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What is heavy-handedness?

What is heavy-handedness? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The property of being heavy-handed.
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If he decides they are not, he can invoke using his heavy-handedness to apply the federal law in the province.
This heavy-handedness is about the show of brutal military force, not about getting back a captured soldier.
These tactics not only failed to engage the guerrillas, who easily evaded the large jungle sweeps, but their heavy-handedness alienated the local population.
I feel it was much lighter on the heavy-handedness and sensationalism that characterizes much of his other work, and thank God for that.
Their grievances were oppressive and unfair taxation, heavy-handedness of the authorities, and lack of political representation.
Those present at protests on both the Friday and Saturday claim that police heavy-handedness in Toronto was taken to a whole new level.

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