The heavy handed approach adopted by the regime is causing friction among even its loyalists.

While the government has managed to restore order, its heavy handed, discriminatory approach has weakened prospects for peace.

But it has also implemented heavy handed police and military controls.

Writers, journalists, and artists could no longer stand the heavy handed censorship and supervision.

But heavy handed police repression launched a massive civic movement that has spread to the entire country.

The government s heavy handed behavior reinvigorated the homegrown Kifaya (Enough) movement, which has demanded an end to the Mubarak regime.

That way, the world s poor could at least avoid the heavy handed conditionality imposed by the IMF and World Bank.

Heavy handed diplomatic pressure such as threats to exclude Russia from the G8 must be a weapon of last resort.

It is noted that only the ex FAPC handed in significant stockpiles of heavy weapons, and it is likely that heavy weaponry from other sources has been transferred to residual active forces.

The civilian side of nation building, it is reckoned, will be made easier by the absence of a heavy handed foreign military presence.

Indeed, throughout the former Soviet bloc, there is a disturbing trend in using outdated, conservative, and heavy handed policies to address drug abuse.

To varying degrees, these governments have undermined their democratic credentials by failing to protect civil and human rights and employing heavy handed tactics against their opponents.

The army has also paid a heavy price for Musharraf s approach to the war on terror.

It interfered with the details of governance in Lebanon in a heavy handed and inflexible manner that was the primary reason for the political polarization that ensued.

If repeated, this pattern may erode confidence in financial markets and regulators, which could well lead to heavy handed regulation, the expansion of the state, and retrenchment from globalization.

North Korea, which never had a transition and maintains heavy handed central planning, is an economic basket case. And soft socialism combined with subsidized national champions is decaying in France.

(Russia has also tried heavy handed tactics on Moldova by threatening to ban the country s wine exports to Russia and to recognize the independence of the breakaway territory of Transnistria.)

This is best illustrated by Turkey, where Obama has ignored Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s heavy handed efforts to annul free speech and turn himself into a twenty first century Sultan.

As a country that had shown its complete disregard for freedom of expression through its heavy handed approach to anti regime demonstrators, the United States lacked the moral authority to speak about respect for human rights, let alone to masquerade as a torch bearer on the issue and point the finger at other countries.

Once again, governments are using subsidies, mandates, regulation, and capital investment to pick industrial winners and losers, rather than using a broad, even handed approach.

Russia s heavy handed pressure on Georgia and its support of secessionist movements in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two unrecognized republics within Georgia, inflames passions and risks destabilizing the already tense Northern Caucasus.

I'm left handed.

Mary is left handed.

OIOS believes that the development of an effective subregional office communication strategy is hampered by the top heavy approach to communication by ECA headquarters.

Fadil handed Dania a gun.

In the city of Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya, protesters gathered in front of police headquarters and chanted slogans against the corrupt rulers of the country. The response of the authorities was reportedly heavy handed.

All stick and little carrot has failed to quell Chechen nationalism, and President Vladimir Putin s similarly heavy handed attempts to control Russia s so called near abroad as in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution have proven no more successful.

Layla was handed three life sentences.

Layla was handed three life sentences.

Sometimes her efforts were heavy handed, as when she embraced AIDS victims physically as a metaphor for social inclusion sometimes they backfired, as when her shared intimacies with servants provided fodder for a flood of posthumous tell all books.

It was to foil this agreement that the military branch of Hamas, run from Damascus, engaged in the provocation that brought a heavy handed response from Israel which in turn incited Hezbollah to further provocation, opening a second front.

Alternatively, leaders can listen to their critics and adopt a balanced, two handed approach that applies both supply side reforms and supportive demand side measures to the challenge of ending Europe s malaise.

I'd seen it every day, but this time I saw it differently a new approach to sculpture, a way to make volumetric form without heavy solid materials.

Many other countries in the world deal with tropical diseases. Most recently and famously, Brazil is hosting the Olympics amid a Zika epidemic. But these countries are rarely treated in this heavy handed manner, perhaps because they are autonomous states.

Krenz hesitated, then handed him a press release.

Five judgements on the merits were handed down.

Heavy weapons cantonment registers a total of 10,888 heavy weapons cantoned so far.

Heavy security presence

Now, some people who think they're right handed are genetically left handed. OK. I'm just saying that, if you think, oh, I don't carry a left handed gene so therefore my, you know, children won't be at risk of schizophrenia. You might. OK?

So we've handed out bracelets. Small is the new big.

Tulkarem was handed over on 21 March after similar delays.

(b) 20 judgements involving 26 accused have been handed down

like a heavy load.

How heavy you are!

At the same time, in the face of an alarming increase in the number of terrorist attacks, Manmohan Singh s government has also indulged in a heavy handed response to suspected Islamist terrorists, who are hauled off on flimsy evidence and killed before they can be convicted of any crime.