Sentence examples for hard to soften from inspiring English sources

If your dates are hard, to soften them place in a steamer above 1 inch of boiling water for about five minutes.

But the compromise was a milestone because it secured the support of national governments, including some that had fought hard to soften measures opposed by the tobacco industry and some smoker advocacy groups.

That helps explain why Mr Rajoy's government is negotiating hard to soften the blow on preference-share holders and why it has prolonged a temporary €400 a month payment to the long-term unemployed.Trouble is also building in the regions.

But he is trying hard to soften up, even within the company.

Since taking the helm in 2006, ExxonMobil boss Rex W. Tillerson has worked hard to soften the company's stance on climate change; he is not as gruff and forceful as his predecessor Lee R. Raymond in dismissing global-warming alarmists.

If he still cannot bring about reforms, then I would be willing to support the opposition". The Islamic wing of the opposition is working hard to soften its theocratic image, to reach across Malaysia's ethnic and religious divide.

More expensive earrings will have higher quality metal, and will usually be harder to soften.

Poor development has left the country defenseless to hurricanes, without sea walls or other hard defenses to soften the blow.

I want my hard edges to soften as the years pass -- made not weak, but supple.

This will allow the dry, calloused (hard) skin to soften.

And with babies and small children, who begin so helplessly, always shitting and puking and drooling and screaming, it is hard to not soften into our humanness, our own messy animal bodies.