Sentence examples for harsher standards from inspiring English sources

Society still judges women by harsher standards than men in love and family matters, although even Tolstoy, a social conservative at a time when all but the penurious relied on nannies, would probably be surprised by contemporary discussions about whether child care damages children.

"Research shows that women do have to prove themselves, work themselves harder and they are evaluated to a harsher standard," notes Simard.

The sentence came with a "terrorism enhancement" provision that allows a judge to apply a harsher standard if the crime fits the traditional concept of "terrorism".

Frustrated by Wade's attempts to cling to power and harsh standards of living, voters gave Sall a comfortable majority in the March 2012 election.

Until now, advocates of the bill said, New York State had one of the harshest standards for determining whether to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment of an incapacitated patient.

In the days that followed, the Iraqi leader showed unusual restraint, at least by the harsh standards of the past, in dealing with family members who had protested in Baghdad's streets for information about long-lost kin who vanished into Mr. Hussein's gulag of prisons and detention centers.

And let's hold the authorities to the same harsh standards they apply to our adolescents.

Particularly popular among the pro-life crowd are laws meant to regulate abortion clinics out of existence through harsh standards and requirements that pro-choice advocates argue are medically unnecessary.

No other state in the US applies such a harsh standard.

It is a harsh standard to say that an employee should do something about being paid too much.

That is indeed a harsh standard, and not one I want governing my life, or those of other people.