Sentence examples for took harsh from inspiring English sources

James immediately took harsh measures to break the power of the Scottish nobility.

Theodoric mistrusted the rapprochement, and his hostility flared when Justin took harsh measures against the heretical Arian sect in the Byzantine Empire.

In the aftermath of the Commune, the government took harsh repressive action: about 38,000 were arrested and more than 7,000 were deported.

Arab terrorism built support for right-wing Israeli politicians, who took harsh actions against Palestinians, who responded with more terrorism, and so on.

His notoriety increased in 1990 when he was appointed Iraq's chief administrator in Kuwait and took harsh measures against resisters in the months before the Persian Gulf war.

Partly as a consequence, distributors and exhibitors took harsh liberties: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cut it down to around 70 minutes for the American release, a butchering that seemed to encourage bad reviews.

It also took harsher punishments, many of them horrifying to modern sensibilities.

Its main opponents, Israel and the United States, have taken harsh steps already.

They have also taken harsh measures against the Arabs — not without reason, they say.

"Also, it's an emotional occasion when police cannot take harsh measures to push back the crowd".

Then the military, with the claim of suppressing anarchy, would take harsh action, often with the public's approval.