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be stiffer
adjective
Rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.
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"There needs to be stiffer penalties".
The body may be stiffer but your mind will be clearer.
There will be stiffer jail sentences for tax evaders who hid money offshore.
DEALER-INSTALLED -- Most often done on low-end cars; leathers may be stiffer than those installed at auto factories.
But they changed their strategy after seeing that the competition for iPad applications would be stiffer than they had thought.
Also, if you increase the stiffness of the track too much the track will be stiffer than the muscle systems of the athletes, which actually lowers running efficiency.
The competition will be stiffer next summer in Beijing, where Spain, France and a probably stronger version of Argentina could challenge the United States.
The nine might be stiffer in the current than the twelve, the fifteen, the eighteen, the twenty-one, or the twenty-four.
He also announced that there would be stiffer fines and suspensions for repeat offenders on infractions involving illegal head hits and other dangerous acts.
The fines for littering should be stiffer and enforced and the fines for people who let their dogs foul the landscape anywhere should be swift and draconian.
At listing time, the broker's resistance to a reduction may be stiffer, probably prompting the argument that a lower commission will dampen the interest of all the other brokers who belong to the multiple listing service.
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