It has lobbied against proposals to toughen the law on cold calling and doorstep selling. |
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He could also pressure the state's congressional delegation to toughen the federal law. |
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Maybe the Augusta National is right about wanting to toughen up some of the par-4 holes with more length and doglegs and bunkering. |
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I'd been putting surgical spirit on my feet to toughen the skin, and I ran out of it. |
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He favours an approach that would toughen regulations on internet service providers, which are already obliged to filter out offensive material. |
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Because of its low fat content, goat meat will lose moisture and can toughen quickly if exposed to high temperatures and dry cooking methods. |
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The food to be poached must be fully immersed in the liquid and not allowed to boil otherwise it can toughen the most delicate protein. |
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According to testimony from the man's wife and sister-in-law, he did this to toughen the boy up, make a man out of him. |
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Like anyone moving to the big bad world of a city, they have had to toughen up. |
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The state senate is currently considering a bill that would toughen penalties for cockfighting and dog fighting. |
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So to toughen resolve and get US consumption, production and employment back on a more predictable track, they have gone for broke. |
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Raising her head high, Julia decides to toughen herself and be firm with Cassie. |
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And those who are admonishing us to harden up, toughen up, I think we need to listen to that. |
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But the federal government has moved to toughen its stance on people smuggling even further. |
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Ironically, in an era where global trade is trying to achieve unrestricted expansion, these recommendations will toughen border regulations. |
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Must dash now, need to soak my feet in vinegar to toughen them up. |
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Valdes-Rodriguez is dating a New Mexico cowpoke who is attempting to toughen up her son. |
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We need to toughen up the legislation and give the tools to our RCMP and police services across the country. |
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Part of that bill is to toughen up the sentences on the operation of grow ops, and that is what we need to do. |
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It votes against a bill to toughen up the sentences for people who traffic in children in this country. |
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This is the government that is trying to toughen up laws to protect women and children in Canada. |
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The United Nations Security Council has now given Canada 90 days to toughen up its refugee system. |
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It was important to avoid competition between those countries trying to toughen up immigration legislation. |
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But I have to toughen up and go back in the streets again, because that's the only way. |
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Keaton stars as Alfred Butler, a pampered epicure whose wealthy father sends him on a camping trip to toughen him up. |
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Yet Mrs Gandhi conspicuously spurned a chance to toughen her support for the deal at a Congress shindig on November 17th. |
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The finding also leaves in place laws that ban bikies from the tattoo and building trades and toughen bail provisions. |
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Finally, they will strengthen enforcement of government financial guidelines and toughen penalties for the misuse of taxpayers' money. |
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If we are to protect our national security, we have to toughen them up and push them out. |
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As governments toughen pesticide legislation, conventional lawn maintenance methods grow more and more obsolete. |
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Plainly, the time has come to toughen the regulations governing the international trade in ivory. |
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Their rejection comes despite plans in England, unveiled last week, to toughen the law, giving householders the right to take on burglars without fear of prosecution. |
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Coupled with steps taken this week to toughen gun laws, the move is seen as an effort to get new legislation on the books ahead of federal elections in September. |
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This year, pro-choice activists rallied with greater urgency than usual, feeling that a Republican White House and Congress will toughen abortion laws. |
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First, it would toughen up our borders and provide more customs officers there. |
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Finally, after reading a redraft and suggesting that we change one item to toughen our position, he headed for the door with our final offer in hand. |
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The Home Office confirmed that provisions to toughen the gun laws could be added to the Criminal Justice and Sentencing Bill currently before Parliament. |
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The Government will toughen the rules on broadcast advertising of alcohol to tackle binge drinking, and work with the drinks industry through a voluntary scheme. |
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Perhaps they are planning to toughen up the bill, not in the shadows of committee but in the sunshine of open debate. |
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While we celebrate our progress in 2009, we must toughen our resolve not to back off one iota. |
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Kaptur sponsored a bill in the House of Representatives to toughen the Agricultural Fair Practices Act, which protects farmers in bargaining groups from retribution. |
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The Government of Canada will toughen the laws around the financing of political parties and candidates to reduce the opportunity to exert influence through large donations. |
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I think it very clearly shows that the government, as he stated in his speech, is doing everything it can to toughen up on crime and to provide security to more Canadians. |
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They're now slipping back into their old ways. And the use of this kind of gear is probably what will be next if we don't seriously toughen up on what's going on. |
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But after major scandals in the 1970s, governments began to toughen up. |
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Consequently, it has had to toughen up, improve its discipline and the professionalism of its soldiers. |
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In 2003, the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology concluded its study on gas prices by making two recommendations to the government: create a petroleum monitoring agency and toughen up the Competition Act. |
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The conditioning process will help to toughen up his feet but there are limits. |
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The FIDES party, a member of the grouping of European people's parties, has refused to toughen up laws intended to combat nationalism and radicalism more effectively. |
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If you let your skin dry out, it can toughen and become dull. |
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We must also hunt out traffickers from their networks with intelligence and specialised forces, and at the same time toughen up criminal laws in the destination countries. |
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Far from backing off on this, health groups across Canada have urged the government to toughen up the regulation, which was proposed many months ago. |
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The Liberal failure to tackle grow ops, the Liberal failure to provide enforcement capacity, and its failure to toughen up the Criminal Code are all reasons why crime is rampant. |
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In general terms, I supported those amendments that tend to toughen the wording of the proposals, and these have frequently been adopted, so the result seems not too bad in this respect. |
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It will also toughen the application process for already sentenced lifers with the right to apply for faint hope by setting a higher judicial screening test. |
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At least we were able to ensure that Burma's human rights record was discussed in plenary session in ASEM and to toughen up the sanctions regime against Burma in the Council. |
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Tsipursky stressed the importance of commitment to toughen up willpower and be able to achieve goals. |
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That is why the New Democratic Party voted to toughen up gun crimes. |
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There is a clamor now in the political classes to toughen the laws. |
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On the other side of the political fence, the influential Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan called for a pre-election pact with Ukip and demanding the Foreign Office toughen its renegotiation stance on Europe. |
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What does he think about the need to increase the resources of the RCMP and the need to toughen up those drug laws and our criminal justice system as the family members of those fallen RCMP have asked for? |
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Should we toughen and change transport legislation? |
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That is why our government made it a priority when we were elected to introduce the federal Accountability Act and to ensure it included measures to toughen up the lax Liberal rules around lobbying. |
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The EU is consistently pushing countries like China to enforce anti-counterfeiting legislation and to toughen the legal penalties for intellectual property theft. |
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Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday defended moves to toughen up Britain's anti-terrorism regime. |
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The Standing Committee's report in turn followed on the report of the Westray Mine Public Inquiry, which called on the Government to toughen the legislation so as to increase corporate accountability for workplace accidents. |
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I saw it as a natural way of creating aggression and making sure they would toughen up. |
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However, they are also regulated businesses, and for the reasons set out above, special provisions have been added to toughen the governance rules in their industry. |
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In autumn, spike the lawn to aerate it, rake out old dead grass and topdress with compost then feed with low nitrogen lawn feed to toughen grass up for the winter. |
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