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  • s  lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

  • Created as a network-approved alternative to YouTube's grab bag, Hulu was at first roundly mocked as a ham-fisted corporate knockoff of the grass-roots glory that is YouTube.
  • Two years later he went to Chechnya when Russia made its first ham-fisted attempt to suppress the breakaway republic that it has recently bombed into .
  • The incident typified Pius' ham-fisted treatment of the Jews, and many feel his beatification contradicts Pope John Paul II's embrace of that people and his apologies for their .
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    The Easton Police Department is washing its hands of a criminal complaint alleging First Selectman Tom Herrmann brought a critic of his administration to his knees by yanking the man forward in a ham-fisted handshake.
    July 12, 2013 - Connecticut Post
  • BBC presenter apologizes for saying Bartoli's 'not a looker'
    LONDON, July 7 (UPI) -- BBC presenter John Inverdale apologized Sunday for his "ham-fisted" remarks when he said Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli was "not a looker."
    July 7, 2013 - UPI
Quotes

  • Mangosuthu Buthelezi in Independent Online
    IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi called the exodus of ministers an "unmitigated disaster" caused by the ANC's "indecent haste" in removing Mbeki in such an "ill-conceived and ham-fisted" manner.
  • Thomas Ricks in MiamiHerald.com
    Odierno's brigades and battalions earned a reputation for being overly aggressive,Ricks wrote in Fiasco. "Again and again, internal Army reports and commanders in interviews said that this unit ...... used ham-fisted approaches that may...
  • Nick Clegg in Politics.co.uk
    Party leader Nick Clegg said: "I would like to congratulate April Pond for leading an excellent campaign in which she was an incredibly strong local candidate. Gordon Brown's growing failure as prime minister and his ham-fisted treatment of a...

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