Sentence examples for tough standing from inspiring English sources

"To the extent she's a woman and has to prove she's tough, standing her ground is the best thing to do.

By this, he meant, say, a band in T-shirts, looking tough, standing in the back of a warehouse — authenticity as a euphemism for the absence of an idea.

Even if blessed with her superior knowledge of vegetables, it's tough standing all day and ringing up groceries.

It's tough standing out in the increasingly overcrowded world of fitness trackers.

But it's tough standing on the sideline and watching because you're trying to watch everybody, but you can't.

Back then it was all tough guys standing around an oil drum singing on the street.

"I know because I worked for NBC and I had a tough time standing up for my network".

Entering the game as the No. 1 ranked team for all but one week of the season, the Badgers knew they would have a tough opponent standing in their way of repeating their title success from last season.

Nader, who had won a 1955 Golden Globe award for most promising newcomer, went on to co-star as a navy lieutenant of tough integrity standing up to the unyielding captain Jeff Chandler in Away All Boats (1956), and was a reassuring masculine presence in The Unguarded Moment (1956), as a policeman helping a teacher (a non-swimming Esther Williams) cope with a psychopathic student.

Where Republicans looked to the imagery of a battered but resilient New York to project a tough president standing up to the dangerous world, Democrats are looking to this city as the symbol of an administration that is at once incompetent and heartless.

As with many an Android OEM Sony has had a pretty tough time standing out in the crowded smartphone space.