Leonidas was thus one of the few Spartan kings to have ever undergone the notoriously harsh training of Spartan youth.

Montreal is a notoriously harsh city in which to play (or coach) hockey.

And the plot ingeniously incorporates the Magdalen laundry, a notoriously harsh home for wayward girls.

Miles Davis, a notoriously harsh critic of fellow musicians, once said of Shaw: "Now there's a great trumpet player.

They too need to make arrests to prove themselves to their notoriously harsh station captain.

This proved a problem during Michigan's notoriously harsh winters, when ice build-up on the tracks inhibited conductivity.

Conditions at Peru's terrorism prisons are notoriously harsh.

Certainly not in the middle of the notoriously harsh Caucasian mountain winter, with its howling winds, subzero temperatures, and blinding snowstorms.

The living conditions in the trenches were notoriously harsh.

Life in the Yanamayo prison is notoriously harsh.