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Example sentences for: tough

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The usually fatuous Tom Brokaw outdid himself when he rated the century--it was a tough one, he blathered, with two world wars, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust, but there was also the triumph of the space program.
But aside from beer logos and a few other popular corporate insignias, neon was a tough mass-market sell, despite competitors' efforts to break new markets.
The Times of London was equally tough.
But mainstream cinema, which insists on heroes who are both square and hip, has a tough time exploring the paradox that virtue is a great charisma killer.
Also, as Gergen and other pundits point out, Bush may have a tough time squaring his own past drug use with his image as a law-and-order tough who supports stiffer sentencing guidelines for convicted drug offenders.