Sentence examples for early tough from inspiring English sources

And it's another early tough matchup for Williams, who faced (unseeded) Azarenka in the first round in Madrid, and world No3 Simona Halep in the third round in Rome.

Two months before the election he raised the spectre of a Tory government announcing "in that sort of macho way" that it would have to slash public spending because of the need to take "early, tough action".

Having respect for one another first and foremost will help guide you through these early tough conversations and any differences of opinion.

This year's GCSE results have seen a record fall in the proportion of pupils getting C grades or higher, triggered by a sharp rise in the number of students aged 15 or younger taking the exam early, tougher science papers and more pupils taking subjects multiple times.

After a three-month review, the Bush administration moderated an earlier tough posture and said it would restart talks on a range of security issues with North Korea.

Administration officials said in advance that they did not plan to hector Mr. Karzai about corruption during this visit, concluding that their earlier "tough love" approach had only made him resentful.

The need for a coach is a little clearer on "VH1 Tough Love Couples," which arrives Monday night and features a familiar face (at least to VH1 regulars): Steve Ward, the proprietor of earlier "Tough Love" series in which he has advised and browbeaten some not very appealing women to make them date-worthy.

It begins – where else? – on the streets of 1950s New York or, to be precise, the crowded sidewalks between midtown and Central Park, which give off the aura of a city still stuck in an earlier, tougher time.

There have been fears in some quarters that it might be backtracking on some of its earlier tougher proposals such as a safeguard tariff with a maximum upper limit amid opposition from the industry.

To know that I personally gave that game away early is tough to live with".

Some think of Kennan as a hawk because of his early and tough call for resistance to Soviet expansionism.