They are opposing what they consider the heavy-handed control of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation, which oversees the Russian national team and wants it to train at a camp outside Moscow.

His moralism often angered his upper-class opponents (including Queen Victoria), and his heavy-handed control split the Liberal party.

A final conclusion," he said, "was that even though heavy-handed control and censorship of the campus press is widespread, no one really seems to care.

Sadat's domestic policy, called 'Infitah,' was aimed at modernizing the economy and removing Nasser's heavy-handed controls.

Orson Swindle, executive director of United We Stand, America, denied that there is an heavy-handed control of state chapters by the Dallas headquarters.

The failure of Iraq's offensive at the outset of the Iran-Iraq war has been attributed to Mr. Hussein's heavy-handed and centralized control of military decision-making.

But demonstrators complained that in the last year in Serbia, Mr. Milosevic had wielded heavy-handed control over the press and television.

The Germans did not exert heavy-handed control over Albania's administration.

This is a purely personal viewpoint, which would perhaps make it possible to avoid a number of controls, which are, so to speak, unfortunate or heavy-handed.

However, he opposed Joseph Stalin's heavy-handed control, particularly in the matter of cotton monoculture.