Rana Husseini, a Jordanian women's advocate, told me that though an effort to establish harsher punishments for men who kill female relatives received support from members of the royal family, Jordan's Parliament rejected the law in 2003 after conservative groups opposed it.
In Indiana, the disturbing incident coincided with what many in the Jewish community experienced as another blow: A bill intended to establish harsher sentencing for bias-motivated crimes died on the floor of the state senate.
The inadequacy of competition and the profit motive in the provision human services like education and health has been established by harsh experience with consistent failures like PFI hospitals, for-profit schools and private prisons.
Mr Bush established a harsh prison compound inside the Guantanamo complex, named Camp X-Ray in early 2002, to house what he came to call "enemy combatants" in the "war on terror".
The Saharan branch of al-Qaeda was quick to move into this increasingly lawless area, and seized control of the Tuareg north after the March 2012 military coup, effectively seceding from the rest of Mali and establishing a harsh form of Islamic law.
Signals of abiotic resistance involve failure by potential invaders to establish in harsh sites despite the presence of propagules and absence of competitors.
There's no need to shout or yell, because this may scare your cat too much, but if you establish a harsh tone that lets your cat know he has done you wrong, he'll recognize it every time he acts badly.
Opuntia dillenii is an invasive plant well established in the harsh South-Eastern arid zone of Sri Lanka.
