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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Writers who use ‘heavy handled’ appear to assume that a crude approach to problems involves the use of a massive blunt object. About 200 ghits:
EFF Battles Heavy-Handled Tactics in Copyright Lawsuit.
www.commondreams.org/news2006/0809-04.htm
In their anxiety to offload their decaying housing stock, councils have been accused of using heavy-handled tactics to get a yes vote.
www.bl.uk/welfarereform/issue6/sochouk.html
... not offering an alternative to the “heavy handled cop behaviour” – just more of the same.
www.indymedia.ie/article/3261?save_pref … anguage=ga
...heavy-handled methods that will most likely lead to a long term legacy.
www.outside-org.co.uk/images/The_Outsid … on_1.2.pdf
For this part, our propagation method is different from the Meiri’s propagation technique … This process is general, but very heavy handled.
doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TIME.1996.555691
There is a distinction where a heavy handled approach is warranted, such as in wrongdoing cases.
www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/enforc … mmary.html
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