The Obama administration may believe that toughness directed at China will generate electoral support in the US.

Bailey needed to have a strength and a toughness that was not at the expense of her being womanly.

First, finance ministers tried to reassure markets last October by demonstrating toughness and endorsing headline, instead of cyclically adjusted, deficit targets.

Now I'm going to mark on the toughness values for nylon fiber, bombyx or domesticated silkworm silk wool, Kevlar, and carbon fibers.

This will all translate, inevitably, into calls for more toughness toward North Korea less diplomacy and more sanctions, punitive measures, and isolation.

The common man, rooted in the real world, supposedly knows better uncompromising toughness, the hard line, is the only way to get results.

If you look right here at the two red arrows, they point to the toughness values for the draglines of nephila clavipes and araneus diadematus.

Whereas many regard Israel s toughness as its principal characteristic, India s own citizens view it as a soft state, its underbelly easily penetrated by determined terrorists.

His bravery in combat attests to his patriotism, courage, and toughness, but his judgment has been found sorely lacking time and time again over his career.

More importantly, through its numerous rescues of sovereign states, the IMF has acquired expertise in debt restructuring, while developing a reputation for toughness and impartiality, which would be very useful in these situations.

It's the combination of strength, extensibility and toughness that makes spider silk so special, and that has attracted the attention of biomimeticists, so people that turn to nature to try to find new solutions.

Toughness? Well, we was in West Jordan, Utah, and this bull shoved my face right through the metal shoots in a you know, busted my face all up and had to go to the hospital.

He's a Republican I won't say anything about my party affiliation, but anyway so this is my dear, dear Brent Williams, and this is on toughness, in case anybody needs to know about being tough for the work that you do. I think there's a real lesson in this.

Journalist Nora Younis, Editor in Chief of Al Manassa, tells me the hashtag is a riff on the Egyptian saying السجن للجدعان or prison is for the gallant , referring to the toughness of imprisonment, as well as the fact that it is often prisoners of conscience behind bars.