Sentence examples for proved harsh from inspiring English sources

That judgment proved harsh: Mr Carney is sticking to his original plan.

But the transition from goat herding to freshman civilization proved harsh, and he soon hitchhiked back to New Mexico.

Nonetheless, the new Norman aristocracy proved harsh landlords.

"We are still in the first month of 2013, which has already proved harsh for millions of children suffering in Syria and for refugees who had to flee to neighbouring countries.

There are standard and sport suspension alternatives, of which the latter better suits the SLK's aura without proving harsh over bumps.

The spotlight of publicity has proven harsh: earlier this year a newly elected Salafist MP was caught in flagrante fondling a young lady in a parked car; another who claimed that his bruised face was the result of a politically motivated assault turned out to have had a nose job.

"Banks will never turn on the taps after a bad day," Mr Sanusi admitted between the first and second audits.Some argue that the treatment is proving harsher than the disease, and take little comfort from the chances of eventual improvement.

Gallows, though, proved too harsh.

The law soon proved so harsh in practice that even some of the lawmakers who'd championed it had regrets.

"And finally, will you impose, if this is proved, very harsh penalties on all the oil companies involved and give those billions of pounds in penalties back to the motorist?" Energy Secretary Ed Davey defended the OFT as an "independent body, a strong body", which has powers to determine its own investigations.

The discovery of the abuse also proved a harsh personal reversal for General Sanchez, 52, a Mexican-American who grew up in poverty in Rio Grande City, Tex., began working at the age of 6, and became his family's first high school graduate, before joining the Army and rising to the most coveted combat command since Vietnam.