heavy hand

“And you will be welcome,” said Abu Hassar, grinning his wide ear-to-ear grin and resting his heavy hand on my shoulder.

At which point, any goodwill they'd accumuluated would evaporate, and the heavy hand of the law would wade in.

So, he rather clearly favored the heavy hand of the government here.

But the heavy hand of humorless government has a way of taking a good idea, ruining it, and then spinning the result.

But all other things are never equal in Iraq, and politics always lays a heavy hand on the scales.

As for my share, retribution has held its heavy hand upon me; it is upon me still, Heaven knows.

And in Gazarim, Andronicus and Menelaus, who bore a more heavy hand upon the citizens than the rest.

Treachery was at work, and the blow we least feared fell with a heavy hand at last, and dispersed us.

One was much bent by time's heavy hand; the other enjoyed the full vigour of early manhood.

Almost instinctively he let his heavy hand fall into the one which the Nabob was holding out to him.