And obsessive fiscal conservatism was left unchallenged, hardening into the self-defeating dogma that now threatens to sink the currency union.
The poll comes as Senate battle lines are hardening over the future of bulk surveillance.
Their cynicism is echoed by conservatives who blame Mr Erdogan for the chill with America.In truth, attitudes in America have been hardening ever since 2003, when Mr Erdogan failed to use his party's big majority to pass a bill to allow American forces to use Turkey as a launching pad in the war on Iraq.
These grievances have been felt for a long time, but under Mr Suharto's rule open discussion of religious and ethnic disputes was prohibited, forcing the issues underground, and perhaps hardening attitudes.
He speculates that Britain's winner-takes-all voting system makes its politics "sharper-edged and cruder" than elsewhere, hardening social attitudes.
One side-effect of the anti-graft campaign, and its revelations about crooked officials, is that public cynicism about officialdom is hardening.
"Put simply: that the country is hardening along more and more strict partisan lines".In other words, we have two sets of researchers taking up a potentially serious question and coming up with totally contradictory conclusions.
Even so, his comments may have served France by hardening its image.
Though greatly reformed since, the chaebol still dominate the economy.In this section Bashing the big guys Handbagged Enter the goons The peace and love tour It could be peace ReprintsBashing the chaebol is not new in South Korea, but this time the mood appears to be hardening.
There is a queasy suspicion that the process of discovery is in some way corrupted if it is driven by profit.This week saw two things that reflect this suspicion, which for many people is hardening into unshakeable conviction.
Since the global financial crisis in 2008, governments have been hardening such objectives as a way of stimulating growth, and have been borrowing heavily to meet them.
