Sentence examples for increase the harshness from inspiring English sources

A murder is a murder: there is no precedent in our legal system to increase the harshness of a sentence based on the motive for the crime.

Research shows that even a few days in jail before trial or release can increase the likelihood of receiving a sentence of incarceration – and can increase the harshness of that sentence.

An Oct. 28 letter about hate-crimes legislation states, "There is no precedent in our legal system to increase the harshness of a sentence based on the motive for a crime".

The raw power of her singing increases the harshness of the portrayal.

Examples include increasing the harshness of the decontamination method or increasing the amount of antibiotics.

This can help balance, or "offset" the harshness of color that occurs when you increase the exposure of a photo.

In certain cases, invasive plants may perform better than natives in harsh environments when the invaders themselves increase abiotic harshness in ways that favour conspecific recruitment.

Our model predicts that colonizer survival decreases on all locations in the gap with increasing environmental harshness, but at a slower pace in gap edges (Fig.  7).

ReprintsBut he has also been criticised for the increasing harshness of his politics and for his vaunted experiment in "authoritarian development".

The relatively high altitude of the Chamaecyparis forest in Yuanyang Lake implies increased environmental harshness, including lower annual temperature, which in turn affects the composition and diversity of the soil bacterial community (Lipson [2007]).

Thickening of laryngeal epithelium progressively with age has been reported [9] which may contribute to the lowering of fundamental frequency and increased harshness observed in older voices.