Sentence examples for on a unforgiving from inspiring English sources

Peter saw Russia's limited access to the ocean as one of its greatest weaknesses, and though it meant tens of thousands of dead serfs to build a city on a unforgiving swamp, he had St Petersburg built on the Gulf of Finland for this very reason: he would reach the sea at every opportunity.

The attacks highlighted the fragility of a deal agreed last week in Munich for a "cessation of hostilities" and the impact on civilians of an unforgiving air war led by the Kremlin that has helped consolidate Assad's position and exacerbated the misery of the five-year conflict, driving tens of thousands out of their homes towards the Turkish border.

IF you want to take on an unforgiving, and ultimately undoable task, try challenging Lawrence B. MacGregor Serven's heartfelt belief that office politics are not -- that's right, not -- an endemic part of human nature.

Around 75 people showed up on the night of an unforgiving downpour.

Set very specifically in early 1970, when the great wave of the 1960s had duly broken and rolled back, Inherent Vice is littered with California casualties who find themselves washed up on the dark shores of an unforgiving decade.

Of course, it's not as easy as it may seem to outsiders — scores of stories, hundreds or thousands of names, every day, all day long, on an unforgiving deadline of right this minute.

It fits neatly into Gray's scheme of animosity, and shows that we are yet to heed the central lesson of Darwin's work: humanity is no different from other species in being doomed to extinction on an unforgiving planet.

Best victory: Maxim Belkov, stage nine In awful conditions on an unforgiving, undulating course – where Wiggins and even Nibali struggled – the Russian broke clear of an advance 45km group to win on his own, 44 seconds ahead of anyone.

It had been a hard day on an unforgiving surface for bowlers and Anderson's wicket had brought to an end a seventh-wicket partnership of 105 between Ramdin and Jason Holder, who was to complete a maiden Test century just before the end of the match.

Luke Donald, Russell Knox, Mathew Goggin, K.J. Choi, all of them slipped away with a stretch of mistakes on an unforgiving course that warmed steadily under sunny Pennsylvania skies.

As he ran onto the field in Samara Arena, Arzani had 20-odd minutes to prove his worth on an unforgiving world stage.