There would be no barbed wire, heavy-handedness or ostentatious displays of weaponry in a country still haunted by such images.
Thus, on Thursday, Pinchuk compared his situation with Khodorkovsky's and exhorted Kiev to eschew Russia's heavy-handedness in settling the conflict.
By conceding, Mr Saakashvili has admirably secured his reformist legacy, demolishing claims that his rule was Putinesque in its heavy-handedness.
The sense of injustice, at the trial verdicts and at the perceived heavy-handedness of the police in Port Said, remains acute.
The government might get away with heavy-handedness if the economy were booming.
Besides accusations of heavy-handedness and abuse of preventive detention, critics accuse Mr Bruguiere and his colleagues of not giving defendants a fair chance.
Although the government often invokes fears of an Islamist insurgency to justify its heavy-handedness, such a secular, stable country seems an unlikely breeding-ground for religious radicals.
While the collective has no single unifying goal, those associated with Anomymous often work against what they consider censorship, hypocrisy and heavy-handedness by governments around the world.
"Military and police heavy-handedness in the north is core to the story of Boko Haram's emergence, " said Michael Woldemariam, a professor of African security studies at Boston University.
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But the rewards for those who survived justified Gerstner's heavy-handedness.
This, however, did nothing to change the perception of heavy-handedness.
SLORC's heavy-handedness in dealing with Suu Kyi's democracy campaign may be embarrassing, but everyone in ASEAN agrees that talk, not sanctions, is the only way to bring about change.
All this may work for a bit, but thrifty German consumers will not be kept away from bargain telephony for ever, and heavy-handedness stokes public hostility to the company.
And though Hamas is indeed losing popularity in Gaza, thanks partly to its own heavy-handedness against Fatah, nobody has yet thought up a plausible method for removing it from power.
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Despite the usual complaints about government heavy-handedness from Republicans and business lobbyists, the House bill contains none of the expected attempts to impose detailed limits on the size or structure of pay that would merit such alarm.
It is believed that some of the civilians were gunmen who were killed while defending Mr Coke, but correspondents say the high casualty figure does raise questions about the heavy-handedness of the operation, which has involved thousands of security officials.
This has not been the first instance of government heavy-handedness--to wit, government's determination to punish innocent and guilty alike in the savings and loan debacle, the multibillion-dollar robbery of Texaco and the astronomically large damage awards meted out against some companies, such as McDonald's, when a customer successfully sued the fast-fooder for selling hot coffee that she spilled on her lap.
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