41.   He said the FCC should take a tough line toward encouraging foreign competition in its review.

42.   If American antitrust officials take a tough line, they will strengthen the resolve of their counterparts in other countries to do the same.

43.   In a separate meeting with the journalists, Information Minister Mohammed Salman took a similarly tough line.

44.   In London Saturday, Prime Minister Tony Blair backed a tough line against Hussein.

45.   Israeli papers have reported that Clinton and Albright have both told Netanyahu that they need him to implement Wye in order to keep a tough line on Iraq.

46.   It maintains a tough line on abortion and rejects special rights for gays and homosexuals.

47.   Japan, which is several hundred miles from North Korea, has been a steady ally of the United States in taking a tough line against the communist regime.

48.   Lawyers for the church, however, do not always take a tough line with plaintiffs.

49.   Monti has suggested that he will take a tough line, perhaps because of residual resentment of WorldCom for the way it handled its merger with MCI.

50.   Most Russian politicians favor a tough line against Chechnya, where hundreds of Russians and foreigners are believed to be held hostage by ransom-taking abduction rings.