Sentence examples for harshly put from inspiring English sources

Sporadic revolts have been harshly put down.

(As if to prove their point, the protests were harshly put down, injuring thousands).

Watching Billick at work, the point seems well taken, if a bit harshly put.

His supporters were at the forefront of widespread antigovernment street protests in 2011, which were harshly put down by the police.

In 1947 while Chiang was still on the mainland, they staged an uprising against his resident surrogates, but the revolt was quickly & harshly put down.

Hughes writes, "He seems to have taken, as one essayist rather harshly put it, no more interest than a carpenter in philosophical or theological matters, and his views on painting... were very down-to-earth: Goya was no theoretician".

As Qaddafi moved harshly to put down the rebellion, vowing to "cleanse Libya house by house," President Obama was reluctant to get involved, and his aides argued about the wisdom of forcing Qaddafi from power.

Mike Sullivan was, to put it harshly, a failed writer.

Kevin: To put it harshly, it was middle-class yuppie narcissism.

"But to put it harshly, I think that he did it to guarantee some debts".

As Vincent Tan succinctly put it, harshly though not unfairly: "This is a racist chairman hiring a racist manager.