Sentence examples for tough reaction from inspiring English sources

"This has triggered a tough reaction, and it should," Mr. Immelt told about 1,000 shareholders.

He called for the EU and international community to take a "tough reaction against the treacherous actions of the rebels and Russia".

"You add all that together and it certainly appeared that the government had used excessive force," said the senior American diplomat, explaining Washington's tough reaction toward Mr. Chávez.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's tough reaction to the Kurdish ballot got a boost from the country's highest Shiite religious authority, the influential Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.

Any tough reaction from the South now could also frighten investors and harm the economy, which has been recovering quickly from the global financial crisis.

In Annan's telling, there was no other logical response, given the United Nations' under-equipped peacekeeping force in Rwanda and the reluctance of the Clinton administration to support a tough reaction in the wake of a debacle in Somalia, where 19 U.S. Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force were killed by supporters of a Somali warlord.

At the same time, the Ambassador has recommended tough reactions to what he regards as Soviet misbehavior.

Tough reactions from Tehran have led some to believe that with the prospect of a deal now dimming a blame-game has already started.

In response, Reuters reported, Turkey scrambled fighter jets to its southeastern border with Syria, underlining Turkey's insistence that it will not refrain from a tougher reaction.

But there are fears in the youth justice system voiced by Liberal Democrats that the use of detention for teenagers who breach the proposed antisocial behaviour orders would be an even tougher reaction than Labour's old regime and reverse the decline of children detained in youth custody.

A tough Western reaction might have stopped the Russian offensive after last weekend.