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Example sentences for: tough

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For a second straight day, Iraq anti-aircraft fire drew a tough U.S. response.
And so we still scapegoat RN for all the sins of the era to avoid having to ask tough questions about what really happened to Indochina, and to America, when Hanoi and the Khmer Rouge were permitted to have their way with people whom we'd pledged to protect (and almost succeeded in protecting).
Other tough migrants from the South Seas settled along the coasts — sailors, fishermen, traders (for the most part pirates) — known euphemistically as orang laut (sea people).
USA Today leads with the tough prison sentence given to an ex-aide to Mike Espy and what it might mean to the dramatis personae of the Clinton sex scandal.
The country approved Trudeau’s tough reaction; invoking the War Measures Act, he sent in 10,000 troops and arrested 468 militants.