Sentence examples for tough marker from inspiring English sources

3. My former students would say I'm a tough marker but at least I'm not a Klingon.

(To strengthen deterrence against Tehran, Pollack wisely lays down tough markers should Iran threaten to use nukes or try to supply terrorists with them).

That is as close to boasting as Murray is ever likely to come and there was a sense that it was a statement of intent, laying down a marker for the toughest challenge in tennis: getting past the world No1, Novak Djokovic, for a second time to win Wimbledon – and stop the Serb's run at a calendar grand slam.

Icy yet inviting, tough but troubled, Tennison became the marker by which subsequent TV cops would be judged.

Q. Do we still need markers? A. That's a tough question.

And as far as historical markers go, they just had a tough week.

"Being in that top six is pretty tough but, at the same time, I think that's a marker that we're ambitious and it's a marker that we want to attract quality players here.

It is quite difficult coming off the bench, especially in a tough game like that, so it will be good to put a marker down from minute one.

Mr. Golshiri's tough, wiry second New York solo is made up of sculptural grave markers, most of them in the horizontal format of Muslim tombstones.

The slowly shrinking gender disparity of MPs is constantly held up as a marker of progress, yet at the same time, Rachel Reeves promises to be "tougher" than the Tories when it comes to savaging the welfare state.

For starters, it's made from the glass-reinforced plastic, Grivory, the same tough material we use in our NIGHTSHADE SERIES, and features walls that are 4 times thicker than similar markers.