Sentence examples for harsh extreme from inspiring English sources

While the extended family has created a homey compound, with chickens, goats and a vegetable garden, they cannot afford solar panels or a propane refrigerator, and the recession has pushed their thriftiness to a harsh extreme.

Australia has always been a place of harsh, extreme weather – "a sunburnt country… a land…. of drought and flooding rains", as one of the nation's best-loved poets, Dorothy Mackellar, put it.

That the fraud was substantially less than originally estimated should be a cause for celebration; instead it is justification to continue this prolonged investigation by 200 CID agents who have resorted to harsh, extreme, and shameful tactics to justify an erroneous initial estimation and misrepresentation to Congress.

It holds the centre ground between two harsh extremes.

Though not an expert in the harsh extremes that life can endure, Bridges suspects the salty conditions in the Martian water might be too much to survive.

The dust might have been created in a supernova explosion millions of years ago and shaped by their exposure to the harsh extremes of space.

Bred by these and other artists and by tourist iconography, musicals, and films, the notions of an almost blissfully carefree and easy way of life, devoid of harsh extremes of any type, played out on islands of great beauty and natural abundance, persisted into the 21st century in the popular imagination.

It is a place of harsh extremes of climate: of long winters when blizzards drive down from the mountains and snow lies thick on the plains, of summers whose heat is relieved only by scanty rains, with drought biting deep into the soil, and dry winds stealing moisture from leaf and stem.

Real, life-long security comes not from the barrel of a gun or from being able to spy on your fellow citizens like a Stasi informant; it comes with less harsh extremes of wealth and poverty and increased access to health care and education.

A European team launched tardigrades into the harsh extremes of outer space on the outside of a rocket, and they returned to Earth alive!

For thousands of years, the tree appeared in a stunted shrub formation (also known as a krummholz formation) due to the harsh extremes of the environment in which it lives.