Sentence examples for stiffening from inspiring English sources

The number of prisoners in England and Wales has almost doubled since 1993, when Mr Howard started stiffening the criminal-justice system.

Reinforcements rolled across the border in a televised show of force on March 14th, stiffening the resolve of Bahrain's troops.Together they violently removed protesters demanding political reforms from public areas in Manama, the capital, and destroyed their encampment in the city centre.

Mr Obama had also to attempt the difficult task of stiffening Pakistan's resolve to fight the Taliban in their havens across the border.The core of the reinforcement is expected to be the equivalent of about four brigades.

To back down on the constitutional referendum, however, might be viewed as showing too much flexibility.Already there are signs of stiffening.

But politicians from both parties, as well as President Clinton, would like to see the law extended to cover sexual orientation, gender and disability.On its face, the notion of stiffening punishment when discrimination is involved may seem fair enough.

The new recruits are not sufficiently numerous to control the chamber, but they are experts in rallying public ire at political machinations, and have done wonders stiffening their colleagues' spines.These reforms reflect a growing popular feeling that public servants should be just that, and that the higher and mightier ones need to be taken down a peg or two.

President Bill Clinton fired off a resolve-stiffening letter to President Suleyman Demirel.

It was a spine-stiffening, yet invaluable experience.

The hope is that the Kim family is not desperate enough to risk all-out war.For all the sinew-stiffening at home, international pressure remains the preferred means for bringing Pyongyang to order.

They may well join the Labour voters in bed, metaphorically of course.No, the real reason why Mr Blair needs three weeks' worth of sinew-stiffening lies in his own government and his own first term in office.

This suggests that the self-stiffening is not the result of chemical changes in the polymer, which can usually be undone by heat.The researchers do have one lead, though.