Sentence examples for tough each from inspiring English sources

Most guys in the league know how tough each opponent is, so the tougher guys get a little more time in my mind!

But if New Yorkers think of themselves as a group of people standing together against the world ("We're New Yorkers, and we are tough," each New York mayor says after each disaster), Londoners wear their urban identities more lightly, living in the city but not necessarily of it.

As Oakley touched his last hair into place before exiting the Knicks' locker room in Vancouver's General Motors Place on Friday, after a game in which he scrambled for his 10,000th rebound in 13 years, he walked away without so much as a moan about how tough each and every rebound had been in his career, or how much wear his 6-foot-9-inch frame had taken over the last month.

Meanwhile, the featured guests on those major network sunday shows – many of whom have never met a war they didn't like anyway – tried to out-tough each other this week for who would go to war with Isis harder.

Penalties for persistently failing to make progress get tougher each year, and include curriculum revisions, changes in staffing, reorganizing of schools and loss of federal financing.

This year less than half of the state's 1,109 schools met the federal law's benchmark for the percentage of students showing proficiency, a challenge that will get tougher each year.

Thankfully, some of the other new products will match the spoon's standards, but the search to find them becomes tougher each year as the furniture fair and its fringe events are dwarfed by the promotional shindigs thrown by the banks, fashion houses, carmakers and other companies that will converge on the city.

They've seemingly been trying to out-tough each other, clearly thinking a hard line is a vote winner.

"The Heineken Cup is getting tougher and tougher each year and we've certainly got a challenging pool," said Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder.

But Selby, a finalist in 2007, is in no doubt that the competition is getting tougher each year and that there are a host of players capable of lifting the title.

Humans might be making it even tougher: Each year we dump more than 4 million metric tons of plastic into the ocean, where it breaks down into pieces small enough to get snapped up by these centimeter-long swimmers.