| It is true that the ham-handed attempts by the Health Ministry to regulate this sector have now reached stifling bureaucratic proportions. |
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| But a detailed analysis of the report revealed much more ham-handed politicking than historical truth-telling. |
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| I haven't seen such raw arrogance, such disdain for democratic principle, such ham-handed use of power, since J.R. and Dallas bit the dust. |
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| These civil-liberties concerns have been accentuated by the Pentagon's ham-handed efforts to explain the research effort. |
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| It is clear there are people whose jobs are threatened by this ham-handed completely cynical exercise. |
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| The ham-handed coup triggered a leadership crisis and widespread protests, as well as lingering bitterness and distrust. |
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| It's more like a clearing house for news links that are headlined with a ham-handed bias. |
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| One of the problems, though, is that when these politicians try to connect with young people, they do it in this very ham-handed way, and they end up looking silly. |
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| Today, after three years of government efforts, however ham-handed, to strengthen aviation security, some very expensive coverage is starting to be available. |
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| As a novice, I am nervous that my ham-handed attempts to help Ajan stay upright will injure her, but Mohammed shows me how and Ajan accepts my help with grace. |
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| Nor did her husband's ham-handed collaboration, in the crass style of a dad dancing at the school disco, do anything to retrieve the dignity of the situation. |
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| The ham-handed handling of the popular mass movements against the corrupt regimes in Bihar and Gujarat resulted in great public anger and dissatisfaction. |
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| Freed of external political pressures, they are far more likely to produce sensible social outcomes than any ham-handed state mandate on affirmative action. |
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| Costner's worst trait as a director, besides his ham-handed use of symbolism like precious china or fluffy white puppies, is a disregard for subtlety. |
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| Politics is wily, skilled and intelligent, not clumsy and ham-handed. |
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| The word inept, according to Roget's Thesaurus, means clumsy, artless, awkward, bungling, inadept, inefficient, unskillful, ham-handed and incapable. |
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| Rather, they expressed surprise at how ham-handed Burson has been. |
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| For all his charms, though, he can be ham-handed. |
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| The model's tough, trailing link gear system absorbs most reasonable impacts and even some unreasonable ones to smooth the most ham-handed touchdowns. |
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| It was ham-handed and poorly done, and it all could have been averted. |
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| But they are chortling about how ham-handed Burson's PR guys were. |
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| Some of the dishes arrived damaged after their ham-handed moving efforts. |
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