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.
Nature had struck a harsh blow but human resourcefulness would prevail.
The verdicts, in which a fourth officer was acquitted, also struck a harsh blow to the police because the jury members accepted the word of lifelong street criminals over that of seasoned police officers, a striking loss of credibility for the force.
In his remarks on Tuesday, he struck a harsh tone, saying that American forces' determination to "win the hearts and minds" of the 25 million Iraqis with reconstruction programs remained firm, but that so did the determination to meet attacks with full force.
Photos recorded the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, with JFK Jr. saluting his father's casket; of Martin Luther King Jr., with a famous image of aides pointing toward the assassin; and of Robert F. Kennedy, his face struck by harsh light as he lay on the floor of the Ambasador Hotel kitchen in Los Angeles.
The Supreme Court recently struck a harsh blow against the labor movement when it issued a ruling that effectively made the entire U.S. public sector right-to-work.
Power often struck a harsher tone in her statements than other Administration officials did.
The Sports Minister, Aldo Rebelo, struck a harsher note, saying that protests that disrupted the Confederations Cup would not be tolerated.
The audience was packed with bankers, a group that helped bankroll Mr. Obama's first presidential run before the romance crumbled as the White House struck a harsher tone.
In France, opposition center-right and far-right parties were, unsurprisingly, critical of Mr. Hollande, and while reactions in his own party were more muted, some struck a harsher tone.
