1.   Being a dedicated tough cookie, he has delivered the goods in impressive manner.

2.   Mr Kinnock is clearly a tough cookie.

3.   Now, women on television are depicted as tough cookies who need a man like a fish needs a trouser press.

4.   Self-assured, positive and verging on bossy, Paula Hamilton is a tough cookie.

5.   But earlier you were saying that women who come to Oxford are tough cookies.

6.   Some of the women who come here are tough cookies.

7.   Amos, red-haired and pixielike, is one tough cookie.

8.   Fully transformed from Hollywood cupcake to tough cookie, Ms. Stone has more than proven how persuasively she can act, especially in such bitterly hard-edged roles.

9.   Given the literary opportunity, Blanchard would probably pen herself as a tough cookie with a sweet spot.

10.   If businesspeople and fans do not like the Seattle Mariners, tough cookies.