"stiff" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- New, stiffer sanctions went into effect at midnight on Saturday.
- Western countries have not shown the unanimity that would be required to reimpose stiff economic sanctions, for instance.
- Serbia's economy is already in ruins, and its people have appeared resigned in recent days to even stiffer sanctions.
- But if the violence continues, will the Clinton Administration rightly insist on stiffer sanctions?
- The panel would have its own investigators and the power to impose stiff sanctions.
- If that were to happen, the United States would surely retaliate with stiff sanctions of its own.
- These are the very kind of lawyers who would be discouraged by the prospect of stiff sanctions, she said.
- Drunken drivers in some states face stiff new sanctions.
- The harsh threats of stiff sanctions against wayward states have deterred no one.
- But President Clinton's advisers played down the importance of the deadline, and they did not say when stiffer sanctions might go into effect.
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