Other leading tariff reformers were more tough-minded when it came to the question of what they could offer the agricultural community.
This is an important and tough-minded book, and one that despite its grim subject matter fizzes with ideas.
It will be tough-minded and mandate that the group of individuals below the mean be helped as much as possible.
Although there is a kind of tough-minded good sense about it that has a certain appeal, we are not convinced.
An imprecise threat of massive retaliation is an invitation to a tough-minded aggressor to call the bluff.
It is not merely being tough-minded in our tactics.
If any benefit needs to be subjected to a tough-minded review, it is invalidity benefit.
That problem must be tackled more rigorously and in a much more tough-minded way.