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The PCAPA was formed within days of that landmine attack, ostensibly to protest against the police's heavy-handed response to it.

Russia's heavy-handed energy diplomacy is often counterproductive.

Yahoo! seems to have come up with the ultimate response to Microsoft's heavy-handed attempts to purchase the internet portal.

As it was, Mr Abe's hatchet-men had to be restrained from the same heavy-handed methods that prevented a rate rise last time.

Prospects of a coup in the midst of these tensions are slim, but heavy-handed political interference from the Turkish military is likely.

It might be moved to legislate if it thinks the EPA is being too heavy-handed.

General McChrystal noted as much in January, when he issued a new directive to avoid needless casualties and heavy-handed intrusions.

Some of the curator's choices seem a bit odd and the written descriptions, which add little, are occasionally heavy-handed .

The beauty with that sort of system is that it doesn't impose heavy-handed rules on people who don't need them.

Forcing people to do something is heavy-handed, but sometimes it's necessary to jolt people out of their collective or individual rut.

But the crackdown in Bahrain appeared to be the most heavy-handed seen on Thursday.

In a market, you need measures to protect consumers, but not in such a heavy-handed way as to discourage investment.

But the elections have been hastily organized, in an atmosphere of increasingly heavy-handed suppression by the ruling military.

Equally welcome is the meeting's recognition that heavy-handed policing is not the solution.

Don't be excessively heavy handed in negotiations at the expense of a more meaningful long term relationship.

Eight hundred armed men are now being directly funded by the United States in Helmand, but they've faced criticism for being heavy-handed.

Power has not been devolved to the council, and the security forces and their local allies behave with heavy-handed unaccountability.

But they made no progress, and unrest spread to the streets, where it was met by a heavy-handed government response.

The prime minister of the former communist country cautioned against too heavy-handed a state intervention.

After the charge against the sit-down protest at students, there were complaints that officers had been heavy handed.

Fantastic art direction, great characters and plot, love the rain motif. Some of the symbolism is a little heavy-handed, but so what.

Heavy-handed censorship also risks alienating Weibo's urban educated user base, who value precisely the free flow of ideas it allows.

"It's very heavy-handed of the OMB to come in and regulate peer review, " Waxman charges.

He also frets that heavy-handed regulation may stop America from taking advantage of its vast reserves of shale gas.

And the answer is not heavy-handed regulations that crush the entrepreneurial spirit and risk - taking of American capitalism.

Heavy-handed attempts to extract more from consumers or internet services would put some of those gains at risk.

Rivals complained about its heavy-handed tactics. pc makers griped that it was hogging the industry's profits.

Yet even if the trend is confirmed, it scarcely vindicates the heavy-handed methods used to engineer it.

But heavy-handed regulators and compliance officers are forever reacting to the last disaster.

Three days earlier, riot police had broken up the first pockets of protest. But their heavy-handed tactics backfired.

Heavy-handed enforcement is unlikely, as the desire for investment will outweigh the temptation to apply the new law aggressively.

In a world where goodwill is scarce , heavy- handed dialogues engender resentments that spill over into other spheres .

The order was scaled back after being criticized as a heavy-handed attempt by the government to control its citizens' Internet use.

When you find yourself getting heavy-handed with the saltshaker, simply drop a few apple (or potato) wedges in your pot.

The heavy-handed official repression that followed resulted in hundreds of arrests and allegations of widespread police violence.

Well, my youngest son is feeling ill, and kept me up half the night. That's why my work is a bit heavy-handed and clumsy this morning.

His reputation may even have been enhanced among opponents of Washington's heavy-handed foreign policy.

This is helpful for the times when you want to do some heavy-handed work on the system without stomping on someone's important document.

Heavy-handed efforts in vernacular services also risk crowding out promising locals, by pinching good journalists.

The heavy-handed tactics and coercion by officials have turned one-time champions against the policy.

No regulatory system can prevent every collapse or detect every fraud, however intricate, adaptable or heavy-handed.

While that practice has diminished (though not disappeared), other heavy-handed tactics remain in use in the hinterland.

They do not like working for heavy-handed bosses.

But critics say the record companies are risking a backlash as music fans take offense at the heavy-handed treatment.

Admitting the coastguard was heavy-handed, it promised to ensure that legal claims for compensation ran smoothly.

Signs have also emerged that the carmaker has become irritated by Berlin's heavy-handed negotiating tactics in recent weeks.

First, China is reluctant to get heavy-handed with workers in big-brand firms that attract global media attention.

The start of the riots is attributed to heavy-handed policing and lack of information.

The action is well orchestrated, but the storytelling can be heavy-handed.

In fact, when you put so many heavy-handed rules in a game, you're going to encourage reverse forms of griefing.

China's heavy-handed diplomacy and expressions of special rights in the South China Sea have left it isolated in the region.

The strangest thing about the Kremlin's heavy-handed behaviour is that it is to a great extent unnecessary.

More heavy-handed financial regulatory reform is likely to emerge from the new U. S. Congress in 2009, Eichengreen said.

The commission has proposed heavy-handed regulation of hedge funds and private-equity firms.

The whole scene is "pervaded by this very heavy-handed imagery, " added Beckman.

However, concern about the election and the heavy-handed response to the ensuing protests have damped those hopes.

All the same, the state seems too keen to use heavy-handed regulation.

It's rather ugly -- and heavy handed, but works well at very small sizes on the monitor, as seen at right.

Control remains heavy handed on topics deemed "sensitive. "

The second reason is that Ontario has traditionally been heavy-handed with its regulations on drinking.

He believes it's a mistake for employers to become too heavy handed about personal Internet use.

Uighur activists say they have legitimate grievances against what they say is heavy-handed Chinese rule.

Japan is getting heavy-handed in its crackdown on smoking.

Often it is the authorities that are heavy handed and start violence, which is self-defeating and only encourages retaliation.

incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies; a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition.

The heavy-handed rule of Vladimir Meciar, which ended in 1998, nearly cost the country its chance of EU and NATO membership.

The justice ministry seems heavy-handed and too fond of publicity.

The Fund was reviled by many in Asia and Latin America for heavy-handed interventions in the past.

Furthermore, there are fears that the CFPB, if heavy-handed, could make credit harder to come by.

In Thailand, generals have a long tradition of coups and heavy-handed intervention in matters of state.

Japan's coast guard has appeared heavy-handed in the past.

Even the government's heavy-handed effort to control the story has become the object of scorn among younger, savvier Chinese.

The state is being so heavy-handed because it fears a mass walkout.

Yet the Chinese have also been heavy-handed about any hint of disruption or loss of face.

Big iron ore producers have bristled at what they regard as heavy-handed tactics in last year's price negotiations.

he told a heavy - handed joke about bill ' s baldness that embarrassed everyone

The book sparked a fierce debate about heavy-handed parenting style,

At times, the strategy used by public-health campaigners may seem heavy-handed;