The survey is being used to spearhead a national campaign for tougher legislation to prevent weapons falling into the wrong hands. |
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The tougher regime should also stop a rather dubious practice in the mortgage industry. |
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Then to find out just how rugged it really was I tried slicing up a pot roast that was tougher than saddle leather and twice as stiff. |
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Furious residents called for tougher police measures in a desperate bid to combat hooliganism. |
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Growth had been expected to come down during the year, because of tougher year-on-year comparisons. |
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Union chiefs are now asking the Government to lay down tougher security guidelines for all bus operators. |
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We must be tough on this crime, and even tougher on the causers of such crime. |
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To win relicensing, owners had to accept tougher web filtering technologies, something industry sources believe was long planned. |
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Intimate scenes can be tougher to enact without the protection of the fourth wall. |
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The caterpillars that spin commercial silk can make much tougher or more elastic threads, depending on how fast they're forced to spin. |
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Getting to the top that quickly through internal growth will be tougher than dancing the Texas two-step with your boots on backward. |
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He said tougher standards were needed to crack down on thugs and drunken yobs. |
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But it also includes a push for tougher enforcement of trade pacts, including an assault on dumping and export subsidies. |
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And in mass lay-offs, it will be tougher to convince the boss to single you out for better treatment. |
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After a rug is finished it is washed in the bath and mothproofed, so that it shrinks and is made tougher. |
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Smith has good upper-body strength and held his own against some of the tougher tackles in the division. |
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If you are poor with the ball it generally makes it tougher when you haven't got it. |
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We are overwhelmed by information, so conveying a message that sticks is tougher than ever. |
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The rules will be tougher than under Australian law, but then, most of the boat people ARE refugees. |
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Campaigning then was a bit tougher than it is now, so tough in fact that George Albert employed a bodyguard. |
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Against the wind in the second half, Confey now had to face a far tougher challenge but they were equal to the task. |
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It's too bad Amazon cannot overnight a sense of perspective, because there are, in truth, tougher situations to find yourself in. |
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Yet again Brosnan has shown himself to be tougher than his male model looks suggest. |
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Husbands who kill their unfaithful wives out of sexual jealousy will face tougher sentences under new guidelines sent to judges yesterday. |
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Gradually light silk slippers were worn by the females, with the men having a tougher sole, and were made out of leather. |
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Pressing teams can have a tougher time squeezing out turnovers, and running teams can by slowed by slogging opponents. |
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Police are crediting their tougher stance, new hi-tech equipment and improved security here and in Europe for the drop. |
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Anyway, times are getting tougher and there are lots of reasons not to invest in the stock market. |
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Mr Best agrees that tougher planning controls should apply, but insists the case against masts on health grounds remains unproven. |
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However, his assignment at VW may prove tougher than his three-year stint at Chrysler. |
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In the past year, Irish police have adopted a tougher approach to pubs and off-licences that sell drink to teens. |
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Although the bill looks quite good on the face of it and is a little tougher than the current legislation, that legislation is inherently soft. |
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It gets even tougher when an economic downturn follows hard on the heels of an economic upswing. |
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Adding carbon to iron to make steel does make it stronger and tougher, up to a point. |
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We need better public services locally and a tougher attitude towards vandalism and crime. |
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So where it was tougher to get the electrical power to, for the bigger bucketwheels, they've always been using truck and shovel. |
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But bugging out before next year's election could leave the administration facing even tougher decisions a little further down the road. |
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As the types of meat were as likely to be lower quality animals, methods were needed to help tenderize the tougher cuts of meat. |
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And the Vietcong and North Vietnamese were a tougher, more tenacious enemy, he says. |
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These good practices shouldn't let us evade the tougher questions about how we justify importing active learning techniques into the classroom. |
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Few players in the league are tougher than him, but that doesn't mean he should get a hall pass when going to the rim. |
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Upgrading a module that combines PHP with SQL is a tougher nut to crack, and it seems as though the XOOPS people have done an admirable job. |
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I was fortunate to begin on the crest of a wave, however, the industry has become much tougher. |
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Less resistant strains tend to be killed off by antibiotics, while those which are genetically tougher survive. |
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The news organizations fear the tougher law would result in subpoenas being issued to journalists who published leaked information. |
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Meanwhile, the FDA says it will tighten requirements for drug wholesalers so it's tougher to sneak counterfeits into legitimate supplies. |
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As the market swells, the competition gets tougher, giving the customer a greater range of benefits and cost-saving options. |
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For some, owning a car is difficult but reversing the vehicle is even tougher a task. |
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Among criminal justice measures, there are now tougher penalties aimed at repeat drunken-driving offenders, as well as for grave robbing. |
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The father of a young boy killed by a banned motorcyclist has welcomed plans for tougher punishments for death crash drivers. |
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He would like to see the courts taking a tougher line with young troublemakers. |
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As far as I know, they haven't changed anything in terms of making it tougher for reps to goof off. |
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Something tells me that the federal sentencing standards are tougher on Post Office robberies than supermarket stick-ups. |
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Further up the slope, the going gets tougher as the scree run is encountered. |
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Despite the prospect of a much tougher trading environment, plans to demerge its property assets have provided a support for the share price. |
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You may simmer tougher herbal roots and barks to make them into decoctions, another form of water extract. |
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The filet mignon was equally satisfying, and so was the tougher, more flavorful sirloin. |
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The province of Manitoba, already home to the toughest drunk-driving laws in the country, is getting even tougher. |
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But every waking hour the competition in the mobile communications market gets tougher. |
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Even as technology expands the way leaders can communicate, it's gotten tougher than ever to be heard. |
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Braising is a cooking method usually used for tougher cuts of meat, such as pot roasts, rumps, shanks and ribs. |
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With the continuous increase in the number of graduates, the job situation is getting tougher and tougher. |
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Other, tougher polyethylene options are woven poly and high-density polyethylene, a honeycombed material with better energy efficiency. |
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We have made your lives more livable, with tougher penalties for graffiti taggers. |
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One day I labored in the basement kitchen plucking a hundred pigeons, burning the tougher feathers off with a hand-held torch. |
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If you can hold a plank for more than two minutes with ease, you can move on to these tougher variations. |
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Since the tyre is tougher than a tube, it takes a long time for the air to escape from it when it is pierced by something sharp. |
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This was a much tougher game than the score suggests, and it took a slick set piece to break the deadlock. |
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Congress is looking at reforming indecency laws to be much tougher on transgressors. |
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Modern aluminium pans have a non-stick interior coating of Teflon or some tougher composite material. |
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His employers at Guthy-Renker were making it even tougher by sweetening his package to persuade him to stay. |
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Tomorrow's race promises to be tougher, but the Norton gelding is fancied to produce a repeat performance under regular rider Paul Hanagan. |
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This is a tougher race than his latest assignment, but Mick Easterby's previous course winner is fancied to make good use of his light weight. |
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Now, as the economy staggers and falters, day-to-day survival presses more harshly, which makes social commitment still tougher. |
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The acid will help kill any bacteria lurking in the meat and will tenderize tougher cuts. |
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As part of the crackdown against absenteeism, the parents of persistent truants have been threatened with tougher fines and jail sentences. |
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I don't, for a moment, pretend that times are not tough and may well get tougher. |
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Nothing's tougher for an animator to mimic than hair, and the Affleck has a motionless coif fit for a video game character. |
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Actually they'll have a tougher time than you might think since apparently their army consists of bad guys from every side scroller ever made. |
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She pulled it off in the quagmire at Loch Lomond, but it will certainly be a tougher proposition under the hostile glare of Minneapolis. |
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While there's still a little charm under that permatan, it's getting tougher for him to sell the goods on only a smile. |
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Declan did a good job running the event, though he should have been tougher on the slow players in my opinion. |
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After defeating Burnley and thrashing Gillingham 7-1, the young Blues will find it much tougher at Goodison Park. |
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But when the distances are longer and the borders tougher, the journeys become much more perilous. |
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The final was a much tougher match, with Stevie nudging ahead on points before he finally caught his opponent with a superb throw to take gold. |
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While this message was hugely popular among Russians, it was a tougher sell in the outside world. |
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With a sixth round tie against Bolton awaiting the winner Mark believes a trip to the Reebok would be tougher than going to Highbury. |
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Nicely priced, it's a fine bridge between the home player to the individual ready for that quantum jump to bigger money and tougher players. |
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The rains are due but they will not supply enough water and will wash roads away, making aid deliveries tougher still. |
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Longer limbs are tougher to control and generate force that leaves them susceptible to injuries. |
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The main difference is that the roping palm is heavier and has deeper recessed dimples and a tougher leather backing. |
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New regulations that come into force at the beginning of 2004 will bring even tougher standards for drinking water quality. |
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But that creates the ticklish media management problem of whether to say that the new versions are tougher. |
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The new rules seek tougher penalties for legislators who absent themselves from a hearing, a session or a deliberation on a bill. |
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I believe farmers would benefit from tougher antitrust laws and probably from a voluntary set-aside program for major field crops. |
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On January 1, California's new tougher standards for those convicted of trespassing on farms and ranches went into effect. |
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It may well be there is no tougher Australian athlete, and yet she admits there were times she almost tossed it in. |
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You may be suffering from low-grade depression, formally known as dysthymia, which is milder and tougher to identify than acute depression. |
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I thought it was tough love telling him to leave home but I really think it was tougher to go to the police. |
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Then again, children are, in many ways, tougher than adults, and it may haunt them less than it has haunted me. |
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With natural gas prices so low due to huge new supplies of shale gas, besting the current energy system has become tougher. |
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There are stepped-up air patrols, surface-to-air missiles at critical points, and tougher security checks for travelers. |
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The clocks have gone back, it's getting colder and driving conditions are about to get a great deal tougher. |
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The weather had changed very much for the worse and, in horrible conditions, fishing was much tougher. |
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As the competitive demands get greater and the opposition tougher, one might expect the usage levels of ergogenic aids to increase. |
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In the weeks that followed, Japanese policy toward China see-sawed several times, but generally moved towards greater mobilization and tougher demands. |
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And they believe in tougher sanctions precisely because they want to avert war. |
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But we saw the same philosophy on North Korea, where he badgered the Bush administration to be tougher. |
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After considering a voluntary program last week, the decision to impose tougher restrictions was made on Monday because the flow over the weir had ceased. |
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Using his rapier-like jab and speed afoot, Ali earned a lopsided decision in a bout that was physically much tougher than the final outcome indicates. |
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They propose that we pressure China to improve its human-rights policy, or to get tougher on Iran, or to devalue its currency. |
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Indeed, Hollande's win Sunday night is little more than a drumroll before a much tougher battle to come. |
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I need, not just want, some new boots with tougher zips and buckles than the last pair, which will last through the coming year and the afore-mentioned snow. |
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Finally, most of the water is stripped off the surface when the thread leaves the exit spigot, helping the spider to avoid water loss and making its thread even tougher. |
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Life for students is a lot tougher financially these days, compared to when I went up to University in the late Eighties, which was the life of Riley in comparison. |
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There is always a time in every country's history where it needs to draw a line in the sand and take tougher measures even if that means taking a big economic risk. |
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Sisley, who had managed to win over a skeptical federal government, was now facing an even tougher opponent. |
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It might have been tougher for Godfrey had the Cooper S of his competitors not lost nearly 10 minutes right at the start of the Radnor stage with a broken rotor arm. |
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He said the report would lead to an improvement plan, which would bolster the mediation service offered in neighbour disputes, and get tougher on tenants in arrears. |
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Emissions trading programs need to occur within an articulated policy, such as the one proposed in the Kyoto Protocol, but with tougher penalties and clearer standards. |
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Milder conditions prevailed last Saturday with the greens recovering at a great rate and a north-easterly springing up in the arvo, making good scores a little tougher. |
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Releasing G.I. Joe in November rather than December, when it would face tougher DVD competition, may enhance sales. |
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Tom Perez for Labor and Gina McCarthy for the EPA were tougher votes for Republicans than Hochberg, but even they made it. |
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The other transition from being a songwriter with a normal life to first lady was tougher. |
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Long, slow cooking tenderises tougher cuts, making them melt in the mouth. |
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In Illinois, which houses some of the tougher DUI laws in the nation, even smoking a joint a week before can implicate you. |
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The security upgrade includes new criminal investigation teams based at major airports, tougher screening of airport staff and boosts to customs and surveillance. |
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Initially the birds vanished from the countryside, as farmers learnt how to farm more efficiently and tougher hygiene rules led to the sealing of barns and grain stores. |
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Working in political theatre is even tougher, particularly if you start off as a student with a massive overdraft to clear and the wages of a bean counter. |
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He was a strange, compelling figure who became tougher as he grew older. |
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Suddenly the beauty of the location became even tougher to leave behind. |
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For in today's topsy-turvy business world, defining core corporate purpose, even at the level of social chit-chat, has never offered a tougher challenge. |
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It's tougher to find quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple homophones. |
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It may be necessary to re-sow lawns using tougher grasses such as rye, as the softer and lusher fescues and bents so commonly used today will burn up in the hot summer sun. |
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If you look around and don't see as many strikes, and a lot of splits or spares are on the board, the lanes probably are playing a little bit tougher. |
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The good doctor gave as good as he got in one of the tougher interview environments around. |
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In other words, make fireworks less available for home misuse and develop an ever tougher crackdown on drunk drivers. |
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Then tougher legislation is announced to deal with the inflated problem. |
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The central bank wants tougher rules for obtaining a banking license, better financial reporting standards, and higher minimum capital requirements. |
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A contemporary, and colleague of Ernest Shackleton and Captain Scott, Mawson was even tougher. |
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If Washington is to adopt a tougher stance toward Beijing, it needs a lot of methodical calculation. |
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Why the U.S. should fund Pakistan's misbehavior is a question tougher than ever to answer. |
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In the final hour of motorcycle training, students are assigned tougher maneuvers, including taking their bikes over obstacles such as two-by-fours. |
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Where noise complaints continue, new, tougher and more restrictive legislation is often enacted to assure that boaters will operate their boats quietly. |
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Out has gone the old, muddling approach, in has come good capital management methods, a tougher approach to diversification, and a commitment to boost returns. |
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The partner of a Blackburn man who plunged to his death from a town centre car park has appealed for tougher safety measures on East Lancashire's multi-storeys. |
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As life decisions go, it's a lot tougher than choosing between the traditional burr walnut and the gray-stained maple veneer for the interior of his Jaguar. |
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In fact, children of the famous are more likely to be critically pasted rather than approved, and the more successful the parent, the tougher it will be on their offspring. |
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Among the tools are a variety of ceramic and metallic composites that could provide a tougher, more heat-resistant skin for a next-generation space shuttle. |
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But the battle in global markets means hewing to tougher rules. |
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I'm learning that there is nothing weak, soft or pansified about love. It is stronger, tougher and more ballsy than a 70ft Guy called Bruce who eats concrete for breakfast. |
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Swiss representatives called for a tougher approach, with a phaseout of the primary production of mercury and an end to mercury surpluses re-entering the market. |
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It was a bit tougher going than the way up, feeling his way down. |
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I guarantee that my first race in Indy cars was way tougher than this. |
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The commission, which is responsible for ensuring standards of care in the NHS and the private sector, will also propose tougher controls on rogue cosmetic surgeons. |
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The Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, in a tougher than expected report on media intrusion into individuals' private lives, said action had to be taken. |
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When asked specifically about his songwriting inspiration, Partridge admits that as time goes by, it gets tougher to come up with new material to plunder. |
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But now that meat prices are easing, growth figures to be much tougher. |
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Depending on the state, P-plate holders are limited to when they can drive and who they can drive with, and face tougher demerit punishments for infringements. |
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He added that the trust was now gearing up for an even tougher target. |
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He said nothing, leading by example, pressing division generals for tougher combat missions during the day and giving orders to his captains with a smile at night. |
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That might be an even tougher assignment than his international gig. |
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Drinking green tea actually makes tooth enamel tougher and more resistant to corrosive acid foods, and there is evidence that it reduces liver damage. |
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But rolling back enviro regulation may be tougher than the GOP expects. |
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The Government must bring in tougher fines and give waste control agencies powers to move quickly against rogue dumpers, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday. |
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Getting loan against gold will now become tougher with the Reserve Bank of India further tightening rules for such disbursals. |
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Double boost as the EU gives approval to scrap mobile roaming charges and agrees tougher protection for travellers buying package holidays. |
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The song is edgier, rougher and tougher sounding than any rock, metal or gangster rap song in commercial radio history. |
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Traditionalists claim O-levels provide a tougher test, while modernisers suggest GCSEs provide a fairer measure of achievement. |
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The resulting casting, called a chilled casting, has the benefits of a hard surface with a somewhat tougher interior. |
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He was followed by Sublime resident Kev Wright, who delivered a tougher, techier set. |
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Slicers grown commercially for the North American market are generally longer, smoother, more uniform in color, and have a much tougher skin. |
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But are they really tougher? And if so, is there any connection between their manelessness and their ferocity? |
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While this 12-furlong assignment in Saint Cloud is tougher, Hannon thinks it is well worth a shot. |
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The Black Hawk's bifilar expandable pins, NSN 5315-01-112-2991, are tougher than nails to remove. |
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Many of the larger, tougher leaf species are terrestrials and lithophytes often in bright light. |
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Two Cardiff MPs say there should be tougher regulations to stop minors getting their hands on imitation weapons like BB guns. |
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Gers managed to avoid more legwork thanks to a thrilling finale and Grainger admits their win could make his side's task tougher. |
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Kynar, known generically as polyvinylidene difluoride, starts out as a tougher version of Saran plastic, or polyvinylidene dichloride. |
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In Brazil, airport development helps regional integration since vast distances make land travel tougher. |
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He achieved a drawn series against New Zealand but was given a tougher time by the touring Australians. |
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However, the extra row now allows for two-fingered power chords adding significantly to the difficulty as the game gets tougher. |
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The mother of a teenager killed by a drink-driver has called for tougher sentences for young road offenders. |
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Things become a lot tougher if the incumbent has to run as a write-in. |
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In what could be a sign of tougher times ahead for certain sectors of our industry, UPM, the Finnish papermaking giant, is reducing capacity. |
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The delicate skin of the genital and perianal areas, for example, is more easily breached than tougher skin on the hands. |
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This is much tougher, but under Dettori, Flying Officer is still lightly races and open to improvement. |
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Argentina were talented but preferred a tougher approach to the game, which saw them reduced to ten men. |
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Today, e-mail has made form letters both easier to send and tougher to spot. |
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Unfortunately for young people today, the gradate job market has never been tougher. |
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Jackie Speier has proposed tougher laws surrounding the packaging of liquid laundry detergent unit dose formats. |
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This is a lot tougher and she is yet another tearaway frontrunner who looks likely to be pressed too hard here. |
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It features a low turning circle, Z cam self adjusting brakes, tougher off-highway pattern tyres and a higher ground clearance. |
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There's a tougher tone, a more adventurous groping of atonality, hardness and riffing complexity. |
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Sometimes that takes your spirit away, and sometimes it makes you tougher. |
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Japan's amended moneylending business law will be fully implemented next year, subjecting lenders to tougher restrictions. |
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Starting with 2011 model year vehicles, NHTSA will be using new crash test dummies, new tests, and new criteria, making it tougher to earn the highest ratings. |
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California needs to reevaluate whether its own environmental standards, which usually are tougher than federal standards, have been set unrealistically or unscientifically. |
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The 2012 Olympic superheavyweight champion had easily stopped of his previous 12 opponents but American loudmouth Johnson was expected to be tougher. |
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Cloth and leather watchbands soak up odors and are tougher to keep clean. |
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As they get older the meat will become stringier and tougher. |
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Fine grains of ferrite yield high strength, and the distribution of austenite and ferrite together make ADI more ductile and tougher than conventional irons. |
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The teams are a lot tougher and you have to play hard and not let up. |
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A WATCHDOG has called for tougher action against so-called nuisance call number spoofing, warning that their increasing use was undermining the UK's caller ID system. |
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Results of notched and un-notched Charpy impact test results showed that Radilon A RV500RW 339 NER is up to 30 percent tougher than the other material tested. |
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The tougher standard eventually could require affected industries to install additional pollution controls to reduce particulate matter emissions. |
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In 2016 the law was amended to impose tougher penalties on those convicted of performing the procedure, pegging the highest jail term at 15 years. |
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On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table. |
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He started off last season fantasticly and, while things in general may have made things a little tougher for him this season, he goes about everything in the right way. |
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By cutting down foul territory to add seats, the Dodgers will make it tougher, because some balls that previously were pop-up foul outs will now go into the seats. |
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Equid teeth also evolved from browsing on soft, tropical plants to adapt to browsing of drier plant material, then to grazing of tougher plains grasses. |
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The unmarried daughter of a tractor driver, she is considered by Western televiewers in Moscow to look not unlike Ingrid Bergman, although a little tougher. |
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David Coulthard had a tougher start to the 2008 campaign due to poor qualifying, but a 3rd place at Canada gave Red Bull their first podium since the 2007 European Grand Prix. |
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There are tougher, techier mixes by Felix Baumgartner and Caged Baby. |
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The species is in danger of dying out as tougher animals, such as lions and hyenas, force cheetahs off protected land on African wildlife reserves. |
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He's starting to roughhouse a little more and play a little tougher. |
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These composites often are tougher, lighter, more impact resistant and more easily formable than the metal, glass, wood and other materials they replace. |
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Shishas have been banned on health grounds, alongside other forms of smoking, with the Health Ministry campaigning for tougher measures against the habit for years. |
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We'll probably see a transition from really diverse reefs to reefs with fewer species that are tougher, weedier species that can deal with these dramatic conditions. |
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Still others recommend pouring ammonia along the route to trick the masked procyonids into thinking some bigger, tougher animal has barged in on the territory. |
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