It was extremely bad and very tough clashes took place, she said.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Either there will be nobody there or more likely there will be not a very big population, and it's not very tough, and they could be easily brushed aside.

所以要么那个地方没有人烟,要么就是人口稀少的部落,并不是很顽强,很容易就能被军队驱逐

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so right now, it's very tough.

所以就目前来看，这是很艰难的。

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This is a very tough economy, still,for huge numbers of American businesses,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

and it was a very very tough period.

那段时间真是异常艰辛。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

So you are going to have a very, very tough fight."

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

For all of his tough talk, Hobbes takes justice and the rule of law very seriously, far more seriously than, for example, does Machiavelli.

在他那些强硬的措辞中可看出,霍布斯对正义和法律的态度，始终是极为严谨的，比马基雅维利的态度要严谨得多。

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"We are surrounded by countries with very tough laws, while we are very weak, so it is not surprising while many terrorists from other countries found their hotbed in Indonesia,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

And that will be a very tough battle." As in many countries, America's elected officials are loathe to raise taxes or cut spending, particularly when the economy is weak and millions are out of work.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

It's really been in the wake of the al-Mabhouh thing that the talk has really translated into concrete action and some of these governments have really started to get very tough on RIM, the company behind BlackBerry.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Those were really tough tours. They were kept out very often for up to three months, under some pretty grueling conditions.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

North Korea, whose economy is in tatters and is facing tough international sanctions is participating in the World Expo for the very first time.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

So it's a very,very competitive, tough market."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22