Sentence examples for harsh slap from inspiring English sources

Maybe G.M. needs "the harsh slap of bankruptcy" to force it to change, he said.

The mood shifts rapidly, from the gentle touch of gauzy drawings to the harsh slap of bright, messy paint.

Maybe after 50 years of accumulated legacy costs, encrusted bureaucracy and mistakes, General Motors needs the harsh slap of bankruptcy to force on it the kind of change in culture and mind-set that it will take to compete in the future.

A rather harsh slap-down for Hector, who was only reproducing in an email what he heard assorted experts say on the BBC.

Could Senate Republicans deliver a harsher slap in the face to America's working families than heading out for a long holiday recess after repeatedly blocking unemployment aid for hard-working people who've had their jobs taken away?

Then came the Orlando massacre and the harsh, horrific slap of reality -- right in the middle of Pride month.

Judging by a recent region-wide flurry of arrests, trials and harsh sentences slapped on dissidents, future scores may well be worse.

It seemed a harsh public slap-down of a man whose welcome presence behind the microphone at Whaddon Road for Everton's win over Cheltenham on Monday night suggests his future employment with the network is under no threat, despite calls from some hysterical message-board mouth-foamers for he and Chris Waddle, his co-commentator at Field Mill on Sunday, to lose their jobs.

But it's probably more pertinent to ask exactly what China would do if the U.S. actually did slap harsh tariffs on its goods?

It certainly doesn't send a good message to future intelligence officials, though, that they can essentially say whatever they want in public and don't have to suffer anything harsher than a slap on the wrist.

But America and the European trio have already started lobbying other governments around the world to slap on harsher sanctions even if the UN Security Council cannot: thoughts have been turning to more bank bans, a bar on investment in Iran's oil and gasfields, keeping its ships from foreign ports, and more.