1.   The incident played into the hands of advocates of harsher measures of control.

2.   The incident also appeared to provide a pretext for the government to institute harsher measures against the student demonstrators.

3.   An even harsher measure easily passed the House last month, but opponents of the Helms measure say it faces much tougher prospects for passage in the Senate.

4.   Council members were regretful that their more modest fishing limits over the past three years had not stopped the crash of the cod population, forcing harsher measures.

5.   He declared it preferable to the harsher measure enacted by the House, which would deny additional benefits to women on welfare and to unwed teenagers who have children.

6.   It pits a frayed tradition of hospitality against louder voices demanding harsher measures to bar access to all but genuine asylum seekers.

7.   It raised the likelihood of harsher German measures against Kurdish militants living in Germany.

8.   Japan has refrained from outlawing the cult or taking harsher measures because of its strong belief in religious freedom.

9.   So harsher measures will be proposed.