Sentence examples for started to toughen from inspiring English sources

But for now, the Army has no immediate plans to change its sex-adjusted recruitment and annual fitness tests, even though the Marine Corps, which tenaciously promotes itself as the most hard-bodied service, has started to toughen up its standards for women.

Any higher and it'll start to toughen.

At 150, it will start to toughen up some.

Many of these permits seem to be simply "placeholders", pre-emptively obtained in case the city or the state start to toughen up the building rules.

That was enough for Britain's government, closest to America's on this issue from the start, to toughen its diplomatic language.

I think certain institutions have toughened up, become more defiant and actually started to do more and more interesting and daring work.

Like Cameron, Heath started out regardless with bold plans to toughen up and transform a country that he regarded as too state-dependent.

The 20s are a great time to toughen up and start teaching yourself how to be emotionally and mentally resilient enough to weather both the joys and hardships to come".

It makes sense to toughen the start-up requirements that new banks must meet before winning a licence.

A new study suggests that these seed carriers used to be soft and thin but that they had to toughen up when dinos with long necks started nibbling on them.

Two "grey" ships, as they call naval vessels at the yard; two stumbling blocks for European diplomacy as it attempts to toughen sanctions against Vladimir Putin, just as the Vladivostok starts its sea trials.