This can be quite a tough constraining influence on how countries regulate drugs (although some countries, such as the Netherlands, have managed to be more flexible, even though they still sign up to the international conventions).
It mixed the transparency of ethereal gauze with crisp piqué jacket or it married a romantic prettiness with tougher sport influences from parachute drawstrings, through shorts, to perforated corsets.
Perhaps it was Sallie's Swedish tough-mindedness influencing me; or perhaps it was the puppy's seemingly untamable nature; or possibly it was all those other signs on all the other message boards and stapled to telephone poles which seemed to state in a cheerful but hopeless way that fate was ineluctable, and character, personality, will, even untamable nature were only its accidental by-products.
The political parties may all talk tough about the influence of lobbyists but are quite happy to take their money.
There will be no shying away from the tough issues: the influence of those who twist faith into ideology; the cultural attitudes that exclude women from mainstream society; the impact of foreign policy on domestic affairs; and, vitally, the divisive effects of the catastrophic failure of state education in many parts of urban Britain.
Each Working Group will benefit from resources and support to explore a series of tough questions that influence, stymie, benefit, or shape the future of efficacy research on education technology.
Reduced incomes, unemployment, poverty and deepening disparities from tough economic times influence trends around drug abuse and crime, weakening the social and community cohesion in today's world.
To make matters worse, these consumers are one of the toughest groups to influence, because they haven't had an event yet which fundamentally changes their lives.
In an industry of mentors and master-artists, benevolent influence and tough love, he came off as a vain and boastful self-made man.
But it's tough, because the gangs' influence is pernicious.
