Sentence examples for tough exchanges from inspiring English sources

It's town hall, not free range, so that encourages niceness and fewer tough exchanges between the candidates.

Tough exchanges on the foundering economy, the Iraq war, health care, climate change, and other issues that voters care about would be welcome.

In one of several tough exchanges, the Greek finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, was taken to task by Mr. Schäuble for having failed to begin the required negotiations with labor unions to enable the minimum wage to be reduced.

On Sunday, when the 27 leaders had their first round of deliberations, emotions ran high and some tough exchanges soon leaked out to the news media, designed as ever to make individual leaders look smarter, more intelligent or more courageous than the others.

In one of several tough exchanges, the Greek finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, was taken to task by the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, for having failed to begin the required negotiations with labor unions over the reduction in the minimum wage.

"I don't repeat myself," he said, as he struggled through another tough exchange with Rubio.

"We had a tough exchange with Governor Christie," he told the Guardian after the debate, "but Marco continued to get stronger and stronger throughout the night".

Now Mr. Bush's stance suggests that the United States and China may be headed to tougher exchanges, after the Clinton administration had finally succeeded in repairing most of the diplomatic damage done by the accidental American bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during NATO's air war against Serbia in 1999.

Before long, Mr. Hewlett, a member of the compensation committee of the Hewlett-Packard board, responded, prompting the toughest exchange in the proxy fight.

He does plenty of interviews and he's got two televised debates under his belt, but this was probably the toughest exchange so far.

Others include lowering interest rates and, to stop capital flight, re-imposing tougher exchange controls (as the Chinese did last week to slow outflows).