Sentence examples for tough figures from inspiring English sources

Primary makes you tough, figures out all the things about you that they might use against you in a general.

Summer said they considered Charles Bronson, Sylvester Stallone, and William Smith all of whom had played tough figures, but in 1976, the two producers watched a rough cut of the bodybuilding film Pumping Iron, and agreed Arnold Schwarzenegger was perfect for the role of Conan.

The record was issued on Jet, a label owned by De Paul's new manager, Don Arden, a tough figure in the music business.

McCarthy and his Democratic backers decided to hang tough, figuring that the Republican minority would be happier with him as speaker than with Berman.

Regarding the absence of a clearly mapped out role, the student remarked: "It was tough figuring out something when I didn't know what the right direction was and how it would all come together.

Strange things happen in boxing but one of the toughest figures in the business wearing a dress in a tabloid newspaper clearly took a few members of the fight fraternity by surprise.

And in the background there are less articulate but tougher figures: politicians, factory bosses and criminals who want a stake in the new order.With the general election on April 22nd, Montenegro's history may take a sudden leap forward; supporters of President Milo Djukanovic and his campaign for independence may haul in at least two-thirds of the vote.

The female characters - Rachel Lu (Ming-Na, fofmERly of "ER") and Dr. Nora Campbell Angie Harmonn) - appear to be tough, grave figures.

Tough regional figures, with loyal MPs in tow, can defy central leaders by threatening to break away.

"And I think that's a good-news story in a day in which there will be some very tough economic figures".

Some of the decline can be attributed to tough comparable figures in 2006, when magazines were buoyed by a particularly popular Big Brother series.