Wetherell admitted that the suspension of local elected government is a harsh but necessary step toward rectifying years of financial mismanagement the by the Misick administration.
As Mr Ahamed explains, its staff treat their unpopularity in some parts of the world "almost as a badge of honour, seeing themselves as economic doctors willing to prescribe harsh but necessary medicine".
Sounds harsh, but necessary.
A year later, he conceded in a television interview that some of the techniques he used were harsh -- but necessary, given the attitudes of children whose problems often involved drugs, alcohol and poor self-esteem.
Yes, that is rather harsh, but absolutely necessary, I'm afraid.
They said the culling "may seem harsh, but in nature is necessary to ensure a strong pride of lions with the greatest chance of survival".
The zoo added that the culling "may seem harsh, but in nature is necessary to ensure a strong pride of lions with the greatest chance of survival".
"We had some reforms that have been seen as quite harsh, but they have also been necessary".
Speaking to the BBC on Tuesday, the communications minister said Australia's border protection policies were harsh, but not cruel, and were necessary to stop people smuggling.
"This may, of course, seem harsh, but in nature it is necessary to ensure a strong pride of lions with the greatest chance of survival," the zoo explained.
Everything to do with it relied upon a single axiom: that each new initiative or set of negotiations with the Israelis, every policy or programme (even the creation of undemocratic institutions under military occupation), could be presented as carried out in good faith under harsh conditions: necessary for peace, and in the service of our national cause.
