Sentence examples for a tougher statement from inspiring English sources

Afterward, his aides distributed a tougher statement strongly attacking the Clinton administration for appointing Bradley Smith to the Federal Election Commission.

The United States has worked to get North Korea back to the negotiating table, even as it has tried unsuccessfully to win a tougher statement from the Security Council in response to the April 5 missile launching.

Yet as Osborne warms up for a tough statement this week, businesses are still warning that not much is happening on the ground.

He also joined with Democratic representatives Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Jay Inslee of Washington – two other leaders of this emerging majority within the caucus – to author a tough statement of principles for climate legislation.

The central bank signaled its resolve in a tough statement that accompanied its move to raise the federal funds rate on overnight loans between banks by 50 basis points, to 6.5percentt.

"We'll get a tough statement coming frrm the Fed," he says, pointing out that inversion of the yield and the Fed funds futures rates are telling signs that the market is expecting rates to be raised this year.

The United States should be urging China to exercise that influence — and reminding it that when it blocked a tougher Security Council statement (and watered down earlier sanctions on North Korea's nuclear program), it took responsibility for reining in the North.

Even in his tougher statement yesterday about the danger of nukes in the arsenal of the leading supporter of terrorism -- "we will not tolerate construction of a nuclear weapon" -- Bush's pronoun "we" referred to consensus of "the international community".

Like Candi Staton, she started out with funk-filled tales of cheatin' men, such as Only a Fool; and when Whitney Houston needed a diamond-tough statement after her 'lost' years, she effectively covered Holloway's We're Getting Stronger with Million Dollar Bill.

For example, on the North Korea issue the Chinese government has released a really tough statement.

But mostly those on Wall Street object to what they describe as the Fed's failure to accompany each cut with a tough, blunt statement on the dangers ahead — embracing language that implicitly promises more interest rate cuts, and soon, to right the economy.