'harshly opposed' is a correct phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to describe strong opposition to a particular policy, opinion, or person. For example: The new policy was harshly opposed by the mayor's political opponents.
But the association has sharpened its edge over the years, moving from its well-known crusades for public "decency" to harshly opposing what it calls an anti-Christian "homosexual agenda" — not only same-sex marriage and the acceptance of gay troops in the military, but any suggestion that homosexual "behavior is normal".
They were treated harshly by opposing hitters.
In his introduction, Strausbaugh cautions against "judging the extremists too harshly," but he is not opposed to doing a bit of harsh judging himself.
Some of his strategists have been trying to get him to change his mind, but they say that his wife, Jane, has opposed attacking Clinton too harshly.
Politicians and entrepreneurs who have opposed Putin have been treated harshly, underscored by the long imprisonment of billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Matthew Fisher, a Moscow veteran and syndicated columnist for Postmedia news, wrote under the headline "Putin's Fall from Grace": "The question nobody yet knows the answer to is whether Putin will answer his critics with real financial, legal and political reforms or choose to deal harshly with those who oppose him.
The Iranian leader, a mid-rank Shiite cleric who has studied philosophy, has harshly criticized those who have sought to portray Islam as a religion of hate opposed to the West.
Her route of departure was harshly criticized by Craig Aaron, the president and chief executive of Free Press, a media interest group that had opposed the Comcast-NBC merger.
