Sentence examples for imposed tough from inspiring English sources

They seem to have imposed tough conditions.

Congress, largely blaming welfare, imposed tough restrictions.

The state has imposed tough regulations and monitoring on salt-dome caverns to forestall future problems.

Their first emergency loans imposed tough conditions on Greece, but none on the bankers.

But since the banking crisis, the Financial Conduct Authority has imposed tough affordability requirements.

Because of Argentina's failure to comply with previous accords, the IMF has imposed tough preconditions for any new deal.

In 1997, legislation approved by Congress imposed tough rules on the sale or transfer of pathogens within the country.

In 1997, the E.P.A. administrator Carol Browner imposed tough standards for smog and soot that reflected the scientific consensus.

Florida's Legislature imposed tough requirements on absentee voters after widespread abuses led to the reversal of Miami's mayoral election.

The UN security council imposed tough sanctions after the North conducted nuclear weapons tests in 2006 and 2009.

It has also launched the biggest round-up of North Koreans in the border area in recent years, and has imposed tough penalties on those who help them.