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Some years ago, I was involved as a facilitator in some very tough talks between the leaders of Russia and the leaders of Chechnya.
That's why in negotiations, often, when things get tough, people go for walks in the woods.
And it's a tough way to live.
I joined the Indian Police Service as a tough woman, a woman with indefatigable stamina, because I used to run for my tennis titles, etc.
This is about tough policing, equal policing.
In the process of preparing this, we looked at how some other cultures around the world deal with this period of time, because here in the Western world, less than 50 percent of us live near our family members, which I think is part of why this is such a tough period.
They were tough football players doing what they love, which was crushing skulls and separating shoulders on the football field.
But the under-underdog hangs tough, and 22 miles into a 26-mile race, there is Derartu Tulu, up there with the lead pack.
It is very tough.
HA: Yes, I was working in a tough situation, very dangerous.
DM: She's very tough; it's most challenging.
How did you handle that balance between being the tough diplomatic and strong voice of this country to the rest of the world and also how you felt about yourself as a mother, a grandmother, nurturing ... and so how did you handle that?
And then I put the really tough question: "How many of you hand-wash your jeans and your bedsheets?"
And I learned that you have to give that in this environment, because it's tough.
MS: But is it a tough sell because of the film or a tough sell because of me?
So just like Johnny Cash's Sue, a boy given a girl's name, I would grow up and learn from experience how to be tough and how to survive, when they were no longer there to protect me, or just take it all away.
And so when the going got really tough in the polio eradication program about two years ago, when people were saying, "We should call it off," the Polio Partnership decided to buckle down once again and try and find innovative new solutions, new ways to get to the children that we were missing again and again.
Now we're in tough times economically.
So the tough ones: going to get the top of Nigeria finished and getting Pakistan finished.
They're going to be the tough ones.
This was after 9/11; the city was in tough times.
First, I should have commended him for asking tough questions.
So I know it may sound like tough love, but look, if at some point you got lied to, it's because you agreed to get lied to.
And believe me, when the door is closed and the cameras are off, it's tough.
We don't really know why scytodes needs such a tough dragline, but it's unexpected results like this that make bio-prospecting so exciting and worthwhile.
And where do we go where the going gets tough?
So that's a sort of tough choice.
To love her and myself hard with forgiveness and compassion, with tough love and with generosity.
It's just too tough.
She was tough, she was strong, she was powerful.
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