Based on a novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, Mr. Salles's film visits a corner of the world -- rural Brazil in 1910 -- governed by a harsh code of honor and retribution.
His father's abandonment and the harsh code of the streets made Jay-Z, in his words, "a guarded person" — wary of feeling or exposing too much, and practiced in the art of detachment.
On the tapes played Tuesday, for example, Mr. Mohamud is seen at some points gesturing animatedly with both arms, gazing upward, as he talks about what seems a harsh code of retribution for the deaths of Muslims by the American military.
The audience, like Lady Windermere, are forced to soften harsh social codes in favour of a more nuanced view.
Alongside Benjamin Franklin he helped reform Pennsylvania's harsh penal code.
The Nassau County Legislature has approved a bill that would soften what critics say is an overly harsh eviction code.
And he denied reports that the hijackers would have been put to death under the harsh Taliban code of justice had they returned home.
A harsh penal code, below-subsistence wages and the remorseless compulsions of mechanised production schooled a wasting peasantry that had lived by the rhythms of season, into the iron laws of industrial life.
C. 700 BCE - c. 601 BCE Draco, also spelled Dracon (flourished 7th century bc) Athenian lawgiver whose harsh legal code punished both trivial and serious crimes in Athens with death hence the continued use of the word draconian to describe repressive legal measures.
However, he opposed harsh Islamic penal codes and promoted better job prospects for women.
