Sentence examples for harsh standard from inspiring English sources

No other state in the US applies such a harsh standard.

It is a harsh standard to say that an employee should do something about being paid too much.

That is indeed a harsh standard, and not one I want governing my life, or those of other people.

Now, expensive as it is, we hold up events and invitations to the harsh standard of whether they are "sitterworthy".

According to international human-rights activists, his prison's harsh standard of treatment, which falls well below international norms, is contributing to serious illness.

They want to relax the harsh standard and implement their new policy called "Just Try Not To Make It Super Obvious, Gary".

Frustrated by Wade's attempts to cling to power and harsh standards of living, voters gave Sall a comfortable majority in the March 2012 election.

States are adopting harsh standards for voter registration drives to make it harder for people to register, as well as draconian voter identification laws to make casting a ballot harder for poor people, racial minorities, the elderly and students.

In the days that followed, the Iraqi leader showed unusual restraint, at least by the harsh standards of the past, in dealing with family members who had protested in Baghdad's streets for information about long-lost kin who vanished into Mr. Hussein's gulag of prisons and detention centers.

And let's hold the authorities to the same harsh standards they apply to our adolescents.

Particularly popular among the pro-life crowd are laws meant to regulate abortion clinics out of existence through harsh standards and requirements that pro-choice advocates argue are medically unnecessary.