Sentence examples for tough statements from inspiring English sources

Then, in the interview, he made the kinds of tough statements that have long been his hallmark in the area of foreign policy.

In making her own tough statements on Iran, Mrs. Clinton acknowledged that the process of building support for sanctions in the United Nations was taking longer than expected.

Zardari has made tough statements against Islamic extremism, and Pakistan's army says it continues to attack rebel positions in operations in the country's volatile north-west.

Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski, who has made tough statements in the last two weeks, has accepted the president's plan and appears ready to negotiate.

Still, several Israeli commentators said that while Israeli officials were issuing tough statements in an effort at deterrence, they were not eager to be dragged into an all-out confrontation.

The South, under the new government of President Park Geun-hye — the South's first female leader — has also issued tough statements, saying that if the North proceeded with nuclear attacks, its government would be "erased from the earth".

Yet as Osborne warms up for a tough statement this week, businesses are still warning that not much is happening on the ground.

The tough statement by the Foreign Office came as anger mounted on Capitol Hill about Bin Laden being found in a garrison city in Pakistan after more than $10 billion dollars in assistance to Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies over the last decade.

When Stimson showed him the tough statement he had initialed at Quebec he seemed "perfectly staggered," Stimson later recalled, saying, "I have not the faintest recollection of this at all".

"Results from N.I.H.-funded research must not be biased by any conflicting financial interests," John Burklow, a spokesman for the health institutes, said in the kind of tough statement that in the past has rarely been followed by real sanctions.

He also joined with Democratic representatives Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Jay Inslee of Washington – two other leaders of this emerging majority within the caucus – to author a tough statement of principles for climate legislation.