The phrase "hard sentence" is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is often used to refer to a difficult situation or a punishment or consequence that is harsh or severe. For example, “He was sentenced to three years in prison - that’s a hard sentence.”.
And when it comes to drugs and violent crime, the two plagues hard sentencing was supposed to cure, it has failed dramatically.
Of course much of it passed me by - but I'd been raised on a rich and frequently indigestible diet of the King James Bible, and was used to breaking my teeth on hard sentences.
"That is the hardest sentence I've written thus far".
It is a harder sentence to "see through".
The fun in Billy Wilder feels like an attack; sleeping around the office was never quite the same after "The Apartment," which — contrary to the charges of misogyny that have been laid at Wilder's door — passes much harder sentence on the guys than on the dolls.
Here the male student was not given any penalty but the female student was suspended, even though nothing in the process that we analyzed suggested that the female's infraction warranted a harder sentence than the male's.
After the death of his father, the result of a grueling sentence of hard labor, Mr. Yeung himself is jailed, although the details of the episodic story are sometimes hard to pick out.
To counteract this, the Tories announced a new "Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill", which purports to introduce harder sentences for the perpetrators of abuse.
To counteract this, conservatives announced a new "Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill," which purports to introduce harder sentences for the perpetrators of abuse.
Imposing harder sentences of between 12 to 30 years' imprisonment, the bill also includes longer jail terms for crimes committed against pregnant women, girls under 14, women over 60 and women and girls with disabilities.
