For his part, Mr. Holder had arrived in office in January thinking he might open an inquiry, and his resolve hardened after reading graphic classified reports of detainee abuse, including several deaths of prisoners in C.I.A. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.
To overcome these challenges, and based on the observation that cache-resident memory values of ordinary programs exhibit a strong bias towards zero, this paper deals with new low leakage, hardened, and read-static-noise-margin-free SRAM memory cells for nano-scaled CMOS technology.
Yet the essays retain a force of example that harden them against being read, with fond nostalgia, as mere articles of an outmoded age of cultural criticism.
I've just read Blaine Harden's "Escape from Camp 14," the harrowing story of a young man's flight from one of the slave labor camps where as many as 200,000 political unreliables — a category that includes not just those who run afoul of authority but their relatives for three generations — are sent to be starved, tortured and ultimately worked to death.
I couldn't seem to harden myself, despite everything that I read about dementia.
By the time filming began on "Pollock," Ms. Harden had taken painting lessons, read everything she could about Ms. Krasner and mastered her subject's Brooklyn accent.
Her childhood reading gave her an appetite for narrative, which has hardened into an absolute belief in the power of storytelling.
Second, these commentators work for media outlets that those same committed voters trust and read, which provides a political feedback loop in which views are reinforced and hardened.
[Management] would read it in front of you and tell you, 'You need to harden up'.
It's painful to read that Britain, much of Western Europe, and Canada are becoming more socially and economically fluid while the United States hardens its class arteries.
