Heavy-handed

The government's response to the protests was considered a bit heavy-handed.

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Tear gas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition have been used against protesters, in what he described as "heavy-handed suppression."

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The virus “has thrived because poverty, inequality, discrimination, the destruction of our natural environment and other human rights failures have created enormous fragilities in our societies,” Guterres said, while simultaneously providing leaders with a pretext to impose “heavy-handed security responses and repressive measures that curtail civic space and media freedom.”

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They fear the balance of power between the state and individuals has been upended and bewail governments navigating the pandemic with what they argue has been heavy-handed state coercion.

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