Tough interventions will be needed if capital which could be used to support business lending is frittered away in bonuses and dividends.
He backed remain but has become an outspoken Brexiter who makes multiple tough interventions in cabinet – which are then widely briefed.
The London media barely cover the ugly problems of Stoke-on-Trent, Burnley, Oldham, Dagenham and the other depressed areas where the BNP has made gains, but justifies its current focus on itself by insisting that Dimbleby's rigorous interviewing and the tough interventions of the mainstream panellists will expose the BNP.
I'd like to see the U.S. really face the serious consequences of our out-of-control obesity epidemic and consider tough interventions, like a soda tax, or perhaps a fat tax, as is taking hold in Europe.
That led Beijing to introduce measures aimed at the hot property market and credit growth, in turn prompting investors to fear that tougher intervention might be in prospect.
Psychiatrists who are initiating their professional careers need a different and tougher intervention regarding their stigmatizing beliefs, given that most of them fitted the "great stigma" profile.
Interbrew, the world's second-largest brewer, had not expected such tough regulatory intervention; its shares fell sharply.Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, said that the December shopping season had been disappointing and that sales would be below its projections.
Perhaps Blair is now a prime candidate for some tough-love intervention himself.
Mr. Cobain, a heroin addict, committed suicide days after disappearing from a rehab center he had agreed to enter after a classic tough-love intervention staged by his wife, Courtney Love, and his Nirvana bandmates, according to news accounts at the time.
