Instead, she agreed to a day-for-day ratio, calculating that 112 days of the nine-month period should be compensated for receiving unduly harsh treatment, the paper said.

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But if a security trades lower because market interest rates have risen or because of problems in the market itself, requiring an immediate write-down is unduly harsh, because capital is reduced by the same amount.

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That may seem an unduly harsh judgment.

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Mr Obama and the Israelis have talked up this week's meeting: the American president is acutely conscious, in the run-up to November's congressional elections, that he has been accused by the Republicans of being unduly harsh towards Israel.

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Former Lib Dem care services minister Paul Burstow said existing means-testing arrangements were unduly "harsh" and the changes would provide greater "fairness and predictability".

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