steady-handed

The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

It is the steady accretion of detail that may yet be the most damaging factor in the battle for British hearts and minds.

Some “hanging judges” have handed down hundreds of death sentences at a time.

No indictments have been handed down against the police officers in question.

The last of the cigars was handed out and the Che lookalike was paid and went back in search of other tourists.

"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

Again the young fellow repeats his fatal "Banco," as he stakes a fresh pile of notes handed to him by the obsequious Jew.

The minister's eye kept steady to one point; to raise the country he governed, to the utmost pinnacle of earthly grandeur.

Lawrence handed the General the mysterious message and Schofield read it with a darkened brow.

Still, if such an envelope should be handed him, he would breathe easier until it was opened.