Sentence examples for harsh years from inspiring English sources

The elderly complain that even during the harsh years under Joseph Stalin they always had bread.

Mandela wrote that he had learned much of value through enduring long, harsh years of imprisonment.

In Guernsey's German Occupation Museum, we had a glimpse of those harsh years.

The piteous prisoner, hoarfrosted with many harsh years, was bound naked to an A-frame.

Proponents of austerity will probably note that the harsh years planted some of the seeds of Mexico's recovery.

During the Regina convention she staked out a policy of creating jobs and restoring social-welfare programmes after the harsh years of deficit-cutting.

"In Europe it's been a harsh year," Blixt said.

Economists said that unseasonably harsh year-end weather had a mixed effect on the report.

But after a harsh year when consumers lost faith in how companies like Facebook managed their data, it feels heartening to know that someone in the tech industry is making a browser for the people.

If cracking margins ultimately plumb the same relative depths of profitability (or lack thereof), then 2016 could prove to be a harsh year indeed for refiners.

The original novella was written in 1943 (one of the harshest years of the Occupation), when Colette was seventy.