Sentence examples for tough a customer from inspiring English sources

He is impressed to see her wake up, register his presence and make herself go limp, despite her reflexive urge to do anything but; she, after all, is almost as tough a customer as he is.

"If anybody in your family is as tough a customer as you are, you're going to be in trouble," said Anilee, adding that she was fired from her first waitressing job for spilling water all over the silk dress of a rich lady in the Hamptons.

Barber's piece is a tough customer -- tougher perhaps than it has to be -- and with a viciously difficult finale; Mr. Ivanov was impressively loud and fast.

Overcome again by Lincoln's example — by the idea of a President who was at once an interesting mind, a tough customer, and a good writer — I decided to start reading the new Lincoln literature.

He role-played a call to a tough customer, with a legal recruiter named Valerie.

I also know that it's tough to look a customer in the eye and disagree with them, especially when you're first starting out.

I found one of those players at Wimbledon, Jelena Jankovic, a former No. 1, now ranked third, from Serbia, a tough customer with a big smile and sunny profile.

As the world tackles climate change, polluting companies, say, will lose out to tougher regulation and a customer backlash.

For one thing, he's unflappable; for another, he's a tough customer, something of a silent assassin.

"By all accounts he was kind of a tough customer," said Lissa Muscatine, a longtime friend and adviser to Mrs. Clinton.

All in all, Tacket might prove a tough customer while running in a stakes race for the first time.