41.   During her eight years as attorney general, she gained a reputation for being tough as nails on crime, promoting changes to shorten death penalty appeals.

42.   Fillies are considered not as big or as tough as colts and generally do not mix well with them on the race track.

43.   Finding a key pass completion in the Kansas State-Nebraska game was as tough as finding a chardonnay vendor at a NASCAR race.

44.   Few of them would be as tough as the defectors.

45.   For Hatchette, just getting on the field, getting past Moss and Carter, seemed as tough as pushing a needle through a brick.

46.   From all outward appearances, this novel is going to be tough as nails.

47.   Getting the public to buy stock market index products right now is about as tough as getting kids to buy cotton candy at the circus.

48.   Gnarled and bent, much like the mesquite tree that shades him, Moreno looks as tough as the land he farms.

49.   He is self-deprecating, folksy, tough as nails.

50.   He can be as tough as the cowboy boots that one of his companies sells.