Stricter corporate taxes were also adopted.

(The new, gentler IMF has sworn off such harsh conditionality for Greece.)

Financial capital can cross borders far more easily, and physical capital can relocate almost as quickly.

Deteriorating economic conditions at home implied stricter limits on American intervention abroad.

With tougher economic times inevitably come tougher positions toward foreign competition and outsourcing.

Making ever stronger promises on top of ever more failed promises is hardly the right way forward.

This was a tough and unpopular choice.

The company has hard and fast rules against lateness.

Better technologies have allowed the world economy to continue to grow despite tough resource constraints in the past.

Regulatory agencies need enforcement authority so that stricter rules can be implemented

The big question is whether it will be able to impose tougher environmental standards throughout the whole country.

First, tighter sanctions make sense only as a diplomatic tool, not as a blunt instrument of coercion. The new sanctions simply are not severe enough to intimidate Iran into submission, and more restrictive ones would not pass muster within the Security Council.

First, tighter sanctions make sense only as a diplomatic tool, not as a blunt instrument of coercion.

When we talk about the environment, we know tougher restrictions will mean better protection, but with higher costs.

Much tougher capital requirements for trading book exposures are therefore needed and will be brought forward as soon as possible.

Tougher sanctions can continue to delegitimize the regime, and Turkey might be persuaded to take stronger steps against its neighbor.

Both South Korea and China are reluctant to support robust sanctions.

Hard facts appear to support the international press depictions of Venezuela.

It imposed severe curbs on the industry in October.

Putin has demanded investigative agencies not to seize hard drives

Instead, they imposed harsh terms, hoping to weaken Germany permanently.

For Europe s energy future, today is the moment for tough decisions.

I should point out at this time I'm not a sculptor I'm a hard edged model maker.

Meeting adjourned until tougher words are invented.

Rigid rules and distant policymakers merely suffocate the animal spirits of the business class.

If the Muslim Brotherhood denied a ballot, or refused to accept defeat, tougher measures could then have been contemplated.

While the Western powers have embraced ever harsher sanctions, Russia and China view Iran as a tool in their global competition with the US.

Tougher economic sanctions will not force Iran to comply instead, sanctions will merely hit this oil and gas rich country s trading partners.

Israelis believe that Iran is galloping into the nuclear club, and will shrewdly use the prospect of talks with the US to pre empt tougher sanctions or a military strike.

Tough decisions were made, not least involving the energy sector.

The American president noted that initially he and the leader of the DPRK had held hardline positions.

ibnezra Israel responds to emergency Arab league meeting in Cairo with no statement or acknowledgement whatsoever. Meanwhile, Josh Shahryar jokes JShahryar Arab League had extremely tough words for Israel.

Washington has also resisted calls to relax tough international sanctions on North Korea.

As a staff reporter, there are always deadlines to meet with little time to write feature stories.

This agenda s interventionism is incremental tougher economic sanctions, demands that China exercise its influence, creation of a no fly zone, and military force against the Sudanese army.

That s why I have proposed much tougher measures in the revised Capital Requirements Directive amendments now being considered by the European Parliament. This will require thorough independent due diligence on securitizations, proper cash flow sensitivity analysis, and less reliance on credit rating agencies paid by issuers.

They may now seek a deeper connection to their Muslim identity, but, having learned to question authority, they are unlikely to accept rigid parental or Islamic traditions.

That s why I have proposed much tougher measures in the revised Capital Requirements Directive amendments now being considered by the European Parliament.

Romania is due to end its membership negotiations with the EU in 2004.

But heavy handed police repression launched a massive civic movement that has spread to the entire country.

They also want a more liberal social environment that would loosen restrictions on their dress, broaden access to cultural products like film and music, and enlarge press freedoms.

What will happen should crude strength and hard language prove inadequate to the task of insuring Russian national interests?

Yes, they are very hard, the Americans, they are voracious, they want undivided power over the world.

Vladimir Putin also said that investigators must be prohibited from confiscating servers and hard disks within companies.

For example, a United States Senate committee recently sought to block the planned liberalization of foreign takeover rules for airlines, while Europe has enacted more restrictive takeover laws.