Many voters felt that Dole's criticism was unfairly harsh and that his dispassionate delivery made him seem cold.

Have you ever been a refugee, orphan or subject of an unfairly harsh poll?

But two county legislators, both of them black, have said publicly that Mr. Carter was being subjected to unfairly harsh scrutiny because of his race.

But in the past he has argued that his financial deals have been under unfairly harsh scrutiny from the news media and investigators.

Most Italians say the decrease in accidents is a good sign, but some say the law is unfairly harsh.

In a way, though he recognized he was being unfairly harsh to Abulurd, he considered Faykan his only remaining son.

For the most part, the diplomatic result was unfairly harsh to Israel.

Thomas Ambrosio, a lawyer in Bloomfield who has represented defendants in money-laundering cases, said the guidelines would strip judges of their discretion and, in some cases, force them to hand down unfairly harsh sentences.

Prosecutors look at individual cases and, not surprising, tend to focus on the inmates they believe are major criminals, and tend to discount the number of low-level offenders who received unfairly harsh sentences.

Timberlake also told MTV that he "probably got 10 percent of the blame", later explaining that "America's harsher on women" and "unfairly harsh on ethnic people", referring to the backlash suffered by him and Jackson.