, I'm not sure how talented actors could emerge with any autonomy or achieve any genuine soul-bearing. |
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| They manage this despite some serious heavy-handedness in the script. |
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| These tactics not only failed to engage the guerrillas, who easily evaded the large jungle sweeps, but their heavy-handedness alienated the local population. |
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| Just occasional heavy-handedness toward everyone — protestors, bystanders, press. |
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| If he decides they are not, he can invoke using his heavy-handedness to apply the federal law in the province. |
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| This heavy-handedness is about the show of brutal military force, not about getting back a captured soldier. |
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| It is fun to fly, thermals like a dream and forgives any heavy-handedness that you may inadvertently throw at it. |
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| Betts says this is just another example of the heavy-handedness of this government. |
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| Additionally, Greek attempts at restoration during the twentieth century have been equally criticised for their insensitivity and heavy-handedness. |
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| Need to curb refactoring and curb the heavy-handedness of over-bearing wiki police. |
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| Still, they avoid heavy-handedness and are mostly quite charming. |
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| Ideally, it would broach such sentiment cleverly, without resorting to dime-store spirituality or heavy-handedness. |
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| The heavy-handedness of local officials has been partly to blame for increases in rural instability that in recent years have seen pitched battles between police and farmers. |
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| He invades personal space, standing mere inches away from his staff while playing the innuendo card with a heavy-handedness that makes his point painfully obvious. |
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| Uighurs blame government heavy-handedness. |
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| Yet this collective nostalgia engenders heavy-handedness. |
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| But Chakrabarti's script avoids heavy-handedness. |
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| Concern about police heavy-handedness is spreading. |
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| This heavy-handedness is especially counterproductive. |
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| It felt clear, contemporary and free from pantomimic heavy-handedness. |
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| I think one cannot exaggerate the unacceptability of the heavy-handedness and the disrespectful way in which the chair of this committee has dealt with his responsibilities. |
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| There are a lot of things.... So I think when we're coming along here and asking your industry...what I would suggest is new approaches, new challenges, not the old traditional heavy-handedness. |
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| It was associated with government heavy-handedness and viewed with disdain. |
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| Yet, in the end, it becomes haunted by the unwelcome presence of heavy-handedness, making it seem more like a busy domestic melodrama than a truly unnerving chiller. |
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| After an initial bout of heavy-handedness I also realised you only needed a few small, strategically placed dots to get good results. |
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| Hassan Khalil urged heavy-handedness in imposing security in order to preserve people's lives. |
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| Police were criticised for the heavy-handedness of their response to the initial protests. |
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| But such a practice is a form of corporate heavy-handedness that purists hope doesn't catch on. |
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| His week-long attempt to show us how tolerant and peaceful Syrian society was had been scuppered by a single act of heavy-handedness. |
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| The narrative takes us from one crisis to another and nearly overwhelms the reader with a hefty dosage of political heavy-handedness and ecclesiastical chicanery. |
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| However, it would have been better served to do this in years past rather than foster the image of heavy-handedness that flows from its hardball business practices. |
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| With only a couple of weeks under their belt, members of the House have already held hearings on a couple of bills that stand out in their governmental heavy-handedness. |
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| And his core constituency will certainly stay put, braving unbreakably the vagaries of the weather and any heavy-handedness of the state administrative machinery. |
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