tough area

Once a week, my father's route took him through the toughest areas of Brooklyn.

Without advisers, the Iraqi forces will pull out of the tough areas.

Back then, the East Village was a tough area, he said.

"I had this idealistic notion of wanting to help kids in a tough area."

"He had a tire company in the tough area of Knoxville.

The jet set lifestyle is a long way from her upbringing in a tough area of south London.

Then he ran his hand a little lower, and the soft smooth skin gave way to a rougher, tough area.

Rev. Barr could not have picked a tougher area in which to start his career as a minister.

It was a tough area but it was a school that changed lives.

It's supposedly a tough area to get a job in, and if that's the only work you're willing to consider then I think that's wrong.

"This was a very tough area, with drugs, prostitutes - the sort of place you wouldn't want to walk through.

"The area is a tough area," he added, "and people are not used to moving out of the homes.

Julie, who taught at a local school in a notoriously rough, tough area of the city, shrugged her shoulders.

'Yes, and I still fly in a tough area.

"We've come across tougher areas," he told his brother, "but we always had the good sense to avoid them instead of trying to cut through them."

We have been talking to retailers and they are saying that the tough area is the middle ground, value and luxury are doing well.

The first was a mixed secondary-modern in Garston, a tough area of the city.

Often the answer defied the goal, with some academies surely galvanising failing schools in tough areas.

A tough area of work.

Sometimes when he really gets stuck playing a game, one of the 'staff/interns' will offer their help to get him past a tough area.

It's a pretty tough area.

In the toughest areas for other would-be members - inefficient small farmers, pollution and corruption - Slovenia does relatively well.

"I think it's a tough area if you're not prepared to be an activist," Mr. Whitman said.

Antuofermo learned how to fight in the tough areas of New York City.

In tougher areas, the Nation of Islam provides security men, some in bow ties and suits.