Václav's heavy-handed policies soon caused him to lose whatever support he had earlier in his reign; he died in 1305.

Even more powerful than the heavy-handed policies of the 1940s, the major force for linguistic integration today is television.

Aboriginal resistance to the heavy-handed Japanese policies of acculturation and pacification lasted up until the early 1930s.

Catholics were heavily repressed by the French, and the French instituted heavy-handed policies that completely paralyzed the economy.

He has steadily distanced himself from Mr Zhivkov's heavy-handed policies and introduced more tolerance in Bulgaria.

However, a heavy-handed and acquisitive French foreign policy soon provoked Austria and Russia, and led to the formation of the Second Coalition.

Meanwhile, a heavy-handed policy of assimilation began to be imposed onto the Kurdish minority in Turkey, who comprise some 20-25% of the total population.

A heavy-handed policy of Russification tended to push even relatively mild cultural movements, such as that in the Ukraine, in the direction of political protest.

Assad has embarked on a program of economic liberalization and privatization to redress the heavy-handed statist policies that crippled his country's Soviet-bloc counterparts.

He continued, "I don't consider that heavy-handed industrial policy."