Sentence examples for are excessively harsh from inspiring English sources

Count me in the camp that says these fines are excessively harsh and that Ron Artest has been unfairly singled out.

The lawyers also raised new complaints about what they say are excessively harsh jail conditions imposed on their clients since the stabbing of the officer, Louis Pepe, in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan on Nov. 1.

Greece's Syriza government has said it will implement its side of the bargain with lenders, but has long maintained that the bailout terms are excessively harsh.

Ms. Ansanelli's speed indicated that she was a wild forest creature, but her movements were excessively harsh and abrupt.

His candidacy had galvanized the opposition of a local literary pantheon, including Norman Mailer, Nat Hentoff and others, who thought his prosecution of Mr. Bruce had been excessively harsh.

But even if the allegation were correct, the lawyers said, "a sanction of disbarment would be excessively harsh, impermissibly punitive and unprecedented in the circumstances of this case".

"A sanction of disbarment would be excessively harsh, impermissibly punitive and unprecedented in the circumstances of this case," wrote the lawyers, David E. Kendall and Nicole K. Seligman of Washington.

A week after taking office, she sent back to parliament a new language law, criticised by the West as well as by Russia, that was excessively harsh; for example, it insisted that private commercial transactions should be in Latvian.

The suspension works well enough to keep the bike stable while traversing bumps, but it is excessively harsh in comparison with models from competitors that come factory-equipped with premium forks and shock absorbers.

"The techniques used in Don Dale were excessively harsh, and the continuing explosion in the rates of incarceration of young Australians in parts of the country is a national shame," Gray says.

Although Ecclestone sat on the WMSC panel that decided to ban Briatore, the Briton admitted in Singapore last weekend that he thought Briatore's ban had been excessively harsh – a stance that subsequently drew criticism from Sir Martin Sorrell, who is a shareholder of F1's commercial rights holder CVC.