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• 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
• Sacramento needs to get tougher on these adult temper tantrums.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• Over 100 former world leaders urged Biden this week to get tough on Iran.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 26 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Californians broadly support Proposition 36 to get tough on crime, a new poll finds.
  — Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
• In recent months, Califf has urged the Biden administration to get tough on tobacco companies.
  — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 15 Nov. 2021
• 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
• California and Los Angeles County are getting tougher on crime.
  — Koko Nakajima, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
• Angry voters are responding by electing pragmatic prosecutors — attorneys who vow to get tough on crime and restore law and order.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Both political parties are increasingly aligned on the need to get tougher on China and Chinese companies.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune Asia, 16 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• The latest from California Washington is getting tough on China.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• During the first administration, however, there was also a clear strategy to get tough on China, led by Robert Lighthizer.
  — Kelly Evans, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025
• The failure to indict adds to a mounting record that shows grand juries made up of local Washington residents refusing to sign off on the administration’s bid to get tough on local crime.
  — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Others wanted the government to revive US manufacturing, while ditching free trade and getting tougher on China.
  — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• During his reelection campaign last fall, the mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, criticized his challenger for suggesting the city should get tougher on the homeless population.
  — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 4 Mar. 2026
• 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
• The Food and Drug Administration intends to get tougher on vaccine approvals, as top officials raised concerns about the risk of COVID vaccines for children.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 29 Nov. 2025
• Vowing to get tougher on lax retailers, the Biden administration in 2021 announced a far stricter policy in which even one serious violation would result in the ATF moving to revoke a license.
  — Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 11 Dec. 2023
• The governor has responded to comments Trump made earlier this week that if Boston did not get tough on crime, the president would recommend that FIFA move matches out of Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, 30 miles south of the city.
  — Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025