Sentence examples for excessively harsh for from inspiring English sources
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.
This is too harsh for the face.
New York's sentencing laws for hard-narcotics convictions have often been criticized as excessively harsh, and have been blamed for crowding the state's prisons with nonviolent offenders serving long terms.
The figure includes 112 days that is being taken off the sentence as part of a pre-trial ruling in which Lind compensated Manning for the excessively harsh treatment he endured at the Quantico marine base in Virginia.
That includes the time already spent in military custody since May 2010, plus 112 days that is being taken off the sentence as part of a pre-trial ruling in which Lind compensated Manning for the excessively harsh treatment he endured at the Quantico marine base in Virginia.
While officials insisted that moving inmates from Quantico was common practice, the uproar over the allegedly excessively harsh conditions in which he was detained had become an embarrassment for the government.
"Federal immigration laws," he said, "are often inflexible, arbitrarily applied and excessively harsh, resulting in the deportation of individuals who have paid the price for their crimes and are now making positive contributions to our society.
A simple version of this approach identifies certain side-constraints to which our pursuit of the consequential benefits of punishment must be subject: constraints that forbid, for instance, the deliberate punishment of the innocent, or the excessively harsh punishment of the guilty.
Its author raged at the "excessively harsh sentences imposed on these boys".
It's clear, realistic, and neither excessively harsh nor ineffectively gentle.
"It was seen as excessively harsh and uncompromising, and caught the attention of the international community.
