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词汇 example_english_harsh-measure
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harsh measure

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meanings of harshand measure


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harsh
adjective
uk /hɑːʃ/ us /hɑːrʃ/
unpleasant, unkind, cruel, or more severe than ...
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measure
noun
uk /ˈmeʒ.ər/ us /ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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Examples of harsh measure


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This would seem rather a harshmeasure to take.
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It is a pity surely that a great country like ours should be concerned in passing this harshmeasure against women of that character.
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He did not produce any evidence that this is a harshmeasure.
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That is surely a very harshmeasure as regards agriculturists.
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To perpetuate that disadvantage into their years of retirement seems to me to be a very harshmeasure to take.
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To do that without giving people the right to have anything to live on in the interim can be a very harshmeasure indeed.
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They see that he made a mistake, that he was perhaps careless, but that to send him to prison would be a very harshmeasure in reference to that individual.
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This was a very harshmeasure against rural clergy who often depended on small gardens and farms for their survival.
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The arithmetic was sufficiently unfavourable, even in the short term, that harsh measures were required.
The detection of disease was often followed by harsh measures.
The only way it became possible to avert failure was to be willing to enforce harsh measures and to tolerate a broader level of immiseration.
I think we can indeed get acceptance by bringing in three additional lines of general policy to make harsh measures seen to be just.
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Why do we need them without any further evidence of any sufficient mischief to justify such harsh measures?
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No one will want to take harsh measures, but to go through the complicated process known as reference will mean months of delay.
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As a result, we have had to propose some very harsh measures indeed.
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I complained of the harsh measures we meted out to the small tobacconists in our area.
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We do not intend to be deflected from the difficult and harsh measures that are necessary.
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In the defence of the £ very harsh measures have had to be taken.
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I think that is rather harsh measures to deal out.
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Unfortunately it has been picked up by a number of people who clamour for devaluation because they believe that it is a way of avoiding other harsh measures.
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