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Definition of tough love in English: tough lovenoun mass noun1Promotion of a person's welfare, especially that of an addict, child, or criminal, by enforcing certain constraints on them, or requiring them to take responsibility for their actions. Example sentencesExamples - Knowing when to use tough love and when to use kid gloves with your players is a decidedly fine distinction, but one that sixth year Warriors coach Eric Ciezar is more than capable of making.
- But the truth is, it needs support and it needs our help and it needs our tough love also, in terms of trying to get it to reform and do the right things.
- Nevertheless, the girls didn't crumple when faced with Richardson's brand of tough love and the Lady Chieftans experienced astonishing growth.
- My teaching ethos is to adopt an approach of tough love.
- I thought it was tough love telling him to leave home but I really think it was tougher to go to the police.
- Drug Treatment and Testing Orders are tough love.
- It's alright, tough love is fine. It helps to keep my head on straight.
- The traditional image of a hospital matron is of a buxom battle-axe, administering tough love, 1950s style.
- I nearly called the firm Reality Life, because some of what we will be doing is tough love: getting people to think about what they have to do so they can make earlier and better choices.
- There's a boy with a silver spoon in his mouth, some best friends who give her support and tough love, a little sister to parent in the absence of a delinquent mother, and poverty.
- It may have been tough love, but was it a Christian thing to do to beat children in that way?
- She gave me a lot of tough love, but I really needed it.
- As so often happens, it requires tough love - an intense two-week regimen called constraint-induced movement therapy.
- Only tough love will cure them of this cancer that grows worse every year.
- But earlier this year I had to put my foot down, and engage in a bit of tough love.
- Christianity is about tough love, not love that is sentimental or permissive.
- This kind of tough love is particularly important with younger claimants.
- Thus, we either let down our minority officers by failing to administer tough love or we retreat into the safety of formal processes.
- The closest thing my folks got to controlling me was called tough love.
- Sometimes you have to use tough love to make it happen.
- 1.1North American A political policy designed to encourage self-help by restricting state benefits.
Example sentencesExamples - So, Allen asks, Taft is recommending tough love?
- In the conservative world view, this is just tough love.
- And indeed, when tough love means, temporarily, more starving babies, it's hard to get enthusiastic.
Definition of tough love in US English: tough lovenounˌtəf ˈləvˌtəf ˈləv 1Promotion of a person's welfare, especially that of an addict, child, or criminal, by enforcing certain constraints on them, or requiring them to take responsibility for their actions. Example sentencesExamples - But the truth is, it needs support and it needs our help and it needs our tough love also, in terms of trying to get it to reform and do the right things.
- Thus, we either let down our minority officers by failing to administer tough love or we retreat into the safety of formal processes.
- Knowing when to use tough love and when to use kid gloves with your players is a decidedly fine distinction, but one that sixth year Warriors coach Eric Ciezar is more than capable of making.
- Only tough love will cure them of this cancer that grows worse every year.
- As so often happens, it requires tough love - an intense two-week regimen called constraint-induced movement therapy.
- The closest thing my folks got to controlling me was called tough love.
- She gave me a lot of tough love, but I really needed it.
- My teaching ethos is to adopt an approach of tough love.
- Sometimes you have to use tough love to make it happen.
- I thought it was tough love telling him to leave home but I really think it was tougher to go to the police.
- There's a boy with a silver spoon in his mouth, some best friends who give her support and tough love, a little sister to parent in the absence of a delinquent mother, and poverty.
- It may have been tough love, but was it a Christian thing to do to beat children in that way?
- I nearly called the firm Reality Life, because some of what we will be doing is tough love: getting people to think about what they have to do so they can make earlier and better choices.
- Christianity is about tough love, not love that is sentimental or permissive.
- The traditional image of a hospital matron is of a buxom battle-axe, administering tough love, 1950s style.
- But earlier this year I had to put my foot down, and engage in a bit of tough love.
- It's alright, tough love is fine. It helps to keep my head on straight.
- Drug Treatment and Testing Orders are tough love.
- Nevertheless, the girls didn't crumple when faced with Richardson's brand of tough love and the Lady Chieftans experienced astonishing growth.
- This kind of tough love is particularly important with younger claimants.
- 1.1North American A political policy designed to encourage self-help by restricting state benefits.
Example sentencesExamples - In the conservative world view, this is just tough love.
- And indeed, when tough love means, temporarily, more starving babies, it's hard to get enthusiastic.
- So, Allen asks, Taft is recommending tough love?
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