Sentence examples for increasingly rough from inspiring English sources

The mood is hushed, generally, which helps Taylor's increasingly rough vocals go down smoothly.

But they have been playing increasingly rough in recent years: witness China's willingness to imprison three Rio Tinto executives for supposedly taking bribes, and Russia's treatment of BP.

Some said the increasingly rough neighborhoods in Harlem and Times Square scared off middle-class parents; others pointed to an overall decline in city schools.

And as Waxman observes, they are resorting to increasingly rough tactics — "lawsuits and criminal prosecution, public embarrassment and bare-knuckled threats".

With increasingly rough storms and a global rise in sea levels of 0.14 inches per year since the early 1990s, the existence of the island — just five feet above sea level, on average — seems increasingly at risk.

For the orchestra's unsmiling leader, Tewfiq — the magnificently sober Sasson Gabai — the initial lack of a welcome will prove to be only the first bump on an increasingly rough and rutted road.

"There was general agreement," he said of the increasingly rough-and-tumble nature of some judicial campaigns, "that this trend is not good for the country".

In trying not to draw attention from Morrissey's voice, his band's increasingly rough-hewn and basic rock-outs often simply ended up sounding dull.

Add to the mix women who hope that Mr Khatami might give them a fairer deal, the middle classes wanting freedom of expression, and the young craving change, even within the confines of Islam .Liberal" is a damaging epithet in Iran which Mr Khatami rejects (it is being hurled at him as part of a campaign that has become increasingly rough-and-tumble).

By the end of the 1966 Acropolis Rally though, it had become clear that low-slung sports cars such as the Tiger were unsuited to the increasingly rough-terrain rally stages, and the car was withdrawn from competition soon after.

It was a magnificent innings, particularly as his team had scored only 14 runs in the opening 11 overs and lost Tendulkar to a sharply turning delivery from Nathan Lyon that gripped in the increasingly prominent rough areas and bowled the maestro between bat and pad for 81 as he drove.