This was a tough and unpopular choice.

The company has hard and fast rules against lateness.

Stricter corporate taxes were also adopted.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

That seemingly endless emergency has resulted in the severe restriction, or even suspension, of individual and political liberties.

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.

NATO fixes hard limits on the autonomy of local political elites to do what they want.

For such disclosure to be effective, it must include robust rules with respect to political spending via intermediaries.

Even though Saami customs prioritise nature above all else, it s the traditional ways of fishing that are now most heavily restricted.

The biggest emitters of the twenty first century, including India and China, are unwilling to sign up to tough, costly emission targets.

Municipalities, often owing to corruption or poor management, are unable or unwilling to impose rigorous planning regulations.

If the IMF had not delivered the necessary money, severe capital controls would have been imposed.

The US Federal Reserve s tough new regulations on foreign banks have spurred the European Commission to threaten retaliation.

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

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.

Yes, the existence of religious fanatics eager to kill large numbers of innocent American civilians warrants strong measures in response.

Such legislation must also have rigid compliance standards that are reviewed and enforced by the state s electoral authorities and courts.

They choose their subordinates, so it is their responsibility to ask the hard questions about what is going on under their watch.

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

Everything seemed neatly tied up a fast timeframe, efficient, protocol, focused on economic themes, ending with her boarding her flight to Haiti.

If the current EU budget rules are too rigid and are ignored in the face of a shock, then the door is open for imprudent fiscal behavior.