heavy-handedness

All the heavy-handedness is going to do is force Firefox out of corporate IT environments where many internal websites rely on Java.

It's an axiom of political science that heavy-handed regimes don't topple when their heavy-handedness is at its peak; they topple when that heavy-handedness is relaxed.

Assuming the story as presented is accurate, it's perfectly legitimate to criticize Amazon's heavy-handedness, arrogance and opacity.

So the fact that the submission title is misleading makes the university's heavy-handedness easier to swallow?

If in fact the sentence I highlighted is true, it is very much heavy-handedness on the part of Apple.

Heavy handedness in one area correlates with heavy-handedness in the other, after all.

If anything, the love of firearms and solving problems by force is encouraging the militarisation of police and heavy-handedness with the outcasts of society.

But I do think our policies and heavy-handedness have created more terrorists than we've defeated.

I guess everyone is getting tired of the Arrogance and heavy-handedness of the NSA.

This is classic Apple heavy-handedness on the app store.

The cause&effect actually seems to be reversed - it seems that relaxation of heavy-handedness is simply an early visible symptom that the regime is finally so weak that it's forced to accept compromises that it never had to.

I think what people are frustrated with is the heavy-handedness of the approach, the lack of opt-out and the corporate-centric feel of it all.

This sentence is particularly telling: "Apple chose the facility, negotiated all the contracts to design and build it, and GT had no direct contact with the Apple subcontractors." Perhaps such a contract should never have been agreed to, but it is an example of heavy-handedness by the stronger partner in the relationship.