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hardened

(= case-hardened) used of persons; emotionally hardened faced a case-hardened judge converted to solid form (as concrete) protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) hardened missile silos (= inured) made tough by habitual exposure hardened fishermen a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured — Robert Lynd our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men — V.S.Pritchett (= tempered) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment a sword of tempered steel tempered glass

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Simple sentences

Switzerland hardened its immigration policy.
Tartar is a form of hardened dental plaque.

Movie subtitles

I've seen too many hardened arteries dragged out to make a first-night holiday.
But one gets hardened.
I hardened my heart.
However, all hardened criminals are cruel and vicious.
Haven't I seen him, sitting beside the hardened sulphur pit. playing his weird horn, as if to lure the monster. back from death to do his evil bidding.
She's young, not hardened as we are.
I'm a battle-hardened veteran.
His face hardened.
You fellas wouldn't want to take a little word of advice from a combat-hardened veteran, would you?
But I hardened my heart. I reserved my skills for the rich and powerful. Who could pay.
Freezing, but I'm becoming hardened.
And God smote the land with all manner of plagues, but still Pharaoh 's heart was hardened.
I would not let his people go because your serpent's tongue hardened my heart.
But again, Pharaoh 's heart was hardened.
He is hardened. Was hidden almost of half-year.
You seem like the hardened type. But not so much now.
No one knows better than I do that you're essentially a very kind person, and that only life and all these political circumstances have hardened you.
Easy, man, we're a hardened kind.
What hardened you?
Too old to be a juvenile delinquent, too young to be a hardened criminal.
If a gang of desperate, hardened criminals couldn't outsmart our District Officer Hedley, I hardly think you can.
And in my hardened soul, love and affection Are being sacredly preserved only for you.
I'm almost hardened.
Here, equipped with the newest and finest of weapons, hardened to combat conditions under offiicers steeped in the traditions of their Corps, the United States Marine today rightfully qualifies as the best fighting man on earth.
A hardened killer. A hooligan. A man without human feeling or human mercy.
Will crush the hardened wretch of the polluted, infinite abomination. and rain on him. a deluge of fire and brimstone!
You're at the awkward age. Too old to be a juvenile delinquent, too young to be a hardened criminal.
This obstinate king, this man of blood, whose heart God has hardened, can no longer be trusted.
Hardened sinner bachelor!
After a trial, with judges and a jury and hard words spoken against your friend and humble narrator he was sentenced to 14 years in Staja Number 84-F among smelly perverts and hardened prestoopniks.
God, in His kindness, forgives the most hardened sinners.
Princess, hardened villains fear no punishment.
While I took him between my lips. I felt how it grew. how it hardened.

News and current affairs

The perpetrators are not hardened criminals; many have no previous criminal record.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Iraq's mayhem has hardened the antagonism of countries like France and Germany, which led the opposition to the war in the first place.
As hardened professionals, they primarily play for themselves.
The tears streaming down the cheeks of Andrea Pirlo and Mario Balotelli after Italy's defeat were not those of hardened pros.
Yet, despite increasing economic costs, Iran's response only hardened.
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.
Facts, however, rarely pose an effective obstacle to hardened nativists, which is why governments worried about immigrants prefer to see some jobs go to people in poor countries rather than see poor people come to jobs in rich countries.
So the nuclear relationship has been hardened, not disrupted, by sanctions.
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.
Chinese diplomats have not responded directly, but they have noticeably hardened their stand on climate talks.
But scientists themselves are partly responsible, because they have hardened uncertainties into probabilities, treated disputable propositions as matters of fact, and attacked dissent as heresy.
As his opponents have hardened their stance, Russia has become ripe for a peaceful anti-criminal revolution.
Yet under President Vladimir Putin, with the economy growing robustly, these feelings have hardened, not diminished.
Has the presidency hardened Obama?
So the rightist rhetoric hardened.
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?
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.
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.

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