That treaty was bitterly criticized as being too weak at the time, but it did shift expectations and, only three years later, some of the business opponents of the Montreal Protocol were in London arguing to greatly toughen that agreement.
We need to toughen that goal to 350 parts per million".
Concerned about aggressive marketing practices, the Obama administration is toughening rules that restrict institutions that receive federal student aid from paying their admissions recruiters on the basis of enrollment numbers.
He faces a mandatory life sentence, and the judge could toughen that by removing any possibility of parole.
Whereas an earlier version of the plan required a 30 per cent nationwide cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, the final iteration toughens that target to 32 per cent.
We made that change already, and we are now going to toughen that up, so halfway through the five-year spousal settlement there will be another opportunity to make sure your English is improving.
Thomson tells Gambaccini: "Wyler took it upon himself to toughen that character up in the scripting and the shooting – and in fact he really turns into a Nazi.
However, many essential properties, such as fracture toughness, depend on microstructural phenomena, related to grain size, orientation, residual stresses and various toughening mechanisms, that are intentionally introduced into the microstructure.
The publication of the new estimate in early December undercut efforts to toughen sanctions that were initially imposed because Iran refused to follow a United Nations Security Council demand that it stop enriching uranium.
