harsh measure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofharshandmeasure
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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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(Definition ofharshandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This would seem rather aharshmeasureto take.
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It is a pity surely that a great country like ours should be concerned in passing thisharshmeasureagainst women of that character.
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He did not produce any evidence that this is aharshmeasure.
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That is surely a veryharshmeasureas regards agriculturists.
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To perpetuate that disadvantage into their years of retirement seems to me to be a veryharshmeasureto 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 veryharshmeasureindeed.
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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 veryharshmeasurein reference to that individual.
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This was a veryharshmeasureagainst 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.
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The detection of disease was often followed by harsh measures.
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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.
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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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