Sentence examples for harsh questioning from inspiring English sources

But Harlan W. Waksal, the former chief operating officer who became chief executive after his brother resigned three weeks ago, was subject to sometimes harsh questioning.

He has been a frequent guest over the years on Sunday morning talk shows, discussing policy with a professorial mein, but sometimes bristling under harsh questioning.

Neither side wants to see a moment similar to the one that occurred at Samuel Alito's confirmation hearing, when his wife fled the room in tears after some particularly harsh questioning.

In his second day before the committee, Mr. Ashcroft, a former senator of Missouri, faced stiff, sometimes harsh, questioning from Democrats who challenged him on issues including abortion, gun control and his record on civil rights.

While the Republican majority probably will assure his confirmation, he's certain to face criticism and harsh questioning from Democratic lawmakers, who have denounced him as a mouthpiece of the fossil fuel industry and yet another potential Trump Cabinet member who has questioned the scientific consensus around climate change.

Under often harsh questioning from Democratic members of the panel, Ms. Rice dismissed the importance of the still-classified August 2001 report that had been prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, describing it as "historical information based on old reporting -- there was no new threat information".

His harshest questioning came from Mr. Kean, a courtly, patrician figure who is usually the most gentle and polite of the commissioners in questioning witnesses.

In the process, he lashed out again at Ms. Sebelius in unusually harsh terms, questioning her credibility and integrity.

Too often, like Rob Eisman, they subject themselves to harsh self-questioning; just as often, the abyss that divides their lives from those of parents with more typically developing children breeds an empathy deficit that expresses itself in even harsher questioning from outsiders.

It could seem that the electorate's previous preference for the Tory leader is waning while Ed Miliband's reputation has shot up after a surprising effort in the face of harsher questioning during The Battle for Number 10.

But the harsher questioning, from Democrats and Republicans alike was reserved for Mr. Rumsfeld, especially after he and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell acknowledged in testimony that they had been aware of intelligence reports in 2001 warning of the especially dire terrorist threat against the United States.