In other cases, the councils recommendations are likely to be more relaxed on an annual basis than current EU rules.

We have to be tough sometimes.

But harsh words have not been followed by a strong counter attack.

Putin has tried coercion and been met with increasingly tough sanctions.

Gravely concerned about the severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian persons and goods,

Naturally some things were easier to get Ian to lick, some were pretty tough.

Tax evasion is usually confronted in two ways audits and harsh sanctions.

For example, people may see an inevitable tradeoff between tough environmental standards and jobs.

The soft issues of environment and climate will become the hard and strategic issues of the twenty first century.

The United Nations estimates that security forces have suffered 15,000 fatalities, and the opposition 10,000, and that 45,000 civilians have died in the last two years of fighting.

Indeed, some opposition tactics are as brutal as those of the Syrian regime.

Among emerging economies, China could face a hard landing by late 2014 if critical structural reforms are postponed, and the other BRICs need to turn away from state capitalism.

The eurozone and the UK remain mired in recessions made worse by tight monetary and fiscal policies.

This paranoid Islam, represented by hard line outfits like the Tablighi Jamaat, is Pakistan s fastest growing brand of faith.

The third drops, the fourth, the fifth.

Indeed, in pausing to reflect, governments have not missed the political opportunity to be tough, nor have financial markets regained the upper hand.

According to Erdoğan, the struggle for women's rights has been tied for too long to rigid concepts, one of those being the concept of equality.

Did you understand? More or less.

Did you understand? More or less.

Smaller steps, however, can and should be taken.

There are a lot less expensive and less intrusive ways to do this.

The therapy was less efficient for older dogs.

In 1999, Turkey did not want to become an accession candidate, because its leaders thought that the conditions would be too tough.

Both McCain and Obama possess impressive hard power political and organizational skills otherwise, they would not be where they are today.

Bush s reaction is less predictable.

The Chinese were less ideological.

Intervention is even less plausible.

But some people fight corruption more successfuly than others.

Others are less impressed.

And yet,

Did you understand? More or less.

Did you understand? More or less.

But the enrichment provided by the humanities was no less enduring, though its subtler nature makes it harder to track.

The evolutionary utility of the beauty of physical laws is somewhat less obvious, but no less real.

In fact, R2P is more about struggles over political legitimacy and soft power than it is about hard international law.

Under these circumstances, crises could be even greater, and the adjustments harsher as occurred under the last world currency, the gold standard.

Accordingly, if tougher sanctions prove to be useful, they will do so by confronting Iran with a united diplomatic front, thereby encouraging its government to make a deal in order to end the country s isolation.

The new sanctions simply are not severe enough to intimidate Iran into submission, and more restrictive ones would not pass muster within the Security Council.

But the outcome is far less clear.

Yet it has happened.

Religious minorities have become more insecure.

Something a bit more free, less constrained.

Tidak masalah apapun bentuk atau kemasannya, yang penting adalah hasilnya.

The second scenario is far less benign.

There is hope, though.