And when the going gets tough, he is usually the very first of the tough to get going, inspiring and leading others to do the same.

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Given the auction houses' continuing woes, these sellers may find it tough to get the bidding going.

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When the going gets tough, the tough get into nonprofits.

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Indeed, it seems almost axiomatic that when the going gets tough for US administrations, administration officials get tough on Israel.

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But when things get tough, when as now, the prizes are bigger but the going is tougher, the weaklings are elbowed aside until they fall back and slip over the cliff.

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Get on with it and don't look to us in Cardiff every time the going gets tough.

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Three-quarters said their children made them keep going while getting treatment, and 71% said their partner motivated them to get through the tough times.

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There are some people, Chuck, who said we couldn't get -- it would be tough to do contracting and procurement reform, get that through Congress, though it looks like the Senate is probably going to finish that tonight and the House will pass that out of committee some time this week.

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Tough as it was to get the biggest companies from different industries to agree on a basic Bluetooth specification, it is going to be even harder to do the same for each application-specific standard from simple tasks such as controlling music players to complex hand-over rules needed between public-wireless networks and local cordless connections for phone calls.

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