He asked a friend for a menthol cigarette, which he thought was a "less harsh" option.
Early last week, news leaked that Selig was entertaining harsher punishment options for A-Rod, perhaps even a lifetime ban from the game of baseball.
States passed laws making life without parole an option for certain aggravated murders, meaning there was a sufficiently harsh alternative to the death penalty.
In the end, does the president need a harsher level of military options to both deter and punish an aggressor, which means forces sufficient to occupy an enemy and even topple a regime?
In a statement, the defense minister, Ehud Barak, said that the military had been "evaluating a host of options for harsher responses against Hamas and the other terror organizations in Gaza" and that "it is Hamas that will pay the heavy price, a price that will be painful".
In the end, to be of morbid mind is, according to James, the better option - the harsh realities that the healthy-minded cheerily repel "may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth".
"I was neglected and abused in a harsh institution when I had the option of love and a family life with my foster mother in England," O'Brien said.
Although Monro promoted ideas of reform, his suggested treatment beating patients was as harsh on patients as Battie's preferred option, of completely isolating patients from society.
Existing lead-free solder options for harsh environmental operating conditions are evaluated along with the pros and cons in RoHS compliance.
Obama shows restraint and a reluctance to resort to violence as long a he has a better option, as in the case of harsh sanctions against Iran.
