House members took turns posing harsh, sometimes-arcane questions to Mr. Corzine and Bradley Abelow, the firm's chief operating officer.
The layoffs have posed harsh choices for Mexican immigrants as they consider whether to live with joblessness in the United States, where food stamps, health benefits and other services are mostly unavailable to them, or return to Mexico, where the outlook is still more foreboding.
The internet has posed some harsh questions for the old ways of working (and making money).
All candidates over-compensate for their negatives, so she poses as harshest on the 3 million EU nationals living in the UK, to use as hostages in EU negotiations.
The Germans, however, posed extremely harsh conditions, causing a split in the Bolshevik high command: Lenin favoured accepting whatever terms the Germans offered, but the majority of his associates, arguing that this would mean a betrayal of the German working class, refused to make formal peace with the imperial government.
But now scientists fear the real impact of declining wildlife could be closer to home, with the threat to creatures such as ladybirds posing the harshest danger to biodiversity.
Officials who strike harsh poses on immigration often focus their anger and law-enforcement firepower on day laborers, who are among the most visible and vulnerable of the recent immigrant population.
The Obama administration is debating how to establish a legal basis for incarcerating detainees deemed too dangerous to be released but not appropriate to be tried because of potential problems posed by their harsh interrogations, the evidence against them or other issues.
Most of us can appreciate the obvious risks posed by pesticides, harsh cleansers, and poor air or water quality.
Scalia's pseudo-patriotic pose masks the harsh reality that the 14 anti-gay marriage holdout states whose interests he fronted on the Court were actually dominated by the old Confederate states, the only states which ever, to preserve slavery, actually tried to destroy the United States.
