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is toughening
verb
To make tough.
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She is toughening up a little now and expressing active skepticism.
The aviation agency, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, says it is toughening flight safety rules.
The group's shares fell by 23%.Japan's Financial Services Agency is toughening up its financial-market regulation.
The GNP, too, is toughening its rhetoric.In this section From sunshiners to hardliners Nothing to smile about Where's the beef?
Each has its own criteria for what it will pay for, and each is toughening those criteria.
But now, it seems, the Fund reckons it has been made a fool of once too often.Rather than weaken its conditions, it is toughening them.
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"No, to be honest what England has got to do is toughen up, without a shadow of a doubt.
The look is toughened up by a black motorcycle jacket and a slicked back ponytail.
The Yankees' competition in the American League East appears only to be toughening.
Central banks that took their eye off inflation are toughening up.
"It will depend what happens with welfare," she says, "and attitudes are toughening, across the board.
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