Some of the women who come here are tough cookies.

I know him as a guy who's a tough cookie late in the game.

I have a feeling she's a very tough little cookie, and that we're not going to like what we find.

He was a really tough cookie and it paid off for me.

They tell me down here that you're a tough cookie.

Maybe she'd have a girl, one more tough cookie to continue the family tradition.

There is a good reason we have to be "a little like tough cookies" at times.

One might say I can be quite a tough cookie to crack.

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

I'm a tough cookie, but I was just so miserable.

It's a difficult proposition, but one I believe necessary to keep us safe.

This was a difficult proposition - physically and financially - for many.

Therefore, turning it into an art museum is a rather difficult proposition.

It would have made being a Lollard a very difficult proposition.

Actually, most of that time was spent on theory; learning how to do it isn't a difficult proposition.

"Probably the most difficult proposition was in '95-96," Jackson said near the end of the regular season.

The Hashomi were going to be a more difficult proposition.

A number of reasons make that a difficult proposition to count on, however.

Yet, new construction is always a difficult proposition in Manhattan.

Starting a foreign business in Japan had been a difficult proposition for many years, but things are changing now.

South Africa, a young and improving side, were a far tougher proposition.

In some ways, a man is a tougher proposition than a piece of steel.

I'm afraid this is going to be a tough proposition,' she began at once.

From a practical standpoint, this thing is a tough proposition.

Hitting in general has been a tough proposition for the Mariners.

Now, though he doesn't know it, he's up against a tough proposition.

That would be a tough proposition because of the teachers' union's considerable influence in Albany.

"I understand you're up against a pretty tough proposition."

Until we become a union, it's a really tough proposition.

The numbers make that look like a tough proposition.