Now the tough decisions arrive.

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

You have a tough crowd to please. If you arrive with something that doesn't piss anybody off, then you just keep going with it, because you just need one dissenting mouth and then you're in big trouble.

It's tough being a Jew.

What discussions are taking place between Jan Bean (Slagle) and Marvin Trott to arrive at these decisions?

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.