But, in the late fifties, profligacy, a mean partner, and changing public tastes brought harsh reversals.
The discovery of the abuse also proved a harsh personal reversal for General Sanchez, 52, a Mexican-American who grew up in poverty in Rio Grande City, Tex., began working at the age of 6, and became his family's first high school graduate, before joining the Army and rising to the most coveted combat command since Vietnam.
The potential U.S. reversal of the harsh penalties that blocked the Chinese company ZTE from accessing U.S. strategic technologies could undermine confidence in U.S. resolve to punish violations.
The reversal brought him harsh criticism and he has since said he made a mistake and effectively renewed his vow.
His junta was widely condemned for its harsh suppression of dissent, although its reversal of the Allende government's socialist policies resulted in a lower rate of inflation and an economic boom between 1976 and 1979.
The reasons for that reversal included the ISI fighters' harsh treatment of the populace in areas under their control and a new counterinsurgency strategy that paid Sunni tribal leaders not to participate in attacks.
B1 Reversal on Terror Plan The Bloomberg administration reversed itself and said it would permit a senior fire official who is a harsh critic of the city's new emergency protocols to testify before the City Council.
This reversal occurred after Mohammed was subjected to simulated drowning and prolonged sleep deprivation, among other harsh interrogation techniques.
There's the DOJ's reversal on a lawsuit against Texas' discriminatory strict voter ID law (one of the harshest in the country) that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund was helping to fight (Sherrilyn Ifill was in this meeting with Sessions).
Potential opponents scent opportunism — and vulnerability — in Ms. Gillibrand's positive but inadequately explained reversals upon entering the Senate: suddenly advocating for gun control, for example, and discarding her harsh stand on immigration.
