Sentence examples for harshness towards from inspiring English sources

Its commitment to meritocracy explains both its dynamism and its harshness towards failure.

And Hamas is acting with renewed harshness towards dissent, especially against "Tamarod" ("Revolt"), a nebulous group echoing Egypt's anti-Islamist movement of the same name.

In Britain today, with a government whose reasserted harshness towards disability seems to know no limits, it may be more important to insist on this than ever before.

His disapproval of the ungentlemanly harshness towards the Germans of the Treaty of Versailles is what propels him towards his collaborationist doom.

He risks deepening the gulf between his apparent softness towards Tory MPs on expenses and his harshness towards, say, families struggling with the bedroom tax.

This harshness towards Putin is perhaps explained by the fact that, in the US, the leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC).

Some think that retributivism is inherently inclined towards cruel harshness (Dolinko 1991; Garland 2001; Whitman 2003; Ristroff 2009), but this is a mistake (Robinson 2008; Flanders 2010; Gray and Huber 2010; Duus-Otterström 2013).

This implies the need for much less harshness of judgment, first towards ourselves since harshness most often results in the backlash of shame, humiliation, ultimate resentment and even revenge.

Geoffrey's ambitions may have included becoming King of England, which may account for some of the harshness that his two legitimate half-brothers displayed towards him.

"Harshness, paradoxically, is intimate".

But, though appalled by the harshness with which rallies have often been crushed, Glezos reserves his greatest criticism for the attitude of Germany and Britain towards Greece.