How to Use get tough on in a Sentence

get tough on

idiomatic phrase

• The state needs to get tougher on drug dealers and get hard substances off of our streets.
  — Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
• Over 100 former world leaders urged Biden this week to get tough on Iran.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 26 May 2023
• Trump has urged Mexico to get tougher on drug smuggling.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2024
• Sacramento needs to get tougher on these adult temper tantrums.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• And his pledges to get tough on crime resonated in a country with one of the world’s highest rates of violent crime.
  — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2021
• Trump has made TikTok the central example of his campaign to get tough on China.
  — Zheping Huang, Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• But even if getting tough on Big Tech is one of the few things on which both Democrats and Republicans agree, the fact that there hasn’t been a major crackdown yet is telling.
  — Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
• That comes up now and still because the NFL has decided to get tough on this issue, with players, coaches, support people and media.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 27 July 2021
• And even in cities without a competitive mayor’s race, the question of how to get tough on crime and bolster public safety has emerged as a defining issue.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
• Both parties are vying to produce the strongest rhetoric about getting tough on Beijing and restricting its global role.
  — Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, 1 Aug. 2024
• Both candidates in this week’s race had pledged to get tougher on Beijing, with Trump promising tariffs of 60 percent on all Chinese goods coming into the country.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 6 Nov. 2024
• The city got tough on homelessness in 2023 after years of doing little to battle it because previous city councils tied the hands of law enforcement.
  — Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
• In recent months, Califf has urged the Biden administration to get tough on tobacco companies.
  — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 15 Nov. 2021
• The Biden administration's new rule puts every American company with 100 or more employees in the same boat: All must get tough on their workers.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
• Californians broadly support Proposition 36 to get tough on crime, a new poll finds.
  — Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
• The tariffs were part of a campaign promise to get tough on China, which dominates solar-panel manufacturing, and to boost the U.S. industry.
  — Brian Eckhouse, Bloomberg.com, 24 Oct. 2020
• Washington largely turned a blind eye to let American investors profit from China’s leading firms, but that could be coming to an end as Washington looks to get tough on China.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 8 July 2022
• Both political parties are increasingly aligned on the need to get tougher on China and Chinese companies.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune Asia, 16 July 2024
• After Condé was ousted by Col. Mamady Doumbouya in 2021, the young leader of the country’s special forces signaled his willingness to get tough on foreign mining companies.
  — Rachel Chason and Chloe Sharrock, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
• After Condé was ousted by Col. Mamady Doumbouya in 2021, the young leader of the country’s special forces signaled his willingness to get tough on foreign mining companies.
  — Rachel Chason and Chloe Sharrock, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
• Gloria said the new local ordinance would get tough on people who refuse to accept help or move their tents, but still would take a compassionate and progressive enforcement approach.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• California and Los Angeles County are getting tougher on crime.
  — Koko Nakajima, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
• His appointment to the National Economic Council, which has been cheered by progressives and booed by the tech industry, is an early signal that the Biden administration plans to get tough on tech.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2021
• Lately streaming service news has been all about price hikes, the introduction of ads, getting tougher on password sharing, and even unreliable performance.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2023
• Others wanted the government to revive US manufacturing, while ditching free trade and getting tougher on China.
  — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024
• The latest from California Washington is getting tough on China.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• But responding to national crises by stoking jingoism and promising to get tough on our many enemies is a truly bipartisan habit.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2020
• The tariffs were a step toward following through on a campaign promise to get tough on China, which dominates solar panel manufacturing, and boost the U.S. industry.
  — Brian Eckhouse, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• Relations with China Legislators agree on the need to get tougher on China to counter its growing economic, scientific, and military clout.
  — Byjeffrey Mervis, science.org, 12 Nov. 2024
• The curfew also comes after President Donald Trump held a conference call with the nation’s governors urging them to get tough on violent protesters.
  — Steve Bittenbender, Washington Examiner, 2 June 2020