11.  Students, mainly Christian, have demonstrated on the streets of Beirut, sometimes drawing a harsh response from the police.

12.  That comment later drew a harsh response from prosecutor Walter J. Shea.

13.  The action incited a harsh response from US Representative Robert Wexler, a Democrat who represents Broward and Palm Beach counties in Congress.

14.  The harsh response from liberals and black leaders devastated Moynihan, who for years was branded by some as a racist, a charge Hodgson painstakingly rejects.

15.  The letter elicited a harsh response from Romer, who called it preposterous and accused the district attorney of grandstanding.

16.  The sniper attack, in which a gunman fired four bullets at a bus, provoked a harsh response from NATO officials.

17.  They also said the harsh response by police and the army to the hundreds of demonstrators who spilled into the streets over the weekend was unconscionable.

18.  When one of the interviewers approaches a local minister to talk about the case, his harsh response has a stark honesty.

19.  With each successive attack Israelis increase calls for harsh responses.

20.  Police accuse the rebels of launching repeated attacks in recent weeks to try to provoke a harsh response that could prompt world leaders to order military attacks.