Sentence examples for potential harshness of from inspiring English sources

This may not have satisfied those seeking a socialist revolution, but it did mitigate the potential harshness of a social order in which status would have wholly given way to contract.

At one point the narrator compares the cityscape of Parisian bridges on screen to a painting by Corot, and indeed Raoul Coutard's inspired cinematography uses the cloudy, drizzly ambience of a Paris winter to bestow a consolatory mist, reminiscent of a Corot, on the potential harshness of this tragicomic film.

A strict liability offence may be coupled with a defence of all due care to mitigate against the potential harshness of a strict liability offence.

In other words, courts must evaluate "the potential harshness of a forfeiture against a property owner with no alleged criminal conduct, or minor culpability," when it comes to claims involving excessive fines.

The composers seem to have been attracted to clusters not for their potential harshness but as a way of skirting (or at least, obscuring) conventional tonality.

Bill Riley, the city prosecutor, emphasizes that McGill took a plea deal and both acknowledged his guilt and understood the harshness of the potential sentence.

The growing harshness of Israeli military practices in the West Bank and Gaza is creating thousands of potential suicide bombers and Israel haters as well as coarsening a generation of young Israeli soldiers.

Because the harshness of the language pales in light of the harshness of the condition.

I could feel the intensity and harshness of the energy.

The harshness of his thrift-shop style still startles.

But the harshness of McDaniel's comment is notable.