Cottard, the SSPX priest responsible for the children, had subjected them to a harsh disciplinary regimen, forcing them to spend the night before their deaths sleeping on a pebbled beach.

Ms. Davis, 44, spent more than two years following three jockeys in an effort to illuminate the difficult conditions of their profession, especially the harsh regimens they put themselves through to stay thin.

Her father-in-law tells her she has taken on too harsh a regimen, but Savitri replies that she has taken an oath to perform these austerities, at which Dyumatsena offers his support.

He enforced a harsh regimen of plantation labor, described by the historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot as caporalisme agraire (agrarian militarism).

Instead, Steele instituted a harsh regimen of physical conditioning-he led the brigade on eight-mile runs-and incessant practicing at the rifle range.

This is a harsh regimen to impose on devotees, let alone any newcomer.

A harsh regimen of exercise and diet was enforced.

The harsh regimen takes its toll.

He was also subjected, by his father, to a harsh and Spartan regimen, living with a daily consciousness of hell-fire and eternal damnation.

Mr. Poklemba said the proposal was similar to the state's shock incarceration program, in which selected inmates who undergo a harsh disciplinary regimen are considered for early parole.