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be toughened
verb
To make tough.
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Modern-languages exams will be toughened up.
And rules regarding absenteeism will be toughened.
The home secretary has suggested that censorship be toughened up too.
Mr. Olmert also called for international sanctions against Iran to be toughened.
Monday's report recommends the law be toughened against men who have sex with a prostitute aged under 18.
Laws on the transportation and release of hogs should be toughened so that the penalties reflect the damage done.
If the accounting oversight board's standards are so vague as to be unenforceable, they need to be toughened.
On July 10th, the Union's foreign ministers argued over whether policy towards Serbia should be toughened or slackened.
It is also crucial that anti-discrimination laws should be toughened and enforced instead of being ignored.
Advisers spoke to clients roughly, without a shred of civility, as if we needed to be toughened up.
This policy will have to be toughened," said the chief executive of the Climate Institute, John Connor.
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