Sentence examples for and hardened in the from inspiring English sources

If Rome decided to wage war, the pater patratus returned to the border, pronounced a declaration of war, and hurled across the boundary either a regular spear or a special stake sharpened and hardened in the fire.

It's a question formed and hardened in the Germany of his youth, and, as he puts it, as part of a "confrontation with my parents' generation, with Germany's past, interrogating the structures and realities of dictatorship, capitalism and communism, which inevitably led to the question of individual and collective responsibility for the factual".

The British Social Attitudes Survey shows that views of homosexuality started out tough and hardened in the mid-1980s the mid-1980s the AIDS period

This work aimed at to identify the hydration products and chemical bonds that develop in the early stages of setting and hardening in the lime activated slag cement.

An example is fibrosis, which can lead to obstruction of bowel or urethra following irradiation of tumors in the pelvis, and hardening in the breast following radiotherapy for breast cancer.

Water cannot be allowed to touch the thing that is deep inside the reactor: about 200 tons of melted nuclear fuel and debris, which burned through the floor and hardened, in one spot, into the shape of an elephant's foot.

He promised the speedy beginning of the period of the Holy Spirit, in which the institutional papal church, with its sacraments and its revelation hardened in the letter of scripture, would be replaced by a community of charismatic figures, filled with the Spirit, and by the time of "spiritual knowledge".

BAGHDAD — The ideology of radical Islam was developed in Egypt, and its cadres were hardened in the prisons of the country's authoritarian president, Hosni Mubarak.

Meteoric iron is practically carbonless and, hence, cannot be hardened in the manner of steel; a high nickel content of about 8 percent makes it relatively corrosion resistant.

And in a later report: "Antigovernment sentiment has hardened in the northeast and north of the country, to where many of the protesters were returning Thursday.

Moving the hardest element in our body (a tooth) within the second hardest tissue in our body (bone) can be a slow process because orthodontic treatment has a biological speed limit; the bone around teeth needs to soften and harden in a slow, orderly fashion as the teeth move.