Sentence examples for hardly tough from inspiring English sources

But American privacy campaigners say oversight in the US is hardly tough.

When it came time for each to ask the other a question, they were hardly tough or probing.

Central government, by contrast, spends £13m on free fruit for four- to six-year-olds - welcome, but hardly tough health policy.

Sure, it's limited to punching through drywall and crushing cans for now — but it's hardly tough to imagine robots like this pulling people out of burning buildings within our lifetime, their operators rocking exoskeleton rigs just outside of the building.

I wasn't too worried, she was difficult but they were hardly tough prerequisites.

Lina was a naive NYU sophomore from Nassau County in Long Island; she had dyed black hair and a few piercings, but she was hardly tough or sophisticated.

The approach is hardly tougher than the requirement for ministers to explain whether they are going to reach child poverty targets.

To the absurdist eye, the clergy at play is hardly a tough goal; Jacques Tati would have scored it in seconds and then moved on.

Solidarity for Economic Reform, a civic chaebol watchdog, noted that four years in prison for Mr. Chey was hardly a tough punishment.

The problem, as in Poland, is a weak centre-left government which could hardly get tough fiscal adjustments through parliament even if it truly wanted them.

That's hardly a tough or trick question, but rather than concede she isn't all-knowing or depart from her script, the senator deflected it with another mini-speech.