1.   In addition to their harsh sentences, the prisoners have been exposed to deplorable prison conditions.

2.   Judges are meting out harsh sentences for car theft.

3.   Achahui, who stood next to Ms. Berenson at the closed reading of her sentence Thursday, said she was suprised by the harsh sentence.

4.   By any rational test the war on drugs, with its use of the criminal law and harsh sentences to solve the problem, is a costly failure.

5.   By pleading guilty, Lopez Ramos hopes to draw a less harsh sentence.

6.   Despite the strong American condemnation, administration officials indicated that efforts to persuade Iraq to ease the harsh sentence would be conducted discreetly.

7.   Especially harsh sentences were handed out to three members of the evangelical South China Church, a Christian sect banned by authorities under an anti-cult law.

8.   Feitell said he was outraged by the harsh sentence, calling it unconstitutional, and said it deprived Felipe of his right to appeal.

9.   He has argued that his son, a first-time offender, did not deserve such a harsh sentence.

10.   I think America is coming down harder on most violent criminals, a fact reflected in increasingly harsh sentences.