Sentence examples for impose a harsh from inspiring English sources

Once the Shabab take over an area, they impose a harsh form of Islamic law, banning music, soccer, even bras.

Others fear Beijing will impose a harsh punishment in order to intimidate and silence Pu's many thousands of supporters.

Diplomats and others consider him a central figure in the jihadists' attempt to impose a harsh version of Shariah law in Mali's vast north — an initiative that has helped push nearly 400,000 people from the region.

Israel is a secular society that some say is growing less secular with religious militants and the chief rabbinate that would like to impose a harsh and exclusive interpretation of Judaism upon the entire society.

He was laid off in 2009 a year laterr, Greece, which had racked up enormous debt, agreed to a bailout from international creditors on the condition that it impose a harsh regimen of spending cuts and other economic reforms.

But the United States military should conduct a fast and thorough investigation, hold a court martial and if the killer is convicted – which I'm sure he will be – impose a harsh sentence.

When a state superior court later forced Kistler to impose a harsher sentence, Kistler expressed regret.

The court has ordered the original trial judge in Pretoria to impose a harsher sentence.

He had spent 42 days in psychiatric evaluation at Chino State Prison but, he said, feared that a judge, now deceased, would impose a harsher sentence.

There's a possibility that another court may impose a harsher sentence or may reconsider the verdict of culpable homicide and convict him of murder.

Expressing regret that he could not impose a harsher penalty, a federal judge sentenced Lemrick Nelson yesterday to 10 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of Yankel Rosenbaum in the Crown Heights racial unrest of 1991.