Word: harshness
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...pushing aside fuzzy feelings is one thing—being harsh is another altogether...
...some - particularly Uzbeks and Chechens - are said to have married into local families. In the eyes of the tribesmen, for government troops to go in and destroy the houses and force the families off ancestral land is a big no-no. What we're seeing is that because of harsh government action, a lot of tribesmen who couldn't care less about giving sanctuary to Zawahiri or anyone else are feeling that their honor is now at stake, and that they have to defend...
Well, perhaps “failed” is too harsh of a word. Like many of you out there, I had my moments of athletic glory in high school. I dabbled in multiple sports and spent two years starting for the varsity lacrosse team. Athletics gave me highs, it gave me lows and it basically dominated my non-academic life...
...speech before a subgroup of the Synod of Bishops, Glendon said that “in today’s harsh economic climate, it is often the church and only the church that lifts up the principles of the priority of human values over economic values, of persons over things...
...abandoning” the country shortly after Aristide was reinstalled with the help of 20,000 U.S. Marines. But in truth, the Haitian people were never left alone. While supporting Haiti’s political system, the Clinton administration undermined its economic sovereignty by compelling Aristide to adopt a harsh neo-liberal economic program prior to his return. This program included lowering tariffs on grain and meat imports, so that highly subsidized American exports could be dumped on the Haitian market, undercutting rural agriculture and new industries...