Sentence examples for harsh combination from inspiring English sources

By contrast, General Motors installs high-speed tires on all vehicles sold there, because the heat and fast driving there are a harsh combination for tires.

The accompanying photographs unfavourably compare a Danish example with one in Bloomsbury, the former a harsh combination of concrete, asphalt and granite, the latter a harmonious pattern of York stone, "pleasing to the eye and comfortable under foot" and neatly punctuated by the cast-iron covers of coalholes and inspection chambers.

Moreover, the integrated effect of the periodic exposure to drought through all the stages caused a harsh combination of general and state-specific symptoms.

It's an incredibly harsh combination.

Those years were a harsh combination of wanting to help her, repulsion, and terrible extreme guilt".

In such environments, plant species have to deal with a harsh combination of unfavourable factors including a long period of aridity, which leads to extremely low air humidity, a high proportion of short-wave radiation, low atmospheric pressure and year-round frosts (Körner 2003).

I cook them with honey and fresh ginger (do not substitute dried; it will seem harsh); the combination is beguiling.

Samuel Johnson complained that "his tropes are harsh, his combinations uncouth"; but Johnson had borrowed enough from Browne to feel bitter.

The contrast of fabrics joined in this single form is elegantly harsh, like a combination of Hudson Bay blanket and black tie.

And the oil-rich Gulf monarchies sail on, stifling internal dissent with a combination of harsh laws and generous welfare policies.

Sometimes it is almost unbearable when a combination of harsh blows hammer down - not just the worsening relationship with Kingsley, but the break-up of her daughter Nicola's marriage.