Sentence examples for harsh step from inspiring English sources

The situation, it seems to me, cried out for 'alert self-restraint' by way of consideration of the other available correctives, before the judge took the particularly harsh step of sending Mrs. Brown to jail for six months.

Its water is now too saline to use.The authorities are now pondering the harsh step of building a weir at nearby Wellington to stop the salt water moving back into the Murray itself.

Given that Ireland thrashed England in the 2011 tournament (and the Netherlands gave the same team a huge fright), it seems a harsh step on those nations trying to grow their cricket communities.

So with a primary looming next month, the state's Republicans are debating whether to ignore Kentucky's motto, "United we stand; divided we fall", and instead take the harsh step of ditching their own incumbent.Mr Fletcher's main challenger in the primary, Anne Northup, has one big strike against her: she lost her own re-election bid in November, when she was swept out of Congress.

This might be considered a harsh step, but if you've tried other means, you have to rely on their need for future funding to get at the data," Strasser says.

This harsh step generally involves strong chemical or physicochemical conditions to break the lignocellulose structure and release monosaccharide sugars by cellulase enzymes [ 2].

Its main opponents, Israel and the United States, have taken harsh steps already.

In China, hard-liners may want to put the pilot of our plane on trial or take other harsh steps.

But given the harsh steps the city has taken in recent years — in 2010 it shut off a third of its streetlights to save $1.2 million — every bit helps.

The residents filing out of the train station generally agreed that harsh steps are needed; they just didn't like the things that would personally affect them.

Nudging Mr. Trump toward a more free-trade stance that avoids harsh steps toward China and other economic partners is paramount, these people said.