Sentence examples for put stiff from inspiring English sources

That has forced @Home and others to put stiff limits on how much broadcast-quality video Internet sites connected to their network may offer.

Federal officials blocked a proposed United-US andways merger and put stiff conditions on a code-share partnership among Continental, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines.

Topping the news this hour, Micron Technology shares are higher today, after South Korea offered to cut memory chip shipments to the U.S. South Korea waived the olive branch threat in response to a U.S. decision to put stiff duties on memory chip shipments from the country's Hynix Semiconductor.

But the loyalists inside continued to put up stiff resistance with rockets, mortars and gunfire.

Rand Paul (above), a libertarian-minded Republican running for president, had put up stiff resistance to even the modified version of the act.

As the 10-minute game in his hotel room drew to a close, RZA put up stiff resistance, but soon his king was encircled.

The army now has to seal the north-west coast to cut a vital Tiger weapons supply-line from southern India, and simultaneously drive up the eastern flank, which has put up stiff resistance.

As we have said before, the surest and probably the only way to encourage meaningful and swift commercial development of cleaner fuels and energy sources is to put a stiff price on carbon emissions.

He sponsored a bill with John Kerry that would have aggressively raised fuel economy standards, and another that would have put a stiff price on carbon emissions to encourage investment in cleaner technologies.

Some hope it will eventually take the next logical step, and replace the card with a softSIM, a piece of software code that does the same job.Operators would put up stiff resistance to putting re-programmable SIMs, let alone softSIMs, into phones, says Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis, a consulting firm.

At least one of the big telecoms firms is expected to sue; the Republican-controlled Congress is also likely to put up stiff resistance.This will further extend a decision-making process which has already dragged on for more than a decade.