Meanwhile, a wealthy Chinese mestizo named Don Circilio Jaucian, on whom Ola, during his brief career as an Insurgent officer, had laid a heavy hand, had become presidente of the town.
He punished looting and disorder with a heavy hand, treated prisoners and noncombatants with the utmost kindness, and won the good-will of all Filipinos with whom he came in contact.
She was determined, however, to continue the work she had begun, and to see that at least during her life heresy should be put down with a heavy hand.
Elizabeth was determined to put down Puritanism, irreverence, and unlicensed preaching with a heavy hand.
Fighting in churches and churchyards was to be put down with a heavy hand.
In Judah the unstable Amaziah, son of Joash, was strong enough to lay a heavy hand on Edom, and flushed with triumph then resolved to readjust his relations with his overlord, the king of Israel.
It held Elam in check and laid a heavy hand on Assyria, which had been paralysed by civil war.
Although he had laid a heavy hand on Suru, the southern tribes, the Sukhi, stirred up revolts in Mesopotamia as the allies of the Babylonians.
As we have seen, he combined forces with his distinguished and powerful kinsman, and laid a heavy hand on the "Suti".
The sheriff stepped to his side and dropped a heavy hand on his shoulder.
Not yet--" he cried, and again he rested a heavy hand on hers.
She soon began to have her doubts concerning the treatment accorded the slaves, and was not long in discovering that Hicks, the overseer, ran things with a heavy hand.
He must be a man of a heavy hand, and what was most wonderful to Skshetuski, who knew the Ukraine on both sides of the Dnieper, he had heard nothing of a famous Abdank.
This is not to be mentioned in public; but he has the brain of a hetman, a heavy hand, and a mighty mind.
For instance, he gave you a great fortune, a big sword, and a heavy hand, but small wit.
At a door above his own he knocked with a heavy hand, and a woman's voice answered him from within-- "Is any one there?
But Cæsar put a heavy hand on top and said, "Gough bless me, man, but I am sorry for thee.
Spain laid a heavy hand on the Church, limiting its privileges and curtailing its revenues, being careful of earthly things and forgetful of the heavenly.
It was certainly time to assert his authority and to lay a heavy hand on these people.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heavy hand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
