Sohail later rebels against his father's heavy-handed manner, and reacts badly when he discovers that his father is having an affair.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation helped with the lawsuit, and Sparks ruled that the Secret Service had acted in a too heavy-handed manner.

Nevertheless, such policies must not be applied in a heavy-handed manner, as the MacDonald Report concluded, otherwise they could have the opposite effect to that which was intended.

Havvy had come to her with his heavy-handed conspiratorial manner:"The Rim wants to send in a new agent.

Mr. Goldenthal weaves a breezy pair of Latino guitars into his plush string writing, but in a heavy-handed manner.

This annoyed some, who felt that the selectors had acted in a heavy-handed manner by selecting Vanilla Ninja.

The show "chose not to duck issues that it raised and didn't approach anything in an overly simplistic, heavy-handed manner."

"Three Acts of Murder," has been directed by Frederic De Feis in a routine and, at times, heavy-handed manner.

But Washington is rightly leery of deputizing local police who might be encouraged to exert that authority in a heavy-handed manner.

Right then I was tempted to leave, even without my coat, but curiosity more than his heavy-handed manner made me follow him.