The island's ethnic divide has only hardened with time.
Child soldiers were hardened with mysterious drugs with names like gunpowder and brown-brown, along with glue and alcohol.
The division – sealed when Ankara invaded in response to an Athens-inspired coup aimed at uniting Cyprus with Greece – has only hardened with time.
The rites of the modern political convention have become hardened with time, but we would feel something missing if they were not there -- like holiday fruitcake.
Headed back to her Cutler Bay home with a new stash of Romney-Ryan and Fire Obama placards in the back of her car, Michelle Raghunandan, 48, said her determination has only hardened with each vanishing sign.
When Sama is handed a stone to throw at Karune, she looks at the villagers around her and sees "their faces were like hers had been, hardened with anger and fear and hate".
The first tonsil pops out, the second, hardened with pus, won't budge: "Blood was pouring out from the tonsil and every time I tried to grab onto the meat of it, bits broke off and the whole thing bled more".
We stopped for a break at a cabin in Landmannalaugar, where I tried to eat a sandwich that hardened with cold faster than I could get it into my mouth, and yet again politely declined a hot pool dip – I understand how it could be deemed relaxing, but what I can't get my head around is getting out of a hot bath in -20C.
The bowel was hardened, with wall thickness and limited contractility, similar to findings in encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (Figure 3A,B).
