Sentence examples for appropriately tough from inspiring English sources

"It's a day of reckoning for the unions, and he negotiated an appropriately tough deal with them," Mr. McMahon said.

This has long raised questions about whether the organization is appropriately tough on the companies it certifies.

Adam Liptak's appropriately tough review of Sandra Day O'Connor's "Out of Order" (March 31) is actually too easy on the former justice on one count.

As inspections resumed yesterday after four years, the two men leading the effort, Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, have adopted an appropriately tough tone.

The Obama administration laid down an appropriately tough line in late July when it released preliminary rules for the $4.3 billion pot of money known as the Race to the Top Fund.

And so we see our politicians once again worrying in public about the Internet and even hankering for greater powers to intercept everyone's digital communications — taking a 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' approach in order to appear appropriately tough in the wake of last week's horrifying slaughter in Paris.

But it's appropriately tough-minded and darkly funny, and it makes its central points with gusto.

But it's appropriately tough-minded and darkly funny, and the production makes its central points (which, refreshingly, are also the play's) with gusto.

President Obama, Secretary Clinton and others in the administration have wisely changed the U.S.'s tone, taking an appropriately tougher stance on Israel.

Back home, Wolverine marketers convened 15 designers, product managers, engineers and quality controllers to discuss the idea of a shoe that would appropriately express one tough piece of machinery.

In his State of the Union address, the president appropriately demanded stricter accounting standards and tougher disclosure requirements.