Sentence examples for tough plans from inspiring English sources

"As for current spending, which is most government spending, I'm saying very clearly to my Shadow Cabinet colleagues: don't plan on any more money – we'll inherit very tough plans, we'll have to work with those plans and reprioritise within them".

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

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.

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 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.

The reason Britain has destabilising bubbles in property is simple: this is a small island with a large and growing population, tough planning regulations limiting new housing developments and a tax system that encourages owner-occupation.

It has tough planning controls that prohibit development on green belts around the country's major cities, and it has a tax system that provides incentives for people to buy bricks and mortar.