Sentence examples for been less harsh from inspiring English sources

Why didn't Rodriguez accept a deal from baseball that would have been less harsh than the suspension he is apparently going to fight — that is, if he did use performance-enhancing drugs? A. Baseball was willing to accept a deal for a smaller suspension of Rodriguez, say, perhaps 150 games.

But since the technology sector has moved squarely into the mainstream as a more viable and better understood part of the U.S. economy, life has been less harsh to many startup businesses.

Others have been less harsh in their reactions to the NSA leaker.

He later said that he believed Lincoln would have been less harsh with the South than his successor, Andrew Johnson.

Other gun control advocates were less harsh.

Cancer treatments today tend to be less harsh.

Other aides were less harsh, saying that Gore was brusque and demanding but not unkind.

Occasionally, Laud was less harsh than his enemies admitted, especially to the clergy.

Mr. Medvedev's tone was less harsh, though he also criticized the West.

The high quality factor dynamic mode operation, that is less harsh on the media and the probe, is analyzed.

Thanks to emergency Fund bridge loans, such measures are less harsh than they would otherwise have to be.