Dancing with verve, she made her steps sharp but never harsh.

Then he turned as harsh steps sounded in the small nave.

"It's a harsh and unnecessary step to seek this money back from a person who really can't afford it," he said.

I had to take harsh steps, summon whippers, before the Maidens would listen to me.

To his critics, those uncharacteristically harsh steps looked like a last-ditch effort to appear as a tough man of action.

Her uncle would have taken harsh steps had he been so disobeyed.

Thanks to your antics, I've had to take harsh steps to solve this insurgency problem.

But he said the authority should understand from Israel's tone that it must take whatever harsh steps are needed to dismantle extremist organizations.

In China, hard-liners may want to put the pilot of our plane on trial or take other harsh steps.

We hope you'll bear that in mind and not force us to harsher steps.