The phrase "a harsh hand" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strict or severe approach to handling a situation or dealing with people.
Example: "The manager ruled the office with a harsh hand, ensuring that everyone followed the rules without exception."
Alternatives: "an iron fist" or "a heavy hand".
Because overdrying may produce a harsh hand, temperature, humidity, and drying time require careful control.
Others, though, called him exactly the wrong kind of person to lead such a mission: a career enforcer for an authoritarian government who had shown a harsh hand in dealing with opponents.
Dunst is dealt a harsh hand, but Jim Parsons fares even worse with his role as a snippy, racist colleague to Henson, forever rolling his eyes in unprogressive protest.
Many of the central characters in these nine tales start out by having a harsh hand dealt them, whether it's cancer, the suicide of an ailing husband or Alzheimer's disease, but somehow manage to find enduring value in their lives as they struggle through their darkest moments.
Soccer's Anglosphere was dealt a particularly harsh hand.
Bahrain's disgruntled Shia majority was put back in its box, with a harsh Saudi hand.
When the celebrations die down in the Labour club bars of Sheffield and Hull tonight, the sober reality will kick in: that they might well have been dealt a harsh cuts hand by the government, but they are the ones who now have to play it.
Ooh this is the first one to sound a bit UK bass, some soft bass and harsh hand claps but the vocals are almost like Animal Collective.
Its condition reveals a lot about the chaotic freedoms of the new Indonesia, where the harsh hand of the dictator has often given way to the unpredictable passions of the mob.
Perhaps Leicester City's run to the Premier League title was too much for the sporting gods and one underdog was enough this year for fickle fate and the harsh hand of fortune.
In any case, the sufferings of the Metsvolk are minor when compared with the harsh hand dealt to Tiger fans, whose team led the American League Central by seven games as late as September 6th and, day by painful day, allowed the margin to shrivel away.
