Whether a heavy-handed approach can succeed where others have failed may prove one of Mr Howard's biggest tests.

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The implication is, of course, that noncompliant taxpayers would continue to avoid their tax obligations without a heavy-handed approach.

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The cases will likely inflame TSA critics and frequent travelers who believe screeners take a heavy-handed approach and worsen the hassle of getting through airports with layers of rules and sometimes inconsistent policies between different cities.

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Mr Innes and most British coppers reckon such a heavy-handed approach is alien to the culture of British policing (indeed, it turned out to work nowhere so well as in New York) and may even be wrong in principle.

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Not all violence in gang neighbourhoods is gang violence, he argues, but it often gets reported that way to justify a more heavy-handed approach.

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One would expect Democrats to go for a heavy-handed, regulatory approach to governing money in politics.

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Today, we need a sensible middle ground between heavy-handed regulation and a hands-off approach to a risk that can hurt the innocent, as well as the sophisticated buyer.

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Both the editor of the BMJ and a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine have criticised this heavy-handed approach.

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Repeatedly invoking the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, Romney framed the 2012 election as a choice between his vision of limited government and the president's heavy-handed approach toward taxes and regulation.

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