He was one of the first people seized under emergency powers after South Africa's extraordinarily harsh press censorship system took effect.

Archimandrite Gabriel was extraordinarily harsh to himself, but was too kind and gentle toward others.

Discipline in the Red Army was extraordinarily harsh and summary executions were common.

Bitter weather may have wiped out some Alaskan reindeer as temperatures and snow depths exceeded those of the extraordinarily harsh winter of 1963 to 1964.

In one, a federal judge, using extraordinarily harsh language, rejected the rules that the union and the Justice Department had developed to run next year's Teamsters election.

The Mauna Kea silversword evolved to survive extraordinarily harsh subalpine conditions where virtually no other plants could grow.

Fluorescent tubing shed a soulful, grainy and searching light and an extraordinarily harsh and unnatural voice was coming from a radio.

But the discipline that backed up that solitary duty was - even by the standards of the 1920s - extraordinarily harsh and pervasive.

Extraordinary Public Rebuke The public rebuke was extraordinarily harsh punishment of a visible and distinguished scientist.

Temperance Barrow arrived in Jamestown just before the winter of the Starving Time, an extraordinarily harsh winter which the majority of townspeople did not survive.