Times were hard.

The Mediterranean Crucible

A number of countries have strict laws against drugs.

CAMBRIDGE Times are tough for the world's poorest countries.

Conditions in Gaza are harsh and the population does suffer.

A recourse for those who had it roughest

Its severe punishments fly in the face of Western legal canons.

Third, more severe climate shocks may lie ahead.

But the harsh reactions to the BIS s analysis seem misplaced and unfair.

Sentences for non Han Chinese are typically longer than those imposed on Han Chinese.

It is the world's most strict regime for the packaging of tobacco.

They go on a rally wordless stand, smoke and nibble sunflower seeds.

In July and August, the lake's average surface temperature is , in Winter it rarely freezes over.

But I doubt whether anything tougher than strongly worded communiqués will ever be employed.

Akan tetapi kedua bentuk pertahanan ini lemah, mengingat buruknya kenyataan yang dihadapi akibat kondisi perekonomian Yunani.

Legend has it that the powerful demon Mahisasura once placated the gods through severe penances.

The main terrain of the city is generally flat and low lyling, with an average elevation of around .

Against this tough economic backdrop, authorities have cracked down time and again on street beer sales.

AiF s staff writer understood, right then and there, how exceptionally high living standards and unbelievably harsh laws go together in Singapore.

Just in March of this year, the Chinese government cracked down on women's rights activists.

Barking Alsatian dogs, stern guards, and waiters dressed in inmate uniforms work hard to recreate the gulag s sinister atmosphere.

Such sombre descriptions can hardly convince anyone to pack a suitcase and come to vacation in Ukraine.

According to an image image shared widely across English language social media over the past few weeks, Japan enforces strict laws on Muslims

Heavy rains and harsh winds punish it violently. It gets worse the farther they get.

Though it is not often the case that severely repressive regimes go of their own volition or through a negotiated transfer of power, it does happen.

Even if Europe became a police state, migrants could get through documents can be forged or stolen, visas overstayed, people smuggled, officials bribed. While draconian policies can curb migration somewhat, they mostly drive it underground.

While draconian policies can curb migration somewhat, they mostly drive it underground.

Tough women Soccer star Hope Solo, left, and Dexter actress Jennifer Carpenter, right, have similar face shapes and eyes

2. Each State Party may adopt more strict or severe measures than those provided for by this Convention for preventing and combating corruption.

It seizes opportunities while confronting and dealing with harsh realities, whether these are lack of education, landlessness, or AIDS.

Despite the bleak surroundings, residents from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Palestine, Iraq, Libya, Algeria, Mali and elsewhere attempt to create community and spaces of welcome.

Brought into the country by book smugglers despite the threat of stiff prison sentences, they helped fuel a growing nationalist sentiment that finally led to the lifting of the ban in 1904.

Ducasse considered that this was because life in it is painted in too harsh colors (letter to the banker Darasse from 12 March 1870).

Time magazine recently reported that Extreme action sometimes has to be taken, and Wales locked the entries on Kerry and Bush for most of 2004.

3. Each State Party may adopt more strict or severe measures than those provided for by this Convention for preventing and combating transnational organized crime.

When harsh war sanctions befell Montenegro, Djukanovic s solution for rescuing the country s exchequer was to facilitate an international cigarette smuggling ring, in collaboration with the Italian mafia.

Ahwazi Arabs activists are commonly accused of secession and being threats to national security, a charge that usually carries the death penalty or a very harsh prison sentence.

Imposing severe restrictions on the growth of their emissions growth would impede their GDP growth and severely curtail their ability to climb out of poverty.

Newly emboldened, the government pledged to crackdown on groups that engage in violence, and announced plans to empower authorities to disband organizations that threaten security and order.

Some Italians responded violently some Italian and Romanian politicians, eager to offer quick and tough solutions, made scandalous statements that echoed the xenophobic and totalitarian slogans of the past.

On the other hand, the regime is carrying out a massive crackdown on those accused (rightfully or wrongly) of colluding with the enemy.

Makarenko went on to suggest that an anti corruption crackdown will begin in the spring, after the Olympics in Sochi, and Khodorkovsky s release is a message to future prisoners that Putin is willing to negotiate.

Dylan s Nobel chances are often treated as a joke it s assumed that the austere guardians of the universal literary fame would never unbend far enough to award the Prize to a song writer.

Harsh new domestic laws in many countries have not only failed to control the spread of drugs throughout the world, but have delivered a vast new source of state intrusiveness into the lives of millions of people. Prohibition created a pretext for authoritarian regimes to resist the abolition of death penalty yet even states that execute people for drug related crimes have not been able to stem the tide.

Harsh new domestic laws in many countries have not only failed to control the spread of drugs throughout the world, but have delivered a vast new source of state intrusiveness into the lives of millions of people.