Sentence examples for stiffer measures from inspiring English sources

The list included a prominent Saudi businessman, adding to pressure on the reluctant Saudi royalty to take stiffer measures against financiers in their country.

FOR more than three decades, gun-control advocates have pressed lawmakers for stiffer measures, but the gun lobby ensured that they got nowhere in Congress.

The broad outlines of the decision had been widely expected, as both Democrats and Republicans in Congress had urged stiffer measures to curb prices by the independent regulatory agency.

The deal calls for stiff measures that lift the veil of Swiss secrecy.

Barnier said he would announce "stiff measures" in November aimed at taming the power of the agencies.

Last November, the International Labor Organization, a United Nations affiliate based in Geneva with 175 member countries, called for stiff measures against Myanmar, formerly called Burma, because of the military government's practice of forcing villagers to do unpaid construction work.

The formal agreement, which was announced on Thursday by the Justice Department in Washington and which was presented by Swiss authorities on Friday, calls for stiff measures that lift the veil of Swiss banking secrecy.

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He pours me a stiff measure.

And between Monday and Wednesday, Coughlin gained a stiff measure of resolve — and a sense of humor on the subject.

If business executives are looking to China for its low manufacturing costs and sizable market, political leaders are studying a state perceived to have found a recipe for lifting millions out of poverty with fast growth, even if that means a stiff measure of domestic repression.