Sentence examples for better toughen from inspiring English sources

I can't give you the names, but there's a growing consensus on the part of the bishops that they had better toughen up and go out and buy some good lawyers to get tough.

I remember the sister who got me against a wall and said, 'You'd better toughen up if you want to be a nurse, because you're going to see a lot of this.'" But she says she's pro-choice, and that 20 weeks is her preferred time-limit (she has said in the past she believes life commences at nine to 12 weeks, and the time limit should be around then).

But New York remains the place that will kick your ass when you arrive here from Idaho, so you better toughen up.

It's like, kiddo, this world, there will be blood -- there will be blood -- so you better toughen up now or you're going to suffer the consequences later.

The philosophy behind this is that life is competitive, and there's lots more stress and exams to come, so we'd better toughen children up as soon as possible.

What better way to toughen up the Wii than with a Nerf game?

Better to start toughening them up in high school.

We love our men, but many of us wish their mothers had done a better job at toughening them up for the inevitable sniffles, bruises and breaks that life brings to us along the way.

Better, they argued, to toughen up the rules quickly within the existing treaties to allow more intrusive monitoring of fiscal policies and impose harsher penalties on transgressors.

That's better than overbeating, which will toughen the pancakes.

'The idea is that negative life experiences can toughen people, making them better able to manage subsequent difficulties,' Seery says.