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".
The story of Jones's breakthrough victory at the club 86 years ago — his first major victory outside the United States — may have set the precedent, portending the harsh trial that would confront every succeeding champion at the course.
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.
Mass arrests, show trials, harsh sentences and incitement to sectarian hatred have blunted the opposition's momentum.
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.
They never received fair trials; just harsh and sometimes absurdly long sentences.
Judging by a recent region-wide flurry of arrests, trials and harsh sentences slapped on dissidents, future scores may well be worse.
Mr. Chirac cataloged measures that the government will immediately carry out to try to prevent anti-Semitic acts, including "precise instructions" for police guards at Jewish institutions, in agreement with Jewish community leaders; special magistrates charged with relations with those leaders; and accelerated trials and harsh penalties for those convicted of anti-Semitic acts.
