Sentence examples for tough plan from inspiring English sources

"The Greek Parliament has just adopted a very tough plan," he said.

The commission's tough plan, unveiled in January and now apparently dead, called for a four-month building moratorium in the hardest-hit neighborhoods while they proved their "viability".

But Ryan's approach was rendered toothless when the issue's brutal politics forced him to retreat from his initial tough plan to simply cap the growth in government spending on Medicare and stick the inevitable overage onto beneficiaries.

The president has wrecked the UN and he's wrecked the possibility of a tough plan to control global warming.

Dear Bill, Yesterday, in response to the end of the Copenhagen negotiations, you issued a press release with 350.org titled "The President has wrecked the UN (and the planet)," in which you wrote: "The president has wrecked the U.N. and he's wrecked the possibility of a tough plan to control global warming.

Most British woodlands are already private and are covered by tough planning rules and strict regulations on tree-cutting.

Others, notably in the north-east and California, have strongly resisted Wal-Mart's advance by adopting tough planning requirements and local ordinances that restrict shop sizes.

The immovable object is the lack of supply: tough planning laws; the regional mismatch between homes and jobs; the reluctance of homeowners to sell or downshift.

"We've always had a tough planning board that fought to keep out large developments with cookie-cutter homes," explained Mayor Emilia M. Siciliano.

Critically, Mr Koizumi has also kept on as minister in charge of the financial clean-up Hakuo Yanagisawa, whose tough plans for the banks have come under assault from the LDP establishment.

The Labour government of 2007 set a target of 240,000 new homes by 2016, but a cocktail of a rigorous recession, tough planning laws and a lack of available land has left the market short and sent prices spiralling.