Sentence examples for issuing harsh from inspiring English sources
"We would hate to see the pendulum swing that way, where judges are issuing harsh sentences [for fear of public] backlash".
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian government tried to placate protesters with declarations of sweeping reform on Tuesday while also issuing harsh threats of reprisals if demonstrations did not come to an end, as one of the Arab world's most repressive countries struggled to blunt the most serious challenge to the 40-year rule of the Assad family.
WASHINGTON — Despite issuing harsh calls for Tehran to be held to account, the Obama administration does not plan to shift its policy of pressure on the Iranian government after disrupting what officials said was a plot to assassinate a Saudi Arabian envoy in Washington, administration officials said on Wednesday.
Adopting new sanctions, issuing harsh condemnations, and pulling out of negotiations with North Korea have yielded few results in the past.
Those comments have come amid heightened saber rattling from the North Korean regime, whose leader Kim Jong-un last month ordered his country to be ready for imminent nuclear warfare in the wake of the United Nations Security Council issuing harsh new sanctions on the country intended to end its nuclear program.
They have, however, issued harsh warnings.
NOVEMBER 1998 -- The Bureau of Hospital and Primary Care Services issues harsh charges and a $30,000 penalty against the hospital.
But Mr. Kant, the lawyer with Shakti Vahini, said the courts rarely issued harsh judgments in cases involving the rights of domestic help.
Alexes Harris, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington, said it was becoming more common for cities to issue harsh court fines.
They set up sharia courts and issued harsh punishments, including chopping off thieves' hands, in the name of a righteous Islam.
We were pleased to read that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has issued harsh criticism of United States immigration policies, specifically immigrant detention and 287(g), the dangerous program that puts immigration enforcement in the hands of local police.
