Mostly, though, she's pushed into shouty singing on "I'm Dat Chick" and "Feelin Me Right Now," which feel like boxing-ring-tough assertions of dominance.
Mr. Coffey said, however, there were plenty of instances when he did make tough decisions, an assertion Mr. Westin echoed.
Such a move would politically get the party noticed and add all important meat to Balls' somewhat vague assertions that tough decisions would have to be made if Labour are returned to power come 2015.
Delta also contains what I have come to think of as an "arthouse rape": a flourish of sexual violence that, in some sacrificial sense, pays for the indulgence and drifting dreaminess, and which functions as a brutally corrective assertion of tough reality.
However, she added, the activity of patent-assertion entities "raises tough competition policy and enforcement issues that defy a one-dimensional answer".
But the Labour leader's defiant assertion that "hell, yes" he was tough enough for the job was a much more memorable "moment" and got much more airtime.
"It is up to Congress, the courts and the public to ask the tough questions and press even experienced intelligence officials to back their assertions up with actual evidence, rather than simply deferring to these officials' conclusions without challenging them".
Together, they leave us with a tough set of intertwining questions: Can religion — with its absolute and sweeping assertions — make any claim on a society whose doctrines require it to defer, in part, to all, even to blasphemers?
The first-term governor is locked in a close race with Beauprez, whose campaign has focused on assertions that Hickenlooper is a weak leader unwilling to make tough decisions.
Sadly, such unfounded assertions cast doubt on every wheelchair user in every airport, for whom life is already tough enough.
Still, some toxicologists and industry groups have long disputed the assertion that endocrine disrupters can trigger effects at minimal doses; this idea can be tough to test in lab animals, which are usually exposed to high doses in toxicology studies.
