So the rightist rhetoric hardened.

Has the presidency hardened Obama?

Tartar is a form of hardened dental plaque.

Yet, despite increasing economic costs, Iran s response only hardened.

So the nuclear relationship has been hardened, not disrupted, by sanctions.

The perpetrators are not hardened criminals many have no previous criminal record.

When they dishonoured their pledge We condemned them, and hardened their hearts.

Even for battle hardened Venezuelans, it all came as quite a shock.

Yet under President Vladimir Putin, with the economy growing robustly, these feelings have hardened, not diminished.

Chinese diplomats have not responded directly, but they have noticeably hardened their stand on climate talks.

S60 3rd Edition S60v3 uses a hardened version of Symbian OS (v9.1), which has mandatory code signing.

Seasoned and battle hardened, most of them had fought with him for years, some as far back as 717.

It s just like Caracas, lots of makeup to hide the wrinkles, its mouth hardened into an expression of pure bitterness.

Iraq's mayhem has hardened the antagonism of countries like France and Germany, which led the opposition to the war in the first place.

If there is no movement toward peace as new Arab democracies take shape, negative views of Israel and the US will be hardened.

In the quiet courtyard at the Women's Vocational Training Center in Chiang Mai, the women sweeping and cleaning don t look like hardened criminals.

Consider the example of Greek Turkish relations, which had hardened under the compressed weight of establishment views that were long entrenched in both countries.

So, in 2015, the resolve that Europe and the United States have shown in opposing Putin s designs must not only be maintained it must be hardened.

Speck warns that many of these inmates are suspects awaiting trial, whose detention is likely to turn them into hardened criminals, without marketable skills, upon their release.

And when natural forest habitat is cleared, the hardened soils left behind allow pooled water to breed mosquitoes that have increased the number of worldwide deaths from malaria.

Opposition to Morsi hardened following the annulled November 2012 constitutional declaration, by which he had sought sweeping powers allegedly to protect the country s infant elected institutions against a politicized judiciary.

Who quite inconspicuously is leading us to become ever more hardened in our sensibilities and toward becoming increasingly accustomed to the fact that everyone can lie about everything and anything?

I see how boys have been brought up, and I see this across the planet to be tough, to be hardened, to distance themselves from their tenderness, to not cry.

We also know that Iran built an underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, hardened it against missile attack, and erected dummy buildings on the surface to conceal it from overhead surveillance.

Even if the US ultimately sought to force Assad from office, its blunt action hardened Assad s resistance, as well as that of his two allies in the UN Security Council, Russia and China.

After the war, each adopted a never be surprised again policy, and so went on to invest trillions of dollars in a multitude of hardened, mobile, and concealed nuclear weapons to deter the other.

After the war, each adopted a never be surprised again policy, and so went on to invest trillions of dollars in a multitude of hardened, mobile, and concealed nuclear weapons to deter the other.

Developing nations allies, meanwhile, are warning that the sanctions plan could destroy the chances of a post Kyoto treaty. Chinese diplomats have not responded directly, but they have noticeably hardened their stand on climate talks.

Though prices collapsed during the Great Recession of 2009, they quickly recovered, with the value of Russian output reaching another peak in 2012 2013 precisely when Russia s position on the EU Ukraine association agreement hardened.

A fervent opponent of Australia s carbon price, and a battle hardened opponent of US President Barack Obama, Murdoch lauded the virtues of austerity and minimal regulation, and railed against the corrosive effects of social safety nets.

True, some young European Muslims have traveled to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq some went as far as Yemen and Somalia, and came back as hardened radicals, soldiers in a war against a West that, in their view, dishonors Islam.

By promoting the core vision of a jihad to defend the lands of Islam (Dar al Islam) from outsiders, the CIA produced a hardened fighting force of thousands of young men displaced from their homes and stoked for battle.

Such a harsh measure suggests that, even though the sanctions have hardened North Korea s desire to export nuclear weapons and technology to Iran, the process is becoming more difficult and the regime is losing its key mechanism to earn foreign currency.

America's military victory in the war in Iraq probably hardened North Korea's resolve to rely on the nuclear option as its primary means of ensuring regime survival. But that should not surprise anyone the North Korean regime has always been committed to making military power the first priority in the state budget.

We also know that Iran built an underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, hardened it against missile attack, and erected dummy buildings on the surface to conceal it from overhead surveillance. The authorities agreed to open this facility to the IAEA only after its existence was confirmed by commercial satellite imagery, and they appear to have swept the underground halls of whatever equipment was installed before the inspectors arrived.