tough business

"It's a tough business and you've got to be ready, " Farmar explained with a dazed smile.

Confectionery is a tough business. But it does make it harder for Cadbury to take the high ground .

It's a tough business. Progress comes slow. And there are going to be difficult days ahead.

I spoke to dozens of Chinese merchants at Lyublino market this winter and many of them complained about how tough business is now.

"It's a tough business; it's hard for everyone, male or female, but we do have our own problems, " Lou said.

Mr Gandhi, a late-developer, meanwhile shows little interest in the tough business of policy.

Replacing petroleum with biofuels is a tough business.

It is a tough business but it doesn't mean that you won't survive if you're nice.

Huayi Brothers currently generates the majority of revenues from film and TV production, a notoriously tough business in China.

Urban living, the benefits of which I have long advocated in these pages, can be a tough business.

GM, Ford and Chrysler are better at talking their own book than making cars, which is a tough business.

But this is a tough business we're in, and it's a challenging world and most leaders get it.

One reason is that independent film is a tough business in any climate.

Mr. Huang , 41 years old, combined a tough business mind with a gambler's bravado and a knack for cultivating officials to engineer deals .