Sentence examples for harsh course from inspiring English sources

Loyal East German Communists embarked on the harsh course, but after Stalin died in March 1953, his successors in Moscow reversed it, in part because of their alarm that 500,000 East Germans had fled to the West in the months after Stalin's 1952 decrees (the Berlin Wall had not yet been built).

The spotlight can be harsh, of course, as seen by the ongoing critique of Gabby Douglas's hair.

The riots were a sort of harsh crash course for bewildered citizens who believed it could not happen or trusted to the long patience of the English character to accept the bad times somehow.

If he wants to get really harsh, of course, Putin could look to Saudi Arabia, whose habit of executing homosexuals has done little to break up what Barack Obama has called the "long history of friendship" between Washington and Riyadh.

This is unbearably harsh, of course – these are all richly talented and hard-working footballers, none of whom deserve to surrender lifelong ambitions – but international tournaments do weird things to our perception of time, distorting it like holidays in the interests of morale and self-preservation.

A passion for adventure in some of the world's harshest environments courses through many of this season's travel books.

The harsh truth, of course, is that people who book for large festivals are ticket-shifters first and foremost, not cultural curators or social subverters.

A few months after Brixton's Bloody Saturday, in the spring of 1981, our London correspondent, Mollie Panter-Downes, summed up the aftermath: The riots were a sort of harsh educational crash course for bewildered citizens who had believed that it could not happen here or had trusted to the long patience of the English character to accept the bad times somehow.

It is, of course, harsh to criticise a striker for failing to score when he hardly missed a presentable chance, but Welbeck worked hard enough here and had enough sight of goal to have repaid Van Gaal in deed on a better day.

This might sound harsh, and of course now we're best friends and I call her and tell her everything, but it was really important that she drew those lines and made it clear that her role was to give us rules and guidance to help us grow.

The nettle of rules and regulations, the web of agencies and regulators, and, of course, the harsh realities of politics combine to make Washington a confounding place.