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.

(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.)

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.

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

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

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

For example, the camps in Dhoobley give basic infantry training, and at Sablaale the speciality is heavy weapons and guerrilla tactics.

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Indeed, throughout the former Soviet bloc, there is a disturbing trend in using outdated, conservative, and heavy handed policies to address drug abuse.

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.

Shrewd tactics.

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.

Putin s Scare Tactics

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.

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.

Such tactics are misguided.

Its tactics are the classic tactics of terror to force political change through murder and intimidation.

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.

Italians have abandoned their defensive tactics.

Mary is left handed.

But political tactics also play a role.

The participants thought of many different tactics.

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.

But scare tactics did not work this time.

Let us not be derailed by old tactics.

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.

Goldman Sachs could learn a lot from their tactics!

Here most fighters were re trained in new tactics.

The Allied Air Forces also adopted other innovative tactics.

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.

With its heavy tactics, his regime attempted to silence all dissidents. The Tunisian Internet Agency (known as the ATI from its French acronym) spent significant resources on Internet censorship, while the Interior Ministry tracked down, and violently silenced voices calling for change and political reform.

When you do this, don't attack people you attack tactics.

Several of its factions still uphold armed tactics, including terrorism.

Unfortunately, the scare tactics employed by the Business Roundtable worked.