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with heavy hand
adverb as in firmly
Example Sentences
“I think we have seen what happens when the EPA comes after private industry - they come after them with heavy hand,” said Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo.
"I think we have seen what happens when the EPA comes after private industry — they come after them with heavy hand," said Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo.
I would have every man and woman in whom the heart of childhood still lives, protest, however feebly and haltingly, yet with all the power of the heart, against machine-made education—against the instruction which crams a child with facts and starves it of dreams, which forces the free foot into heavy boots and bids it walk on narrow pavement, which crushes with heavy hand the wings of the soul, and presses the flower of imagination flat between the pages of a lexicon.
And then Marion Ray, far down the line, with one cry for Sandy, sprang forward to the gate, for Oswald Dwight, with heavy hand, had struck his little son across the face and stretched him on the turf.
It sweeps their faults with heavy hand As sweeps the sea the trampled sand, Till scarce the faintest print is scanned.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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