Then the military, with the claim of suppressing anarchy, would take harsh action, often with the public's approval.
The government has responded by ordering a nighttime curfew and declaring a state of emergency, a gesture that will empower officials to take harsh action against any protests that don't suit them.
Arab terrorism built support for right-wing Israeli politicians, who took harsh actions against Palestinians, who responded with more terrorism, and so on.
Finally, on July 3, John M. Reich, director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, notified Mr. Killinger that they would take harsher action than the bank had wanted, by requiring the bank to sign a memorandum of understanding.
India's police force and judicial system have been under pressure to take harsher action in cases involving violence against women, since last year's gang-rape and murder of an Indian student in Delhi.
"Our preferred engagement process is engagement," McNally said, somewhat inscrutably, meaning they want to have conversations about this stuff ― rather than take harsher action.
(And, as Joe Nocera pointed out in the Times, it has taken harsh action over infractions that are far more minor).
The British government's deep fears that Libya would take "harsh and immediate" action against UK interests if the convicted Lockerbie bomber died in a Scottish prison are revealed in secret US embassy cables which show London's full support for the early release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
The British government's deep fears that Libya would take "harsh and immediate" action against UK interests if the convicted Lockerbie bomber died in a Scottish prison are revealed in secret US embassy cables that show London's full support for the early release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
Competitors of Google called for the agency to use the additional time to take harsher legal action against Google.
