"tough" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This is particularly true since the authorities began a tough crackdown two years ago on unauthorized pregnancies.
- The seizures came as Mayor Giuliani hinted that he might make the crackdown even tougher.
- But Beijing does not yield and in July ordered a "tough new crackdown" on the independence movement.
- The campaign in the streets of major cities is the toughest such crackdown since the Islamic revolution.
- As the A.P. notes, this could signal a tougher crackdown on activists, and more violence to come.
- Despite Wisconsin's famously tough crackdown on welfare, nonmarital births rose.
- His attempts to make Honduras safer led to a tough crackdown on gangs that saw many gang members put in jail.
- A tough crackdown on drunken drivers didn't hurt either.
- He was also accused of corruption by both conservatives and reformists, and known for tough crackdowns on dissent.
- The city's top elected officials are promising a tough crackdown.
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