21.   Military experts said it had been built to inflict harsh punishment on terrorists and to discourage people from joining terrorist groups.

22.   Negotiations on a possible surrender in Kunduz have been going on for five days, as Dawood promised clemency to local commanders and harsh punishment for their foreign-born counterparts.

23.   Nor is it a secret that the policy of harsh punishment does not work.

24.   Public housing residents and tenant rights advocates here and throughout the country say the decision is a harsh punishment for poor and elderly residents.

25.   Setting up a system to put teenage offenders on notice that they face increasingly harsh punishment if they mess up again.

26.   Some criminal defense attorneys claim the sign is an unnecessarily harsh punishment.

27.   Singapore says its tough police methods and harsh punishments are responsible for its social order and one of the highest material standards of living in Asia.

28.   Some investors say Nomura may be able to avoid harsh punishment.

29.   That law allows harsh punishment for enterprises that have a continuing pattern of criminal conduct.

30.   The law is meant to impose harsh punishment for violence specifically committed out of prejudice against others because of their race, color, religion or national origin.