Other memoirists have recalled equally harsh trials -- McCourt, for example, with whom Lauck shares an agent -- but Lauck is unsurpassed in her use of what might be called literary child labor, in which she employs an adorable younger self to win readers' sympathy.
If we turn our schools into Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, where all is seen and little is allowed, "We risk raising kids who don't know how to solve problems on their own, withstand adversity or bounce back from the harsh trials life inevitably brings".
He said the team of executives--headed by Chief Executive Officer Leslie G. McGraw--that saw the company through its harshest trial is battle-hardened and prepared for anything.
In any U.S. sentencing proceeding — whether in federal, state or military court, and regardless of whether a judge or jury decided the sentence — it would likely be a violation of the Eighth and 14th Amendments for evidence of harsh pre-trial detention conditions and abuse in custody not to be a mitigating factor in sentencing.
But while the Lee case was at its height, his lawyers charged that their client was being unfairly treated because he was jailed under harsh conditions awaiting trial while John Deutch had gone unscathed after a perfunctory investigation for doing...
Punishments for drug-related crimes in Vietnam are relatively harsh, but this trial shows the immensity of drug trafficking problems in the country, our correspondent adds.
Mass arrests, show trials, harsh sentences and incitement to sectarian hatred have blunted the opposition's momentum.
Others contend that plea bargains only benefit innocent defendants, providing an alternative to the risk of a harsher sentence at trial.
It was his prerogative, Steele said, to shield alleged sex crime victims from harsh cross-examination before trial.
Their trial and harsh sentencing will have a perilous effect on our continuing efforts to combat Aids in Malawi and potentially reverse the gains we have achieved.
