What was most surprising to me was Tough's insistence, bolstered by his reporting, that character is not something you have to learn as a small child, or are born with, but can be instilled even in teenagers who have had extraordinarily difficult lives and had no previous grounding in these traits.
Surprisingly, given President Bush's initial insistence on tough accountability, those critics now include Mr. Kress.
Mr. LaPierre asserted that Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore had political reasons for their adamant insistence on tough gun control legislation.
Speaking in the Greek parliament, Tsipras called on creditors to reassess the IMF's insistence on tough cuts as part of the country's bailout.
Speaking in the Greek parliament Alexis Tsipras called on creditors to reassess the IMF's insistence on tough cuts as part of the country's bailout.
At Germany's insistence, a tough line was taken against eurozone states, notably Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal – "peripheral" economies that had borrowed heavily on the new currency's credibility to launch unsustainable booms.
A quarter of the workforce is out of a job, the economy has shrunk more than any other developed nation's since the Great Depression, and even some officials in Germany, which has led the insistence on tough reforms, acknowledge that Greece is facing a humanitarian crisis.
Mr. Stewart bristles with ornery charm as the tough-talking Bobby, whose insistence on total control of his charges leads to a showdown with Ajay over the direction of his training.
Russia's financial stake in Iraq has become part of the diplomatic maneuvering over the Bush administration's insistence on a tough stance against Mr. Hussein.
Relations between Obama and Netanyahu have been severely strained by the Israeli leader's insistence on a tougher US stance on the Iranian nuclear programme, which the US has resisted.
