1.   At a joint appearance, Gore and Clinton offered tough rhetoric, suggesting they would not countenance weak measures to reduce the threat of global warming.

2.   Both sides issued some tough rhetoric.

3.   Bush did that despite some tough rhetoric from Alexander leading up to the Iowa Straw Poll in August.

4.   By using tough rhetoric and trade sanctions, the Clinton administration may be trying to placate isolationist Republicans and labor Democrats, Letiche said.

5.   But Yeltsin, never particularly skilled at managing the machinery of government, cannot remedy the problems with tough rhetoric alone.

6.   Many endangered GOP members of Congress also survived by modifying previous tough anti-government rhetoric with lavish pledges of tax relief and other goodies for voters.

7.   President Bush approached the problem at first with tough rhetoric.

8.   Regrettably Kantor and Clinton have fostered that trend with tough rhetoric.

9.   Republican strategists predict there will be a public backlash or at least fodder for tough anti-Gore rhetoric.

10.   The tough rhetoric set the stage for the meeting between Bush and Sharon, their fourth in the year since Bush took office.