get tough with
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Chen, a former deputy L.A. mayor, has been demanding that insurance companies deliver what their clients paid for, and imploring state insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara to get tough with them.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2025
Ms Rayner vowed to "get tough" with developers who tried to "wriggle out" of their social obligations.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2023
The campaign is part of a larger strategy to get tough with Starbucks as contract negotiations have stalled.
From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2023
Then things get tough with a visit to No. 5 Notre Dame.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2022
For instance in 2011, she appeared with Marvin Kalb at the National Press club and suggested that the US needed to get tough with Pakistan:
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2021
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