Sentence examples for shown toughness from inspiring English sources

"He has shown toughness when necessary, compassion when necessary, and he has rallied the city well.

De Gaulle evidently sensed the emergence of Pompidou as a serious rival, for the prime minister had shown toughness and nerve during the crisis, while the president had temporarily lost his bearings.

Lawson was among those showing toughness on Sunday.

The players showed toughness and they were brave".

But Brown cut support for the childless unemployed to show toughness.

And they move quickly to show toughness, but act rather than think".

I felt he was a pushover … Trump just shows toughness, and I love that".

Another motive may have been to show toughness at home when a concession was being made to America.

"The national honour required that Erdogan responded in some way that shows toughness and resolve and would intimidate the Syrians from further action across the border.

The war on Iraq, he said bluntly, is the act of a "weak person who wants to show toughness" and, quite frankly, seems "deranged".

On Sunday, a senior government official said Mr. Singh's administration would have to consider a range of measures to show toughness toward Pakistan.