Sentence examples for harsh stand from inspiring English sources

Mr Pitt has avoided a harsh stand; at the time, he opposed his predecessor's efforts to bar auditors from providing consulting services to their audit clients.

Taking a harsh stand against immigration, he says, "is unbelievable shortsightedness," because it ignores a fundamental truth about elections: "Issues are not how voters decide.

The Group of 8 is also expected to take a harsh stand against Syria's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, officials said.

No doubt the current leadership thinks that its harsh stand against open political debate helped the regime survive the turmoil of 1989 at home and in Eastern Europe, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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.

Mr Coates thinks that there could be two quite different outcomes, with the US taking a more harsh stand on what Apple and the publishers have done compared with Europe.

The Whig administrations of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore did not pursue the matter and took a harsher stand against filibusters, with federal troops intercepting several expeditions bound for Cuba.

Such harsh penalties stand at odds with Bali's reputation for being a peaceful respite from the rest of the world.

One called for "good Christians" to raise arms against a TV network; another took a harsh anti-immigrant stand.

"It looked harsh from the stand, the second yellow," he said.

Having said that, I said on Sunday that the penalty for Marquez was harsh and I stand by that.