Sentence examples for tough head from inspiring English sources

Of Gary Ballance, who returned to the side after a year out and offered greater permanence than Vince in the second innings with his 43, Bayliss said: "He has a tough head on his shoulders.

Ballance can be equally forgettable at the crease but his attributes have obviously not escaped Bayliss, who spoke well of him after the Lord's Test: "He has a tough head on his shoulders.

Once at the school, he is hit smartly in the face with "a world stained by deprivation" and, in spite of the heroic efforts of a tough head, the blunt reality of life in an inner-city comprehensive.

Aside from the pricey premium payments, the bank would also have to sell some of its branch network to alleviate concerns of the European Competition Commission and its tough head, "Nickle" Neelie Kroes, that banks receiving state aid could gain an unfair advantage over banks that do not.

We talk on the phone for hours sometimes, and last year I had a particularly tough head-trip and called him up, and he understood.

For several challengers, like Mr. Lewis, a postal worker who does the overnight shift and is staging his bid from his basement in the suburbs, silence feels worse than a tough head-on fight.

The series that both coaches predicted would be tough heads to Boston for Games 3 and 4, beginning Friday.

It is especially hard when we try to get it through the tough heads of world leaders.

"My friend had a problem of coughing and back ache and her chest had pains so I used to advise her to know her HIV status, I used to tell her 'the way I see you coughing, your cough is too deep and let me take you to xxxx health facility so that you can know your status maybe its TB' [tuberculosis] but she was tough headed, she didn't go.

According to Isacson, the raids were an obvious attempt to look tough and head off anti-immigration critics.

A world seeking desperately to find the path towards renewed economic vibrancy needs politicians to say yes to confronting the tough issues head on and voters to say yes to participating in all election contests rather than leaving a vacuum for fringe voices to exploit.