Sentence examples for generally tough from inspiring English sources

Football players are generally tough men, comfortable with aggression.

Or were these past few days just a brief reprieve from generally tough times?

Even if the costs of acting training are covered, the outlook for actors after university is generally tough unless they have a lot of luck, or splendid connections.

At Sigerson Morrison, on Prince Street, thong sandals and open-toe pumps are generally tough to keep in stock at this time of year.

Then there was the lightning-quick guard Debbie Black, who had three steals and made life generally tough for the Liberty guards.

Ganoderma fungi can be either annuals or perennials and are fairly large, with a generally tough bracketlike pileus (cap) that can reach more than 60 cm (24 inches) in diameter.

Nevertheless, the anarcho-syndicalists acquired great prestige among the workers of France and later of Spain and Italy because of their generally tough-minded attitude at a time when working conditions were bad and employers tended to respond brutally to union activity.

The 3 percent, three-year hurdle is substantial and generally tougher than the S.E.C.'s original proposal.

"Commercial lending today is generally tougher than residential lending," said Nicholas Dename, a loan consultant with Poritzky.

Mergers have also created a handful of major carriers that control powerful hub airports in large cities, making it generally tougher for a new airline to break in.

Rather, the struggle is to get the most out of business travel spending in a shaky economy, while airfares and hotel rates are rising, and while conditions on the road are generally tougher than ever.