"But inside the country, the government has acted in a heavy-handed way that hasn't made us any safer."

Neither mother nor daughter is made distinctive this time around, except in the most heavy-handed way.

After all, they have the most to lose if Congress continues its heavy-handed ways.

Somehow he had to break into those programs, but not in the heavy-handed way he had before.

"We didn't want to do this in a heavy-handed, didactic way."

This skillful Russian draftsman has a heavy-handed way with popular and political symbols.

He may have been right but it was a heavy-handed way to defend freedom.

The goal of the American version is identical, but we seem to be going about it in a heavy-handed way.

Stylistic points are made in a muddled and heavy-handed way here.