Sentence examples for a harsh rule from inspiring English sources

To banks with a lot of securities market activities, that sounds like a harsh rule.

There is a harsh rule of thumb about male height, and it measures six feet and counting.

The festival, called La Tomatina, began as a symbolic repudiation of harsh rule during the Franco era.

Fast forward to 2009, when free elections ended a dictator's decades of harsh rule.

The country lived under the harsh rule of a dictator, Francisco Franco, for nearly forty years.

Eventually, however, the Mongols' harsh rule precipitated a series of rebellions among the Chinese, who overthrew the dynasty in 1368.

The duke was appointed governor of Gibraltar in 1802, but his harsh rule provoked a mutiny there and he was recalled to England.

Mr. Pramoedya spent 11 years as a political prisoner during the harsh rule of President Suharto, which ended more than two years ago.

Or, conceivably there could be a Sunni autonomous region where Sunnis will decide if they would prefer to live under the harsh rule of a terrorist group.

Many Iraqi Sunnis continue to chafe under the rule of a Shiite-dominated government, viewing Sunni militants as a preferable alternative despite Islamic State's harsh rule.

A polarizing figure even in death, Mr. Tour?s remembered both as a pan-Africanist who successfully defied colonial rule and as an autocrat who sheathed his harsh rule in revolutionary ideology.