11.   It is a harsh sentence, but this is not the first century in which the power of individual languages atrophied.

12.   It was an extraordinarily harsh sentence that would break most men, but not Pomeroy.

13.   It was too harsh a sentence, they said, for a man who played such a minor role.

14.   Leaving none produces equally harsh sentences for situations and individuals that demand different treatment.

15.   Powell also said that if her own husband had been shot dead, she would want a harsh sentence for his killer.

16.   Prosecutors had pressed for the maximum sentence against Tucker, in hopes that a harsh sentence would encourage him and his two co-defendants to cooperate.

17.   Prosecutors say it is tough to get convictions, let alone harsh sentences in cases involving the deaths of children.

18.   She insists that in all her research she has not found that women who commit violent crimes receive sentences less harsh than men.

19.   Some scholars have speculated that the harsh sentence was imposed in the expectation that it would be overturned higher up in the chain of command.

20.   Smith had just pardoned me from a harsh genetic sentence shared by all three of my living siblings.