Sentence examples for strengthening hard from inspiring English sources

Wrought Al-Ge-Si alloys were designed and produced to ensure dislocation bypass strengthening ("hard pin" precipitates) without significant precipitate cutting/shearing ("soft pin" precipitates).

She said that in Iran reformers were gaining ground, but that President Bush's antagonism toward the country ended up strengthening hard-liners there.

Security and propaganda authorities have long used porn as a pretext for strengthening hard-line factions in the government and tightening controls over Web content.

Plan Colombia has strengthened hard-liners on both sides.

Liberal commentators, here and abroad, have long argued that hard-line policies in the West only strengthen hard-line politicians in Iran, and conversely that lowering the threat level enhances the position of moderates.

President Bush's characterization of Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil" has been met by our allies' puzzled annoyance and by massive rallies in Iran that only strengthened hard-line elements there.

Some officials fear that the European Union's move will only strengthen hard-liners in Mr. Mugabe's government at a time when there have been some signs of moderation.

Saying that we're on a "path to diplomacy" while imposing these sanctions and increasing the war rhetoric only strengthens hard-line elements in the Iranian leadership and increases the risk of violence breaking out.

DfID should focus more on neonatal mortality, sustainability, health systems strengthening and hard-to-reach areas," it concluded.

Although Japan's foreign currency reserves are formidable, they have a limit and that makes a strengthening much harder to accomplish.

Many Chinese rights defenders work diligently within that reality, and some believe unrestrained activism like Gao's undermines their cause, weakening reform-minded bureaucrats within the government, strengthening the hard-line security factions.