It fails to meet the previous standards of tough criticism advanced by the select committee when interrogating the bankers".
If Kelly cannot return for No. 2 seeded Duke, the Blue Devils will have a tough time advancing far in the extremely tough South region, with difficult opponents in every round.
With Parker and Ginobili nursing injuries, the Spurs will have an especially tough time advancing.
Ken Salsman, the director of new technologies at Aptina, a major manufacturer of image sensors for cellphones, conceded that silicon-based sensors had proved tough to advance.
The laggards in Iowa will have a tough time advancing, and for most of them, New Hampshire will amount to a last stand.
No. 2 seed Memphis had a tougher time but advanced to face Nevada, which didn't need its star player to defeat Creighton in overtime.
In America, private prison contractors have been major contributors to public policy organisations that have successfully advanced tough-on-crime legislation and promoted free-market principles.
At the time, you could get away with that sort of thing, but as bike technology and building methods and materials advanced, it became tougher and tougher to compete in that way especially for an average guy with a full time job and bills to pay.
To punctuate their tough reputation, the Boilermakers advanced to the final eight without celebration, leaving as if they had just won a Big Ten Conference regular season game.
Young, fast, tough and talented, they advanced to the penultimate round today with a thorough 77-65 victoverOklahoma StateState in the final of the East Regional of the National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball tournament in the Carrier Dome.
