There have been signs of differences in the Bush administration over how tough a stance to take.
It's almost as tough a way to make a buck as being a 19th-century craftsman with a hand-doweling jig.
Applying a tough sensibility to a tough assignment revitalized an amorphous status quo.
But too tough a line may well escalate the dispute and spark bitterness and resentment amongst other public sector workers and store up trouble for the future.
We are going through as tough a time as we have gone through in my lifetime, and -- looking around -- in most of your lifetimes.
Given Hackney's concentration of lone parents, unemployed people and immigrants, administering benefits in the borough is about as tough a task as the public sector has to offer.
Now comes just as tough a test round Turnberry's wonderful Ailsa Course, an Open experience for some reason kept from players and public alike for the past 15 years.
"I think it was a tough match, a tough battle, and there were a lot of games that went to deuce and a lot of long games, " Sharapova told reporters.
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The former England captain Martin Johnson also spokes about England's 2007 World Cup pairing with South Africa, saying it was as tough a draw as the World Cup holders could have faced.
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And as we reflect back over the last three years, as tough a three years as this country has seen in a very long time, we understand that we've still got a lot of work to do.
But, you know, the fact of the matter is, is that we have had as tough a year and a half as America has seen in a couple of generations, and that's meant that Congress has had to do more on a whole range of issues.
We've come through a tough year and a tough decade, but that fundamental decency, that sense of determination, that grit, that willingness to work hard in pursuit of a good idea, the determination to do what's right -- that's been at the core of the American experience.
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"Today has been a very tough day for law enforcement officers involved, it's been a very tough day for victims and their families, it's been a very tough day for the suspect's family, " Sisson said before reading a prepared statement at a Friday night news conference.
If you know you're selling at a tough time, it can be a tough call, but you might have to drop that price a little.
The next night, it's just a tough one, and a tough locker room to be around.
As in: when men take a tough position they employ a tough tone in order to be credible.
We have come through a tough year, and a tough decade.
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"I'm really pleased with that, to come away with victory in a tough environment and with a tough crowd, " said Devonian Tancock, who defended the title he won in 2006.
Ironically, and an unintended byproduct of helping their former employees and showing that even in a tough moment a company can be caring an compassionate, would build loyalty among their staff.
As a medical professional, I think it's a great thing, as highlighting the problems with obesity and showing - especially as like kind of a tough guy - that it's OK as a tough guy to do something to take care of your weight and to take care of your family, I think that's a great message.
"It was a little cold, a little tough getting a grip on the ball, but I have to get used to it, " Harvey said on a day when temperatures hovered in the upper 50s and low 60s.
In Rhode Island, Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffey faces a tough battle with a conservative challenger.
Ok, I grant that Bromwich has a tough job rebuilding a broken regulatory agency.
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Without connecting traffic to keep planes full, a carrier has a tough go making a profit.
Celebrity judge Ruby Wax said it was a tough decision but a stand-out winner emerged.
"He had a tough time with a really bad injury and people forget that, " Arteta told BBC Radio Merseyside.
Could it in fact be something that helps smooth over a tough situation with a foreign country?
"It was a tough year on a lot of businesses, especially ma and pa types, " she says.
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