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The report criticizes the ham-fisted way in which complaints were dealt with.
As the day unwound, we discovered more of the unprincipled nature of what all the ham-fisted charade was about.
Instead, my constituents complain, with a frequency which is becoming extraordinary, about what they call the ham-fisted approach of officials.
Is he not playing with fire in such a ham-fisted way that he will burn his fingers unless he does something different pretty quickly?
It has been a ham-fisted way of dealing with an industrial dispute—and it is an industrial dispute which the people of this country support.
The results of this sort of ham-fisted control might be grossly to distort the pattern of retail distribution.
The concept of introducing a proper land levy system was good, but this system has been compiled in the most ham-fisted manner possible.
In some sections of our society to be ham-fisted is something to boast about, and that is the trouble.
One certainly does not want to have ham-fisted regulations which are incapable of enforcement.
