The chengguan are a secondary security force employed to take pressure off the police by enforcing regulations, but are widely feared for their heavy-handedness.

作为二级保安力量，城管被雇用来分担警察执法压力，但他们粗劣的手段引发广泛担忧。

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There would be no barbed wire, heavy-handedness or ostentatious displays of weaponry in a country still haunted by such images.

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Thus, on Thursday, Pinchuk compared his situation with Khodorkovsky's and exhorted Kiev to eschew Russia's heavy-handedness in settling the conflict.

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By conceding, Mr Saakashvili has admirably secured his reformist legacy, demolishing claims that his rule was Putinesque in its heavy-handedness.

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