Sentence examples for harsh sanction from inspiring English sources

A breakup is a harsh sanction.

"It's a harsh sanction, but you have to enforce the rules," Mr. Brennan said.

As my colleague David Goodman reported in March, Iran's government imposed a harsh sanction on Reuters journalists in Tehran, rescinding their press cards, in retaliation for errors in what was apparently intended to be a lighthearted video report distributed by the news agency under the headline, "Thousands of Female Ninjas Train as Iran's Assassins".

"A more likely public reaction to such a harsh sanction in the post-Enron era," he wrote, "is the opposite -- a perception that lawyers can be counted upon not to reveal fraud perpetrated by their clients because any whistle-blowers among them will be severely punished by the courts regardless of the public good that such whistle-blower might accomplish".

"In a place that has no significance for Jews, it is merely an anti-establishment gesture which I feel does not warrant any harsh sanction".

With much of the advanced industrial world shying away from nuclear power even before the Fukushima debacle, I don't see why energy exporter Iran has otherwise been so adamant about having total control of all aspects of a nuclear energy program even as its economy takes heavy blows from increasingly harsh sanction regimes.

Harsh sanctions led Iran to the negotiating table.

The international community needs to impose harsh sanctions," Abe said.

Japan announced harsh sanctions and America and other countries also threatened them.

That brought harsh sanctions on the pasis; yet crime can pay.

The other is that really harsh sanctions might bring about the sudden collapse of his regime.