Sentence examples for stiffened from inspiring English sources

Just then Isabelle received a call on her radio and stiffened as if royalty were expected.

But Mr Panetta's words, intended primarily to pander to opinion at home, can only have given them encouragement and stiffened their resolve.

Still, in the view of Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, EU leaders in the end "did much more together than one could have expected several hours ago .President François Hollande of France said a combination of factors changed the mood and stiffened Europe's resolve.

Lucia Nader of Conectas, a human-rights group, attributes an upsurge in prisoners since 2006 to a law that decriminalised possession of drugs for personal use but stiffened penalties for trafficking.

The efforts of the NCCC in 1976 delivered North Carolina to Ronald Reagan at a point where his primary campaign was collapsing, and stiffened his spine for subsequent runs for office.

Back then, the country's conservative establishment, led by Mr Khamenei and stiffened by Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, came together to save Mr Ahmadinejad from a wave of unrest.

Pakistan has to be persuaded to do more to stop terrorists infiltrating into Indian-administered Kashmir, while India has to start to normalise relations with Pakistan and to deal with what Mr Straw has described as the "human-rights deficit" in Kashmir.The visitors will find the mood in Delhi has stiffened since their caravan last trundled through in May and June.

Sergei Ivanov, Russia's defence minister, says many of the foreign mercenaries who once stiffened the resistance have decamped to Iraq.