Sentence examples for start harsh from inspiring English sources

Although a couple of legal commentators like Brookings Fellow Stuart Taylor Jr. picked up on and discussed the issue, the Bush Administration, unbeknown to anyone at the time, had already begun by June 2002 to go over to the "dark side," ordering the CIA to start "harsh interrogation tactics" and to use extralegal torture at "black sites".

I started to get harsh and envious criticism and I now don't expect to get good reviews any more.

He was not a drinker, nor had he ever touched marinated pig liver or tongue, but he imagined that a friendship between two men should start over harsh liquor and variety meats.

"Mullah Omar started using harsh language against the kingdom," the prince said in an interview today.

But when Pierce was reintroduced with the rest of the starting Celtics, harsh reality officially gave way to postseason fantasy.

"Despite their claims of friendship with the Iranian nation, the Americans started imposing harsh and widespread oil and banking sanctions on Iran, and they insist that they should not be considered enemies in spite of these hostile actions," he said in a broadcast speech.

After the floods in Benin, school year starts under harsh conditions GANVIE, Benin, 16 December 2010 – In the past two months, Benin has experienced some of its worst floods since the 1960s.

Presumably, the theory was to start with these harsh measures to eventually win support from anti-immigrant legislators for a sweeping reform that would include positive elements for immigrant communities.

The candidates and their teams started exchanging harsher words, and ethnic goading became a staple of rallies.

The markets, which have turned perhaps too benign an eye so far, could start delivering a harsher verdict sooner than the putative August debt cap deadline.

"I feel for him because to go out to a false start is harsh.