Sentence examples for heavy hand over from inspiring English sources
The government also wields a heavy hand over domestic productions and imports, tinkering with scripts, censoring content and barring entire genres.
It would give the Christian and animist south autonomy so it could co-exist with the Islamic north, thus lifting the north's heavy hand over the southerners while avoiding the complete break that many southerners have been fighting for.
"It allows investors to focus on what positives may unfold as a result of monetary and fiscal stimuli that have been applied with a very heavy hand over the last several months," he added.
That has Early, a frequent gadfly of the Realtors' association, and others crying foul that their biggest competitor now has a heavy hand over a primary tool of their livelihood.
Emerging from this cocoon will be either a world in which artists have more autonomy, a new media oligopoly with an even heavier hand over music consumption, or, more likely, the same creeping caterpillar that spun the cocoon in the first place.
Sri Lanka's government rules with a heavy hand, especially over the Tamil minority, and several journalists and human-rights activists have been killed or attacked in recent years.
People continued to stream out of the city, fearing the all-out invasion that Iraqi leaders have been threatening if the insurgents do not agree to hand over their heavy weapons and turn over foreigners who have been fighting on their side.
But General Kimmitt said the resistance fighters still had not taken adequate steps to hand over their heavy weapons -- a condition, he said, of the truce holding.
Last week, American officials agreed not to restart a military offensive if local leaders could persuade insurgents to hand over their heavy weapons.
When the thick, curved glass of the haberdashery windows frustrated their bricks, the teenagers headed for a nearby butcher's and asked him to hand over his heavy weights.
The Army seemed to step back from these heavy handed tactics over the past weeks.
