Sentence examples for in which harsh from inspiring English sources

It was followed by trials in which harsh sentences were passed.

After the Thailand confrontation, the F.B.I. forbade its agents from taking part in sessions in which harsh methods were used.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, F.B.I. officials have refused to allow agents to take part in C.I.A. interrogations in which harsh methods were used, questioning the effectiveness of the techniques.

A former senior CIA official said the secretary of state at the time, Colin Powell, eventually was informed about the program and sat in meetings in which harsh interrogation techniques were discussed.

The boys were drawn from a larger study and represented two extremes: half came from the poorest, most splintered African American families in which harsh parenting and maternal depression were present; the other half came from the study's most affluent African American families, in which family stability, nurturing care and maternal mental health were the order of the day.

Since violence between sexual partners exacerbates the risk of HIV (Dunkle et al. 2004; Maman et al. 2000), this is one of the more direct ways in which harsh parenting can cause SRH problems.

He's echoing his revolutionary design for An Inspector Calls, another play in which a harsh external world taps on the door of a protected domestic circle.

But Roehrig wasn't the only analyst who anticipated a situation such as the one we're currently witnessing, in which the harsh reality of nuclear-armed North Korea came into conflict with the official U.S. policy of seeking to prevent such an outcome.

In particular, there were reports of his Hamlet and Jimmy Porter, in which he combined harsh diction with headlong speed.

Investigators said they found a letter that Mr. McLendon had dropped in a mailbox in which he described harsh feelings toward family members.

I prefer this melancholy portrayal to Crawford's better-known work for George Cukor in the all-female "The Women" (1939), in which she's harsh and grating as a perfume-counter saleswoman preying on rich married men.