Neither do Chinese loans come with the harsh strings attached to IFI finance.
The Irish people have, however, already been told that they face a string of harsh austerity budgets over the coming years.
Between a string of harsh governmental reports on the tanker-lease arrangement and the taint of the Druyun scandal, many say it is hard to see how Boeing can prevail.
With a string of harsh sanctions that has included a season-long suspension of Pacman Jones and the likely forfeiture of a first-round draft pick for the Patriots, Goodell has lowered the boom on N.F.L. rules-breakers.
Jeff Passan of Yahoo.com argues that it isn't because the testing is not stringent enough, the penalties are not harsh enough and the string of positives means neither of them are scaring players away from synthetic testosterone, which Jayson Stark of ESPN.com fears may be closing in on an epidemic.
Shuddering into life with creeping electronic noises and rolling percussion claps, the quietly poppy offering is soon bolstered by looping synths before a string of harsh yet irresistibly smooth and jubilant hooks escape Kolstø's lungs as if her life depended upon it.
Mimosa played quick-change remixes, switching from verse to verse among harsh drumbeats, quasi-classical strings, even a little ragtime.
Lust For Youth It's You Swedish producer Hannes Norrvide blends syrupy strings with harsh industrial beats to create a sound that is unique but cohesive.
But any music lover could have told you that early digital was often dreadful hard, congealed, harsh, even razory, the strings sounding like plastic, the trumpets like sharp instruments going under your scalp.
Between those works, the Attacca Quartet gave a hard-driven (if occasionally harsh) performance of Mr. Adams's String Quartet (2008).
