Sentence examples for harsher steps from inspiring English sources

At the urging of the I.M.F., Turkey has been taking tough measures to cut inflation, and the possibility of harsher steps arose over the weekend.

But General Powell conceded then that if the crew remained in China a second week, it would be more difficult to keep members of Congress from publicly pressing for harsher steps.

Collectively, these results strongly indicate that a PK-resistant PrP isoform, generally considered a reliable marker for the presence of the infectious PrPSc agent, is sorbed onto ASL particles, and that its interactions with soil withstand the harsher steps of the immunodetection procedure, i.e. exposure to PK and guanidinium thiocyanate (see Materials and Methods).

Judge Kaplan would not take the harsher step of barring T.C.I. and 3G from voting their shares — in effect sterilizing them.

Suspension is a harsher step than halting payments and sets up a series of major obstacles to the release of additional funds.

The suit did not question the district's right to suspend them, but protested the additional, harsher step the district took, denying them access to the county's alternative school for troubled students or help with study at home.

Its main opponents, Israel and the United States, have taken harsh steps already.

In China, hard-liners may want to put the pilot of our plane on trial or take other harsh steps.

But given the harsh steps the city has taken in recent years — in 2010 it shut off a third of its streetlights to save $1.2 million — every bit helps.

For years the leaders of many of the former Soviet republics have justified harsh steps against political opponents by arguing that they are necessary to keep terrorism at bay.

He said the military might have felt ready to take harsh steps now because it had been working to insulate itself against pressure from the West by strengthening relations with its large Asian neighbors, China, India and Bangladesh.