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.

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

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.

Hopefully everybody? More than 10?

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.

But both the US and Europe have made it clear that Ukraine's sovereignty is not worth dying for, with the EU disinclined even to follow America's lead in imposing increasingly tough sanctions.

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

There, young voters are becoming angrier, more politically active, and increasingly hostile to the old established parties.

Vote buying became increasingly insufficient.

Employment is increasingly precariousness.

These consequences will only intensify.

But here things turn interesting.

Italians' ever emptier shopping basket

Everyone was more or less interested in the arts.

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.

As a result, Israel is in an increasingly difficult situation.

Our older populations have to cope with ever younger technology.

But over the years the blog became more and more politicized.

Islam in Malaysia is becoming much more politicized and radicalized.

The prospects of a stable future look increasingly dim.

As it happens, the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more meritocratic.

The financial markets encouraged consumers to borrow by introducing ever more sophisticated instruments and more generous terms.

The alliance forged in the Cold War will become increasingly fragile.

Indeed, Asian trade and commodity flows are increasingly interlinked.

In short, the world has become increasingly prone to financial turbulence.

More and more, privacy is being used to justify censorship.