hard-handed
Example Sentences
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The union had issued a statement in June saying it did not support a vaccine mandate without a testing option, asserting that such a “hard-handed” approach would further frustrate health-care workers.
From Washington Post
The late-night gathering is just the latest incident of Sanders’ supporters using hard-handed tactics to push for their candidate.
From Fox News
Youth, women, and children have taken to the streets demanding change, often facing hard-handed retaliation by the government of Al-Bashir, who came to power in a military coup in 1989.
From Science Magazine
Hard-handed enforcement of loose cigarette bans became nationally controversial after the 2014 death of Eric Garner, which followed a filmed encounter with New York police.
From US News
This is definitely the right way for the hard-handed Yorkshireman to play the spinner.
From The Guardian
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