Sentence examples for harsh reign from inspiring English sources
By the time of Zia's death in a plane crash in 1988, his harsh reign was coming unglued in the face of a democratic challenge led by Bhutto's daughter, Benazir.
Ten years ago in Forbes February 6 , 1989A dangerous and unpleasant by-product of glasnost and perestroika seems to be a resurgence of [the] chauvinistic, reactionary Russian nationalism of the Slavophile movement [which erupted in] the 1840s during the harsh reign of Nicholas I.
He succeeds in making the emotional reality of Mariam and Laila's lives tangible to us, and by conjuring their day-to-day routines, he is able to give us a sense of what daily life was like in Kabul — both before and during the harsh reign of the Taliban".
Dodd argues for a date between 96 110 A.D., concluding from the absence of references to persecution in the letters that they were probably written after the harsh reign of the Roman emperor Domitian, whose persecution of Christians seems to have prompted the writing of the Book of Revelation.
Would they like the harsh quiet that reigns here all winter?
Private prisons were born out of a culture of incarceration where harsh sentencing practices reigned supreme, and where prisoners were lining up faster than administrators could lock them away.
Beyond Mopti, the government's most northerly outpost 450km (280 miles) from Bamako, a harsh version of sharia law reigns.
Though he claimed to love his fellow Egyptians, he did not trust them, maintaining the harsh emergency laws imposed after Sadat's assassination throughout his reign.
But their brief reign over Diabaly was a small taste of the harsh policies they have enacted elsewhere.
The established order that reigns for the rest of the year is a harsh and implacable one.
During harsh winters such as that of 1881, an exceptionally cold winter, famine reigned and the severe cold led people to literally lose their limbs due to frostbite: Many have had frostbite here in the East during winter; it is said that two men in the Hérað-district will lose their legs in addition to those three that suffered frostbite in Seyðisfjörður.
