Sentence examples for a tough patch from inspiring English sources

By any measure, it is a tough patch.

HARTFORD is a tough patch for growing children.

Early this year, it was widely acknowledged that the economy was in for a tough patch.

"Traditionally, men's wear is the first category to head south in a tough patch.

Coughlin said, "What's the big deal about what he said?" Giants linebacker Michael Boley said: "We hit a tough patch.

And in those 10 days I was going through a tough patch in Indian Wells and Miami.

A political succession is inevitable in a country where the median age is barely 25.The challenge is to manage this change, and keep the gains coming, even as the economy goes through a tougher patch.

Noda et al. (2013a) conducted earthquake sequence simulations with a rate- and state-dependent friction law and modeled a large, tough patch (Patch L) with a small, fragile patch (Patch S) in it in order to realize the hierarchical asperity concept and to investigate the elementary process involving the interaction between the scales.

Frictional properties on a fault cannot be uniform, and one idealization would be a hierarchical asperity concept in which a large, tough patch (Patch L, radius R L and nucleation size R L c ) includes small, fragile patches (Patches S, radius R S and nucleation size R S c ), which is consistent with the scale-independent properties of earthquakes.

True, a football game cannot erase what has been a very tough patch for this image-conscious city.

The Cavaliers represented a bright spot in an otherwise tough patch on the schedule.