The phrase "a harsh application" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the strict or severe enforcement of a rule, policy, or principle.
Example: "The committee's decision to impose a harsh application of the new regulations left many employees feeling demoralized."
Alternatives: "a strict enforcement" or "a severe implementation."
Thus, the commercial norm buyers ought to honour their commitments even under changed market conditions was enforced by the courts through a seemingly harsh application of an unrelated rule concerning rejection.
DAKAR, Senegal — Islamists who control northern Mali have publicly amputated the hand of a man they accused of robbery, continuing an increasingly harsh application of what the vast region's new masters consider sacred law.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, an Al Qaeda splinter group notorious for its harsh application of Islamic sharia law, continued its advance, seizing the small town of Adeim in Diyala province after Iraqi security forces pulled out, according to a local official cited by the Associated Press.
It has provoked renewed concern over the increasingly harsh application of the lèse-majesté laws, enshrined in Thailand's criminal code and a newer Computer Crime Act.
Incensed by his treatment, Wildebood, a journalist, wrote a campaigning biography, Against the Law, which on its publication in 1955 helped to crystallise opinion against the harsh application of sexual offence laws.
NEWS Even as the world makes plans to recapture northern Mali by force, the Islamists who rule the region show no qualms about continuing their harsh application of Shariah law.
This harsh application of Shariah law, with people accused of being thieves sometimes having their feet amputated as well, has occurred at least 14 times since the Islamist takeover last spring, not including the recent vow of more to come, according to Human Rights Watch and independent observers.
Optical pressure sensors can operate in certain harsh application areas where the electrical pressure sensors cannot.
Nonetheless, the harsh application environment that MSNs and WSANs operate in makes nodes (i.e., sensors and actors) susceptible to physical damage and component malfunction.
We review our recent progresses towards building heterogeneous Si multi-wavelength lasers with exceptional tolerance to harsh application environment and novel controllability.
