"harsh losses" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to signify a difficult experience or event that involved a great deal of loss, whether that be financial, emotional, physical, etc. For example, "The team suffered some harsh losses in the playoffs this year."
That said, England's defence shut out Wales and the visitors' desire to improve on that slightly harsh loss is evident.
Such an assessment typically involves extremely harsh loss estimates for every loan category in Year 1 and higher-than-average loss estimates for loans in Years 2 and 3, the elimination of dividend payments, and a valuation of the bank's prospects based primarily on its deposits — not its loan portfolio.
Although by-elections are regarded as unreliable bellwethers of voting patterns in general elections, the Donegal result was a further pointer to what many Irish political commentators expect to be a harsh loss for Fianna Fail in a general election that Mr. Cowen has indicated he will call for February or March.
Of the 920 job cuts in the army, it's the Gurkhas who face the harshest losses.
In conclusion, with M=2 sources, the proposed technique performs largely better than PNC and NO NC, especially when the channel conditions are harsh (high loss rate, small capacity) and the preferences are skewed.
In his novels and novellas, the South African writer J. M. Coetzee has mapped a harsh geography of loss and violence, denial and perseverance.
In marine floating drilling, emergency disconnection of a drilling riser is required in harsh environments or loss of dynamic positioning control.
Hurricane Sandy caused many layers of destruction across New York, some too brutally seen under the harsh spotlight of loss, others more hidden, their own kinds of sadnesses becoming more visible as the weeks went on.
Journalistic fraud can carry its own harsh punishments -- the loss of a job, humiliation, expulsion from the profession.
