The violence has also become crueler.

On Twitter, the reactions are more fierce.

Or he can let history judge him even more harshly.

And Chinese intellectuals face the cruelest reality harsh suppression and a popular audience devoted to mammon and materialism.

But the downturn will be a more severe test for the euro than any that it faced during its first ten years.

The environmental challenge is even more stark in developing countries, where five billion of the earth's six billion people live.

Since the beginning of this year, repression of human rights activists, lawyers, and bloggers has been harsher than ever.

However, on 5 July, the Nigerian government dropped the ban after FIFA threatened to impose harsher international sanctions as a result of the government interference.

Russia, of course, helped Iran kick off its nuclear program, and has often defended the Iranian regime from stiffer United Nations sanctions.

The aftermath of the civil war in the Republic, the painful transition to market relations, the economic difficulties and, as a result, the dramatic worsening of the socio economic living conditions after 1991 left the women of the Republic of Tajikistan in harsher conditions than its men.

She argued that because there were fewer facilities for female prisoners, women frequently were incarcerated further from home and more frequently in more severe conditions.

Under these circumstances, crises could be even greater, and the adjustments harsher as occurred under the last world currency, the gold standard.

The Cruelty of Chance

Insurance companies have not penetrated many of the regions that suffered the greatest losses.

Compared with the two previous breakthroughs in reforming China s economy, in 1978 and 1992, Xi faces a different environment and a much tougher challenge.

Things can come unstuck when one is forced to operate weapons in regions environments that are more severe than the weapons have been designed and tested for.

With US forces in Iraq now funding both Sunni and Shia tribal leaders in an effort to stabilize the country, conditions for women grow deadlier by the day.

This was not forgiven, and was judged more severely than the shortcomings of his presidential record, which was not significantly worse than that of his predecessors.

We will take the harshest of measures in order that all Filipino interests inside and outside the Philippines will be subject to destruction....Our measures will include assassinating prominent figures, foremost among them the Filipino President (RAMOS)....We also have the ability to use chemicals and poisonous gas against vital institutions, residential populations, and drinking water sources...

All respondents believed that, based on their experiences, the challenges to individual UNMOs were becoming more demanding and the threats to their security and personal safety were increasing.

Another is the ruthlessness of the regime.

Unless and until widespread family planning and modern contraceptive services are established, expanding populations in the Horn of Africa will crash against a harsher future climate.

It was a moment of truth, a cleansing from within of the brutality of Stalinism.

In part, this reflected the new regime s cruelty.

So the resource curse has hit Russia with a vengeance.

The EU will be tough on terrorism.

This is a deliberate, cruelly organised crime.

None of these risks implies that the monetary union will inevitably be a victim of this severe economic downturn. But the downturn will be a more severe test for the euro than any that it faced during its first ten years.

At TEDxUSC, Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments.

The financial stringencies of the Great Depression put a definitive end to the Policy.

But the alternative could be worse a populist backlash that destroys much of what Mexico has achieved over the last two decades.

Israelis believe that Iran is galloping into the nuclear club, and will shrewdly use the prospect of talks with the US to pre empt tougher sanctions or a military strike.

Unfortunately, the cruelty of chance also lies at the heart of the centuries of mistrust between Poland and Russia.

Young democracies can be cruel their voters are often as unforgiving as political opponents.

It was also a testament to the cruelty of Morocco in its brutal occupation of Western Sahara.

The witness emphasized the cruelty of the method used to demolish these homes.

Following the Times Square bombing attempt, Clinton issued an even harsher judgment if a terror attack like the New York bombing were to be successful and found to have originated from that country, there would be very severe consequences.

The United States, for example, cruelly allows its poorest children to suffer.

In the Great Depression, bank collapses made the downturn far worse.

If necessary, China should beat them, we need to be tougher.

NEW YORK Even the most cold hearted realists would agree that the failure of Communist censorship played a role in the collapse of the Iron Curtain Voice of America, the fax machine, rock n roll, and the lure of Western capitalism helped to win over the people of the Soviet Bloc.

In his new life as a non politician, Thaksin can tell many of his business and political friends to chart a new course for Thailand, one that would help the country become a near tiger. Or he can let history judge him even more harshly.

But, according to Yakubov, Only thanks to torture, hundreds and thousands of people admit that they are guilty of religious extremism and terrorism.

I speak as someone who as a child witnessed and still remembers the most extreme cruelties.

But the real danger which even Hollande s sternest critics may be underestimating is not so much his individual policy failings (serious though they may be) as his approach to the twin challenges posed by France s economic imbalances and the eurozone crisis.