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Example sentences for: harsh

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Bill McCollum arguing that impeachment is not obviously too harsh for what the President did.
He does not dismiss the latter, recognizing the originality and strength of Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lisitski, and their colleagues, but he wants us to pay attention to those other artists, many more in number, who do not fall seamlessly into the Modernist continuum but who often had to pay as harsh a price for their independence as their better-known avant-garde counterparts.
The paper notes that any negotiations might be complicated by prior U.S. complaints about the Taliban's harsh treatment of women and its involvement in drug trafficking, but goes on to note that the timing may be right, since Afghanistan's rulers are desperate for international recognition and aid.
Paul Starr, a sociology professor at Princeton who was once a harsh critic of the New Democrats, writes that "the party won't fly without both of its wings."
Confronted with a violent Islamist movement that killed President Anwar Sadat in 1981, the Egyptian government combined harsh repression of Islamic militants with harassment of moderate Islamic scholars and authors, driving many into exile.