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Based on a novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, Mr. Salles's film visits a corner of the world -- rural Brazil in 1910 -- governed by a harsh code of honor and retribution.

On the tapes played Tuesday, for example, Mr. Mohamud is seen at some points gesturing animatedly with both arms, gazing upward, as he talks about what seems a harsh code of retribution for the deaths of Muslims by the American military.

His father's abandonment and the harsh code of the streets made Jay-Z, in his words, "a guarded person" — wary of feeling or exposing too much, and practiced in the art of detachment.

They are a pernicious lot guided by the harsh codes of an untamed land where a hangman roams for hire and the sheriff has the oily manner of a corrupt preacher.

A harsh penal code, below-subsistence wages and the remorseless compulsions of mechanised production schooled a wasting peasantry that had lived by the rhythms of season, into the iron laws of industrial life.

And he denied reports that the hijackers would have been put to death under the harsh Taliban code of justice had they returned home.

Stars of Hollywood are boycotting one of the area's most famous hotels because of a harsh Islamic penal code introduced by Brunei's government.

But Mr. Liu published a harsh critique of the writings.

Steubenville is a harsh reminder of the alternative.

He is also a harsh critic of the Chinese Communist Party.

In the Jim Crow era, blacks and whites lived with a code of hyper-politeness as a way to smooth the edges of a harsh racial system and, of course, keep it in place, scholars of Southern culture say.