Maybe young women are afraid of being rejected, but they have to toughen up.
Heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar is eager to learn how to toughen up its bulldozers and tractors.
Primary battles toughen up the nominee for the fiercer attacks of the general election to come.
It is calling for police and electoral officers to toughen up procedures ahead of elections next year.
For Coach, it was a rough, racist world and the boys might as well toughen up early.
Rich American parents, it seems, try to toughen up their children by making them do household chores.
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Nurses are stepping up their campaign to get ministers to toughen up the regulation of healthcare support staff in England.
The administration has also signalled further measures to weaken some environmental protection legislation, and to toughen up legislation on welfare reform.
There are also moves to toughen up American law in this area.
It either waited much too long to toughen up on the inspections or it's doing them unnecessarily, costing airlines millions in lost revenue.
Mr. DRELL: We're going to have to toughen up some of the restrictions in the Non-Proliferation Treaty so that we can verify compliance.
His dad's idea of how to toughen up his only son was to insist that Robert not wear gloves at work in winter.
The US wants Mr ElBaradei to toughen up and report Iran to the UN Security Council for trying to hide its nuclear activities.
At the same time Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has moved to toughen up anti-piracy legislation to include the ability to remove persistent file-sharers from the net.
In the New Asian Economy, both profits and fears are on the rise as markets open up, customers trade up and competitors toughen up.
On February 24th Mr Wolfowitz sought to toughen up the debt relief for the Republic of Congo, an oil-rich African country with a notoriously kleptocratic elite.
Second, there is some bemusement that the Financial Services Authority didn't slightly toughen up the bonus restrictions agreed by European regulators when interpreting them for London.
Along with many people here, he feels the problem is "the kids who think they can get away with murder" and thinks the police need to toughen up their stance.
Daly still holds the tournament record for lowest score with his 2001 winning total of 27-under-par 261, but since then, organizers have thickened the Munich Eichenried rough to toughen up the course.
There have also been calls to toughen up security checks on foreign students after it was revealed most of the Pakistani nationals arrested in Wednesday's raids had travelled to the UK on student visas.
Perhaps I need to toughen up on them.
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So, the best thing that could happen to Obama is to be snubbed by much of Wall Street, toughen up, and knowing the score, stick to his guns at a fairer deal for everyone.
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We need to raise the Social Security age, toughen up disability standards to reflect 21st-century jobs, limit out-of-control medical testing and cut drug costs so that the U.S. is not the highest-paying nation.
"That does not work, particularly if it makes the prisons overcrowded, unresponsive places where they toughen up and meet some rougher friends and then are released to fend for themselves in the outside world, " he told MPs.
Ms Phillips said that politics was "a very tough world" to work in for both men and women and while sexual harassment should not be tolerated she emphasised that "you do have to toughen up a little bit".
Regardless, the two sides of the spectrum debate already like the idea, as it could both prevent complaints by carriers of ambush regulation as well as toughen up rules that critics say hands too large a slice of the airwaves to the incumbents.
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Pam MacKinnon, a director whose past work I have greatly admired, has failed to toughen up the flabbiness of the script, and certain members of the cast, Ms. Kirk in particular, give overly obvious performances for which she must also take part of the rap. (Not so Mr. Wood and Ms. Parisse, who are their usual excellent selves.) Daniel Ostling's set looks as though it were made of cardboard.
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Mr Brown will also ruffle business feathers with his plans to toughen-up competition law.
"I wanted to toughen her up and give her a modern sensibility, " Mr Straczynski said.
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