Oil closed up $1.05 on Monday in response to the tough tone of the draft resolution.

By the door to the stairs, she took a tougher tone.

His remarks seemed a step back from the tough tone of recent days.

He started to speak again in the same tough, no-nonsense tone, but something in her eyes stopped him.

Mr. Klein's tough tone will serve him well, former colleagues say.

I also found that the tough, ideological tone so common in his editorials seemed to stay on the west side of the East River.

"This is a free country," Frank retorted, also speaking in a tough tone.

While the tough tone of the report surprised some officials, others said it was necesary to make the review credible.

This week allies have become increasingly critical of the administration's tough tone.

Nothing about her pregnancy, or how she deals with it, quite matches the tough but consistently clear tone of the earlier part of the film.