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Responses to urban crime have often been selective, reactive and repressive, as with the use of hard-handed responses to youth violence.
Las respuestas a la delincuencia urbana han solido ser selectivas, reactivas y represivas, como las respuestas de mano dura a la violencia juvenil.
You know exactly what my attitude is: a hard hand.
Sabe perfectamente cuál es mi actitud: mano dura.
Not really expecting it from you, I have always said the rebels like you can only be recovered with hard hand.
La verdad, no lo esperaba de tí, aunque siempre he dicho que los rebeldes como tú sólo se les recupera con mano dura.
It was a hard hand that squeezed his as if it were going to break it.
Era una mano dura, que apretaba la suya como si fuera a quebrarla.
It was heavy, and brown, and strong. A hard hand. “Ronnie?”
Era pesada, y morena, y fuerte. Una mano dura. —¿Ronnie? —dije.
I continued to walk though he put a hard hand on my shoulder.
Seguí caminando hasta que su mano dura se plantó en mi hombro.
A hard hand clamped over her mouth and yanked her away from the door.
Una mano dura le tapó la boca y la tironeó para alejarla de la puerta.
“And they’ve got the hard hand, you know, though you’ve got the soft voice. Oh, Gav.
—Aunque tú tienes la voz suave, ellos tienen la mano dura. Oh, Gav.
Well. So Joe wants to put a hard hand on Burney Masters, does he?
Bien, o sea que Joe desea meterle mano dura a Burney Masters, ¿eh?
Then that hard hand, open-palmed, smote him across the mouth, staggering him again.
Luego, aquella mano dura le dio un golpe en la boca haciéndole vacilar de nuevo.
a stubborn man by all reports, stern and hard-handed and unforgiving, he would make for an uncomfortable presence at the council table.
este hombre, testarudo a decir de todos, adusto, de mano dura e implacable, resultaría una presencia incómoda a la mesa del consejo.
A hard hand clutched his shoulders, and tore him so violently from the girl that but for a stack of boxes he would have fallen.
Una mano dura le cogió por los hombros y le separó con tanta violencia de la muchacha que, a no haberse apoyado sobre una pila de cajas, hubiera caído.
Grasping a rifle with hard hands, he thrust it over the wagon-side and looked over the barrel.
Empuñando el fusil con dura mano, apuntó fuera del carro y miró por encima del cañón.
His gem-hard hand was behind her head, drawing her down until their lips met, electric and searing.
Una dura mano recubierta por un guantelete incrustado de gemas se posó tras la cabeza de ella, atrayéndola hasta que sus labios se encontraron, eléctricos y secos.
Even now I can remember the feel of that cold, hard hand as, wifh great effort, I bent straight the fingers which had been drawn into a brown fist.
Aún puedo recordar el contacto de esa fría y dura mano, y cómo, con gran esfuerzo, enderecé los dedos que se habían cerrado formando un oscuro puño.
He let the gun somersault over his finger in the trigger-guard, thumbed back the catch and drew out the double magazine. Then he hammered it back up the handle with the heel of his hard hand, spun the gun back into his palm like a cowboy, and worked the slide.
La hizo girar con el dedo en el seguro del gatillo, echó el fijador para atrás, sacó el cargador y lo volvió a meter con un golpe del pulpejo de su dura mano; como un vaquero, dio vuelta al arma y verificó el eyector de tiro.
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