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It has recently been given tough enforcement powers.

But its early success is turning some heads on Wall Street, particularly given tough financial times.

Heating debate Next week universities will be given tough new targets for carbon reduction.

Rivals disagree, however, arguing that the Fox/Sky combination needs to be given tough scrutiny regardless of favourable decisions in recent years.

But one critic says: "The borrowing level is still unsustainable, given tough market conditions and Premier's [relatively] weak bargaining hand with customers".

Participants in the meeting said she feared the Cologne perpetrators would not be given tough enough sentences to lead to their deportation.

Mr. Child's endings would be even better if his books' worst bad guys, besides being swarthy and disposable foreigners, were given tough-guy talents of their own.

In giving tough advice to Europe, "in a sense the I.M.F. is returning to its roots," said James Raymond Vreeland, a political scientist at Georgetown University.

"Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln give tough, moving performances as a couple making their way in a white world without apologies to anyone," he wrote.

Corporate governance experts have praised these moves, saying that a board dominated by outsiders gives tough, independent advice and offers a broad range of perspectives.

But the United States approach of giving tough love to its banks seems to have worked: Citigroup and others, which taxpayers supported with huge bailouts during the depths of the crisis, have yielded a return to the Treasury.