Due in large part to loss of life throughout the years of military campaigns, high death rates among fanompoana workers, and harsh traditions of justice under her rule, the population of Madagascar is estimated to have declined from around 5 million to 2.5 million between 1833 and 1839, and from 750,000 to 130,000 between 1829 and 1842 in Imerina.
American naval officers were upset at the time, calling it a violation of an international naval tradition of offering safe havens during harsh weather.
Those who have taken steps away from the community criticize its conformity, its increasing religiosity, and its harsher traditions.
There was nothing modest about the Ba'athists' inaugural reign of terror; few knew it then, but it was chiefly his handiwork, and quite different from anything hitherto experienced in a country already notorious for its harsh political tradition.
They are discovering more and more young women who have set themselves on fire, desperate to escape the cruelties of family life and harsh tribal traditions that show no sign of changing despite the end of Taliban rule and the dawn of democracy.
Calimocho wine should be "strong and dry," according to Mr. Ureña, or, if you wish to follow botellón tradition, harsh and cheap.
Regardless of their coats' source, Russians have shown little sign of loosening their hold on a fashion born of harsh weather and long tradition.
The Peterson controversy exemplifies how this tradition of harsh discipline is clashing with growing anti-child-abuse laws that punish parents.
Sometimes an artistic tradition was regional, harsh, and arresting, as in Crete or, as in Massilia and Emporion in the far west, a weak reflection of finer styles.
In many regions disputes have intensified as centuries of wine-making tradition battle the harsh reality of global competition against commercially produced New World exports.
