Many Tories, who sense a liberal-left slant at the BBC, want a tougher line.
And would he like the Chinese to take a tougher line with Pyongyang?
In Italy, by contrast, the centre-left has been forced to take a tougher line over Islam by the xenophobic right.
Chastened, he promised to take a tougher line on this year's budget.
Although Mr Geithner did not commit himself to any specific action, the use of the m-word suggests Team Obama will take a tougher line.
But, in practice, since new drink-driving laws came into force in Japan last June, courts are taking a tougher line with passengers as well as drivers.
With respect to the issue of taking a tougher line, I think President Abbas and I spent most of our time discussing how do we solve the problem.
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You could argue that what has been described as gaffes is in fact plain-speaking that fit well with his general narrative of taking a tougher line than Obama.
Canada's foreign minister - who backed Mr Netanyahu's call for a tougher line on Hezbollah - later confirmed a dual national Canadian-Lebanese was involved in the attack, and was believed to remain at large.
Instead, Tony Blair seems to have become more hostile to it either because he is accused in Britain of sacrificing the Thatcher money or, as France's Jacques Chirac suggested this week, because his chancellor, Gordon Brown, has insisted on a tougher line.
So the underlying suggestion will be that those defectors are not simply demanding a tougher line on Europe - which he claims he is already offering - but that they have a secret agenda to pull Britain out of the EU altogether.
Mr Danto took a tougher, more interesting line.
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Rights groups have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is serving his final year in office, to take a tougher stand against hard-line Muslim groups fomenting religious conflict in several parts of the country.
And I take a line on drugs that says that we should be tougher on them.
The market is likely to get tougher, even for companies with a tight focus on the bottom line.
All are following a similar line -- check before you fly, turn up early, expect tougher security and skimp on the hand luggage.
It's a concern shared by many investors, who have been bailing out of Apple's stock amid tougher competition for the iPhone and the iPad and the lack of a new product line since Tim Cook became the company's CEO shortly before Jobs' death.
If the economy takes a turn for the worse then banks will have an even tougher time showing improvement on the top line.
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"In the UK we are at a juncture where a minister is calling for something tougher than what the original Digital Britain report laid out, but is certainly more in line with what many of the public we suspect always believed the report meant, " he added.
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