Sentence examples for desperately tough from inspiring English sources

Australia secured a resounding 6-1 victoverover Zimbabwe in their final Olympic pool match and progressed to the knockout stages in the process, but not even that result has helped them avoid a desperately tough likely quarter-final clash with either host nation Brazil or world No1 USA after rivals Germany secured a better goal difference on a dramatic day of football in Rio.

It's desperately hard and desperately beautiful.

Albany desperately needs tougher rules to end the pay-to-play culture and deep-rooted corruption.

At 16 and 17, I wanted desperately to be tough.

Well might the former Australia captain Ian Chappell write on Cricinfo that the team "desperately needs a tough encounter before the quarterfinal".

But Ehud Olmert and Amir Peretz, respectively the prime minister and defence minister, leaders of rival parties in Israel's fragile governing coalition, desperately need to look tough.

Particularly, in the kind of "war" we are now fighting, what we desperately need is a tough, aggressive, small and flexible intelligence organization which can go after the terrorists who wish us harm.

Deception in High Places (Pluto Press) by Nicholas Gilby, who led a CAAT campaign to expose corruption in Britain's arms deals with Saudi Arabia, also reveals how British ministers and officials desperately tried to water down tough international anti-bribery and corruption rules being pushed by the US, notably after the scandal involving Lockheed broke in the 1970s.

Nawaz, it is hoped, has a mandate to make the tough decisions the country desperately needs.

They look desperately weary – a combination of a tough schedule, injuries and suspensions have dogged them throughout the year and shows no signs of letting up.

Firstly, anyone who utters such a preposterous phrase is exactly the type of person who calls people 'guys.' The 'Man Up!' mob have probably never had a fight in their lives, yet desperately want to be seen as tough.