Word: harshness
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Considering the evidence, harsh sentences had been expected. The commander of the group and one other soldier received the maximum penalty, 20 years, while a Scorpion who had confessed got 13 years. The man taped mocking the boy got only five years because the court found that he didn't pull the trigger himself. Most disappointing, the judge seemed eager to absolve the Serbian government and, to some extent, the accused. She called the Scorpions an "irregular volunteer unit," insisted they had no relationship with any branch of government in Serbia, and said there was no evidence that the deceased...
...hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui says in a harsh monotone, in an excerpt shown on NBC Nightly News. "But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash...
...already lost some Republican allies, such as anyone running for President, and he can't count on conservative Democrats going along with anything that even whispers of amnesty for illegal workers. Meanwhile, liberals deplore his harsh approach, with its $10,000 fines and $3,500 fees for temporary work visas. Thousands of protesters threaded through the streets of L.A. carrying signs saying LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, DON'T DEPORT HIM. Their champion, Senator Edward Kennedy, whom Bush will need in his corner to get anything passed, is still fuming after the March raid of a Massachusetts factory, in which agents swept...
Though met with cold and rain, the speakers made clear that the harsh conditions would not put a damper on their efforts...
...double standards. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd published a book in 2005 entitled, “Are Men Necessary?”, in which she muses over whether or not women should bother making time for men in their lives at all. Though the book did receive some harsh criticism (and I imagine Dowd’s been on fewer dates since its publication), I somehow doubt a book entitled, “Are Women Necessary?”, would be the bestseller that Dowd’s book was. No, such a book would surely be condemned...