Sentence examples for taking a tough position from inspiring English sources
"I was stunned to read an intelligence analysis being circulated within the administration that 'we have demolished a budding relationship (with Iraq) by taking a tough position in opposition to chemical weapons,' " he wrote.
Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development.
You want to be wiped out, go ahead, take a tough position and then continue with your nuclear development.
Asked whether the automakers' top executives should lose their jobs if they fail to perform, Mr. Obama took a tough position.
Mr. Powell also took a tough position against Hamas, calling the group "an enemy of peace" and saying the Palestinian leadership needed to take decisive measures against it.
Mr. Fleischer, dismissing Iran's actions on terrorism, also took a tough position on Iran's nuclear program, which the government in Tehran says is for peaceful purposes.
The House bill shows that "the speaker has put consumers first and taken a tough position against the insurance and drug industries," said the spokesman, Nadeam Elshami.
Lilley "used to say that you've got to take a tough position and then you engage in tough negotiations," says Jim Mann, author of About Face, a history of U.S.-China relations.
Mr. Gore has said publicly that he will take a tougher position than Mr. Clinton's.
Airlines have used federal bankruptcy rules in the past to force new contracts on their employees, and American may now take a tougher position with its own unions.
Still, some war opponents on Capitol Hill complained that, had Matzzie and MoveOn demanded Pelosi and others take a tougher position from the outset, they would have enjoyed a stronger negotiating position in the second round, after Bush's veto.
