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rigid stiff unyielding inflexible firm hard solid hardened unmalleable compact impliable adamantine solidified strong immalleable non-flexible stony tough sturdy taut uncompromising resolute stubborn adamant determined immovable obstinate unbending intractable relentless unwavering dogged implacable intransigent obdurate thick viscous viscid clotted coagulated gelatinous ropy concentrated heavy condensed mucilaginous ropey syrupy inspissated viscoid caked clabbered congealed reinforced armoured(UK) armored(US) protected strengthened toughened braced buttressed fortified secure thickened beefed up bulletproof bolstered covered steel-clad armor-plated backed built up tightened tautened tensed ankylosed rigidified benumbed starkened steadied clenched locked locken strained tensed up became rigid become rigid made rigid made stiff became stiff become stiff made stronger set gelled froze frozen jelled curdled jellied petrified crystallised(UK) crystallized(US) ossified annealed steeled indurated inured firmed up shored up gave a boost to given a boost to gave strength to given strength to consolidated supported increased heightened escalated harshened toughened up scaled up tightened up made stricter cranked up made more severe made more rigid made more rigorous made more stringent upped seized up cramped froze up frozen up sticked stuck stiffened up stopped working iced chilled frosted glaciated turned into ice froze over frozen over froze solid frozen solid iced over iced up boosted maintained upheld upholden augmented propped up bore beared borne carried cushioned fed feed fixt fixed fastened joined secured anchored connected coupled linked planted positioned affixed embedded implanted placed bound bounden jammed lodged wedged confined fixed in place became immovable become immovable became stuck become stuck made immovable bristled prickled rose risen horripilated stood up poked out stuck out stood on end became erect become erect More

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Holm surprised and stiffened a good few women like this.
Doege thought she had slept wrong, until Floyd's neck stiffened.
Mr. Bolton stiffened, witnesses said, and abruptly ended the meeting.
After the 1985 disaster, construction codes were reviewed and stiffened.
But Boris Johnson's increasingly hardline policies have stiffened their spines.
The 6s and Plus got stiffened to prevent bending, as well.
After the threats, which started in 2014, Ms Nabourema's resolve stiffened.
Her illness left her in a wheelchair and her hands stiffened.
But the sour projections stiffened resistance from some deficit-averse Republicans.
A white car drove down the lane, and Méndez stiffened slightly.
As Moreno-Ocampo rose to begin the questioning, Kenyatta's face stiffened.
That legislation was stiffened this week in an all-party committee.
The girl's body stiffened as the 3,000 volts shot through her.
Residents like these often shrank from the police or stiffened defensively.
Silver began to pull him onto his back but Wiggington stiffened.
That seems to have stiffened Mr Kern's nerve after a terrible campaign.
It shrank, stiffened, and rendered fat — again, just like ground beef does.
Toyota also stiffened the Supra's chassis and tweaked its suspension to improve handling.
Most decks were made of pasted-together, stiffened paper and crumbled with use.
He stiffened slightly when asked if the Senate needs a black woman's voice.
This principled skepticism is the epistemological backbone that stiffened his anti-Lutheran stance.
But at least we wouldn't have to lead those permanently stiffened, suffocated lives.
The shifts appear to have only stiffened the resolve of American trading partners.
Providence had a couple of empty possessions on offense but stiffened on defense.
Pittsburgh's penalty kill stiffened and only allowed one shot on the power play.
I bristled, I stiffened, I ballooned to twice my natural size with indignation.
Their stiffened surfaces resemble topographies or skin — with folds and ridges suggesting scars.
Yet since a massive cyber-attack on Estonia in 2007, cyber-defences have stiffened.
She ran her hand through his hair, as she often did, but he stiffened.
Mane&aposs body stiffened completely before falling awkwardly against the fence of the cage.
On Wednesday, however, after playing catch, his pitching arm again stiffened up, Syndergaard said.
In 1935, Klee developed scleroderma, a slowly wasting disease that gradually stiffened his body.
Local residents stiffened in their resistance to border walls and the militarization of our communities.
"In those days, white people stiffened at the sight of a black man," she said.
Gear shifts are held longer than when in comfort mode and the ride is stiffened.
"He said it stiffened up a little bit, but he's fine," Mackanin said of Nola.
The patient's lungs were scarred, stiffened, pocked with dead spots and extremely inflamed, he said.
There were stiffened ponchos that could have been uniforms for members of some survivalist cult.
Then, triumphal, Trump straightened his suit jacket, stiffened his posture and raised his fleshy chin.
But the combination of stiffened run defense and productive offense kept the Cardinal at bay.
In that dream scenario, Iran's economy melts down under stiffened sanctions and the government follows.
The Oregon defense stiffened its side of the field five times in the first half.
But the Giants' defense stiffened, forcing turnovers and frustrating Prescott the rest of the way.
My body sort of stiffened to protect the baby and the belly area the uterus area.
A stiffened chassis and and other suspension tweaks improve both handling and roll resistance, Toyota says.
He allowed two runs (one earned), walking one and striking out three, before his back stiffened.
His shoulders stiffened under her hands and he groaned loudly, tossing his head back in pleasure.
That means all 22 models have a stiffened chassis, new exhaust system and a new engine.
The way she very faintly stiffened and gradually angled her body and drew her eyes away.
In the case of aircraft, years of bombing typically only made people angry and stiffened resistance.
But when someone brought him lyrics, he stiffened, leaped from his chair, and got to work.
It also stiffened the fervent opposition to Catalan separatism among national political parties - and many Spaniards.
But Giuliani said on Thursday that Mueller's team had stiffened its position in the latest talks.
And once dominant college programs like Syracuse have been swept aside as the competition has stiffened.
But his face stiffened and his eyes twitched when the rest of the verdict was read.
The driver-focused AMG GLA 45 also sports stiffened suspension, adaptive damping, and high-performance brakes.
Democrats on Capitol Hill stiffened after being targeted themselves by demonstrators demanding a broader, more robust opposition.
The policy response to the crisis, including stiffened financial regulation, has a lot to do with this.
To resolve this, the SEAS researchers stiffened HAMR's transmission and added soft pads to its front legs.
Ms Dell and her co-author showed that bombing stiffened villages' resistance rather than breaking their resolve.
But the sniper killings of five officers in Dallas seems to have stiffened the opposition to reforms.
The Flyers' defense stiffened in the third and didn't allow the Blue Jackets much movement near Mrazek.
Thinking it was one of the Park Police, I stiffened and prepared for the latest nonsensical command.
A more buttoned-up deal maker might have stiffened, but Mr. Mann pulled the small man close.
The matrix stiffened — something Jensen is now hoping to show is also indicative of a fetal state.
By Hill's account, Bolton, a longtime lawyer and war veteran, "immediately stiffened" and cut the meeting short.
Formerly known as "grand mal" seizures, these neural disturbances cause stiffened muscles and a loss of consciousness.
The penalties for lawbreakers have been stiffened, and prosecutors have cracked down hard when violators are caught.
The penalties were stiffened again before the 12 season, to 80 games, 162 games and a permanent ban.
But the Panthers' defense, which has allowed only one opening-drive touchdown in its last 23 games, stiffened.
But their spines may be stiffened by the example of America's reworked trade deal with Canada and Mexico.
Other specialists said that Turkey's government had stiffened its border enforcement and efforts to root out Islamic extremists.
He started on Sunday, but he said the knee stiffened and pain worsened as the game went on.
Unused to physical affection among his own relatives, he stiffened, and I laughed at his scrunched-up face.
But opposition to density has only stiffened as the gulf widens between the 22013 percent and everyone else.
At a gate, a policeman peered into the HiLux, recognized the plainclothes agent, stiffened, and waved us through.
Authorities have stiffened penalties against sex crimes, introduced fast-track trials in rape cases and made stalking a crime.
China and South Korea agreed that sanctions on North Korea should be stiffened if it conducted another nuclear test.
After struggling for most of the second and third quarters, the North Carolina defense stiffened in the fourth quarter.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the national force, disbanded its unit after the government stiffened the law in 2014.
Fortunately, some hosts have stiffened their spines of late, criticising the government for a poor economy, among other things.
But the Seahawks defense stiffened, forcing Minnesota to convert a 22-yard field goal for a 3-0 lead.
Liufau's second interception of the first half gave UCLA the ball at Colorado's 28, but the Buffalo defense stiffened.
Once, after an hour on the subway, it had stiffened slightly, which didn't stop anyone from happily devouring it.
Once Mr. Flynn recanted, prosecutors stiffened their sentencing recommendation, saying Mr. Flynn deserved up to six months in prison.
Amid the renewed eruption of the scandal last year, Francis stiffened the penalty against Father Karadima and defrocked him.
But they have also stiffened the resolve of Democrats pushing for tougher oversight on the administration and its facilities.
Verizon's core business, wireless phone service, is being hurt by stiffened competition from AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint.
The upper lips of the British public are stiffened, while the lower lips of the audience are set aquiver.
Instead, the sprinters cock the lead knee high and drive the foot into the track with a stiffened ankle.
But Kyrie Irving missed all six of his shots in the fourth quarter after his back and knee stiffened.
Authorities stiffened penalties against sex crimes, introduced fast-track trials in rape cases and made stalking a crime. Jan.
But the Owls' defense stiffened and forced a 26-yard boot by Crosa for a 259-215 Cincinnati lead.
Yet thyroid disease also causes the extraocular muscles -- the muscles that control eye movement -- to become enlarged and stiffened.
Matheny said he twisted his ankle rounding first base in the third inning and it stiffened up along the way.
The Chargers made one first down and the defense stiffened again before Meder blocked Lambo's attempt to tie the game.
A faint breeze squeezed through an open window and then stiffened as the boat motored north on the East River.
Clemson's defense stiffened near the goal line, suddenly finding its balance, and held the Crimson Tide to a field goal.
Arthritis stiffened the fingers that had served him for decades as a deli butcher, so he cut food with scissors.
"I saw her face was all stiffened up and her skin was turning dark and she could not speak," he said.
And they have stiffened their spine in resistance to this president and his agenda, no matter how successful it might be.
Then a muscle in his side stiffened, and he had to ask Collins to take him out after the sixth inning.
Freshly steamed rice, still damp from the pot, won't do; it's often better the next day, cooled and stiffened a little.
His thumbs, stiffened by time and the rigors of basketball, sometimes hurt so badly that he has trouble cleaning his glasses.
It was a strapless gown of distressed guipure—with scorched edges, stiffened and gilded—that looked like a giant sea sponge.
When the Cowboys seemed to be on the verge of gaining some momentum on the ensuing series, the Raiders' defense stiffened.
And, to ensure her spine stays stiffened, MPs are seeking to instruct her in a new law to call for more time.
Ms. Brainard agreed reluctantly to support the Fed's first post-recession rate increase in December, but she has stiffened in her concerns.
One arm shot into the air and stiffened, her eyes rolled back in her head and she began frothing at the mouth.
Quinn stiffened, and then let out a scream—"a much more exaggerated scream than anything I'd ever heard him do," Mills says.
It stiffened Democratic resolve to oppose the president at a time when some of the party's leaders were looking for bipartisan cooperation.
Though some laws covering rape have been stiffened, India still makes international headlines for horrendous gang rapes, and the cases keep coming.
Though some laws covering rape have been stiffened, India still makes international headlines for horrendous gang rapes, and the cases keep coming.
For example, the agency stiffened its social and environmental standards by adopting the more rigorous standards set by the International Finance Corporation.
Then he stiffened in his suit and adopted a stentorian tone, like a fourth grader doing an impression of his school principal.
When they were approached in SoHo by an aggressive fan, everyone stiffened up just a bit while sizing up the potential threat.
But opposition, which partly reflected an ambivalence grounded in Britain's imperial past, stiffened as European leaders sought greater economic and political integration.
But the Trump administration has already stiffened eligibility guidelines for food stamps, a move projected to end benefits for nearly 700,000 people.
I relish the act of examining: stitches and seams, material between my fingertips, stiffened washing machine tags — I get this from my mother.
Following a fumbled kickoff lost by Texans rookie Tyler Ervin, the Texans' defense stiffened as they held the Raiders to a field goal.
Though its share of the market is smaller than those of the top players, AlixPartners and Alvarez & Marsal, its entry has stiffened competition.
Here, she has "stiffened the space between her shoulder blades" (to quote Lorna Moon in Clifford Odets's "Golden Boy") and pulled herself together.
Rising market uncertainty has stiffened near term earnings headwinds for Bunge since it reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings last month, Heckman said.
Stiffened international competition has sent the U.S. share of global output below 25 percent; manufacturing now employs fewer than 10 percent of American workers.
Garcia hit him in the first inning, but Shaw remained in the game until the sixth, leaving when it had stiffened up on him.
Leadership analysis might give clues MORE's negotiating posture noticeably stiffened after Xi summoned him to Beijing before the first Trump-Kim meeting, in Singapore.
Elaborate ship models made by a Yemeni man out of cardboard and glue-stiffened cloth were X-rayed to ensure they contained nothing untoward.
Instead, it appears to have only stiffened Iran's resolve, pushing it from wary patience to calibrated confrontation against an enemy it has long mistrusted.
All arms stiffened from stirring a potthick with sugary mung beans,stirred and stirred then poured chè khoonto a tray wide as a mat.
He suggested that the chilly weather had stiffened players during a loss on Friday, then questioned the scheduling of a game for Saturday night.
These pieces of fabric have been stiffened and manipulated into elegant swathes of color and geometry, and are draped midair in beautiful, formal compositions.
Orion's heat shield is a stiffened skin design, and this curing process was the last step prior to attaching titanium stiffeners to the interior surface.
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The collapse of fuel-efficient diesel sales has stiffened the challenge across the industry, causing CO2 emissions to begin rising again after years of improvement.
Strong delivery sales are key for Pizza Hut as competition in the pizza segment has stiffened and more restaurants outside the group begin to deliver.
She had cerebral palsy that curled her fingers and stiffened her limbs, and the simple act of feeding her a bottle took nearly an hour.
The stiffened fabric is placed under a cutting machine that stamps down on the mold to make flower shapes, as a cookie-cutter cuts dough.
The signs were hard to see, the announcements were hard to hear and the people rushing by made her feel unsteady on her stiffened knees.
Under current law, any person who illegally enters the United States can be prosecuted; penalties are stiffened if they try to return after being deported.
Its suspension stiffened a little, the steering quickened, the SUV bolted more aggressively at a press of the gas pedal and the engine roared louder.
He dodged a blizzard of bullets over the years, along with a bombing that left his skin mottled, his right hand stiffened like a claw.
Chimaeras belong to a family of unusual deep-sea fishes whose bodies are stiffened not by bones, but by plates and bone-like bits of cartilage.
Savage took a devastating hit from 49ers defensive end Elvis Dumervil during the second quarter and could be seen trembling with his arms stiffened and outstretched.
It significantly stiffened resistance to Iran in the Middle East, a reorientation that was the underlying theme of Trump's first stops in Saudi Arabia and Israel.
But Abilene Christian stiffened on defense after that and cut the deficit to seven when Howell completed a three-point play at the 28:21984 mark.
He then draped the stiffened sheets over a plywood platform, creating a craggy stage for Verdi's "Macbeth," the 1847 work that LoftOpera presents here starting Thursday.
In response, the council imposed a daily curfew for youth, set up a 24-hour hotline for reporting crime and stiffened penalties for assault and theft.
After the 2005 season, the drug program was stiffened, extending the suspensions for first, second and third violations to 50 games, 100 games and a permanent ban.
The national government has increased the penalties for damaging protected buildings and stiffened a 100-metre exclusion zone around monuments, where (in theory) nothing can be built.
Also, newer entrants have stiffened competition in the category "We will do nine figures of revenue this year," said Chieh Huang, co-founder and CEO of Boxed.
These were white reliefs with surfaces made from familiar materials and objects (fabric, bread, cotton wool) covered in liquid kaolin, a white clay, which stiffened when dry.
It stiffened and supported parts of the foot, allowing runners to push off hard with less muscular effort, but did not provide much thrust of its own.
Ohhhkay. But I stiffened on her massage table, and my eyes, squished into the puffy face cushion, widened — I hadn't told her my mom had recently died.
Politics being what it is, moral backbones on Capitol Hill will be stiffened if there are clear signs that the public is outraged by what is happening.
Mane&aposs body then stiffened in an instant and he awkwardly collapsed against the fence of the cage, before ending up in a heap on the canvas.
Those letters confirmed much of what Mr. Del Vecchio, a wealthy Italian entrepreneur, had seen for himself and stiffened his resolve to return to the company's roots.
But the Blackshirts defense stiffened and came up with game's lone turnover when Jackson intercepted an Aidan Smith pass and returned the ball to the Northwestern 49.
John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, stiffened in his chair when Mr. Sondland made the comment, and he quickly cut off the meeting, she said.
Each stiffened to attention as I jogged by and made a show of looking away, although one or two glanced in my direction once I had passed.
After allowing Coleman's goal on the first shot of the game, Elliott stiffened and made the next nine saves, including several stellar ones in the last two minutes.
The Eagles' defense stiffened and caused Allen to fumble with Brandon Graham pouncing on the football at the Buffalo 25 with 23:123 left in the first half.
Fortunately Nancy Pelosi stiffened the president's spine, and when Obamacare survived its big Supreme Court challenge Emanuel said that he was glad the president hadn't taken his advice.
The Arab militia lacks the experience to take on Islamic State without the YBS, whose ranks are stiffened with veterans of the PKK's three-decade insurgency against Ankara.
Indeed, in one of its first uses, the condemned stiffened up in the chair in which he had been placed, which caused the bullets to miss his heart.
Upstairs, Rivera showed off a trove of carnal doodads, including a pharmacist's condom cabinet, a bicycle-powered dildo, and a Victorian "anti-onanism device" made of stiffened leather.
People suspicious of government have stiffened in their resolve to say no, Ms. Smith said, even when they agree that an outcome could be positive for the community.
Dartmouth cut it to 266-242 on a Knight layup and free throw 217 seconds later, but then the Bulls' defense stiffened, and Buffalo took control going into halftime.
Born Maud Dowley in 1903 in the town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Lewis suffered from juvenile arthritis that eventually bowed her spine, stiffened her neck, and gnarled her hands.
Karnataka, dependent on alcohol for nearly a quarter of state revenue and already struggling to plug smuggling from cheaper Goa, has stiffened border checks to stem this new tide.
Using off-the-shelf industrial robots and tools adapted from handling sheets of metal, cardboard, and plastic, the stiffened fabric can be cut precisely, molded, and welded to itself.
That even includes the standard T-shirt, cut long in the body at Vetements with stiffened sleeves or a high-­rise neckline, as if being worn back to front.
Some of his figures have the crisp perfection of 3-D printed sculpture, and he is thought to have used artificially stiffened fabric as a model for draped clothing.
A sophisticated reassessment of the fossils determined it was a vertebrate, with gills and a stiffened rod, or notochord, that functioned as a rudimentary spinal cord and supported its body.
Ghost sharks, or what marine biologists call chimaeras, are a family of unusual fishes whose bodies are stiffened not by bones, but by plates and bone-like bits of cartilage.
To strengthen anti-corruption reforms, center-left senator Claudia Lopez pushed for an August vote that will ask Colombians whether congressional salaries should be cut and sentences for corruption stiffened.
Of course, there's a long tradition of famous fighters mocking their fallen foes, too, like when Tank Abbott knocked out John Matua and ridiculed his stiffened arms at UFC 6.
Seahawks perfectly suited to attack Eagles deep The Philadelphia Eagles' defense has stiffened with a healthy secondary, but its style is inherently susceptible to the Seattle Seahawks' favorite downfield concepts.
An X-ray of a magnetic church sculpture of the pair, molded from paint-stiffened canvas, reveals a string of pearls, a rosary and a length of lace concealed inside.
He described it as a "total fraud" and argued that libel laws should be stiffened to go after Mr. Woodward for what Mr. Trump claimed was a litany of falsehoods.
Brimming with confidence and stiffened by the experience of playing at, and graduating from, the University of Virginia, Collins, a two-time N.C.A.A. singles champion, is unsurprised by her recent emergence.
Fields, a sophomore transfer from Georgia, had scoring strikes of 25, 32, and 29 yards, plus a 51-yard TD run, before FAU stiffened to trail 28-3 at the half.
Both the speed and extent of aging vary widely, not only among but also within individuals; you can have hearing loss but no vision changes, or stiffened joints but supple arteries.
Then came an eruption of colors: vivid patterns of palm trees and sunbeams printed on stiffened, corrugated fabrics that Mr. Green said were inspired by the thought of venturing toward paradise.
New England's defense stiffened and forced the Eagles to go 0-for-7 on third down after halftime, as it still held its seven-point lead with 8:30 to go.
Resistance has stiffened under the new government of populist Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has voiced alarm about rising debt levels and says the country must wean itself off foreign loans.
They are already enduring stiffened resistance in the United States and Europe to Chinese acquisitions of technology through joint ventures with foreign companies or, with financing by state-run banks, outright purchases.
Trump hosted the show way back in 2015, when he was still improbably leading in the Republican primaries and we all thought his star would fizzle as soon as the competition stiffened.
Letting the brew congeal for a day, the workers pried the stiffened resin off the mold, and fit the two parts together into another iteration of the chair hanging over Mr. Pesce.
In the face of the Reagan administration's defiance, the 1986 decision helped galvanize congressional opposition and stiffened the resolve of Central American governments to seek an end to the war in Nicaragua.
This was the first general election under new state laws that required voters to produce an approved photo ID card, and that stiffened the requirements for new voters to prove their residence.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, said Taliban resistance had stiffened in recent days as the U.S.-backed Iraqi campaign advanced closer to the city of Mosul.
The legislation, which was passed in March, created an offense for graffiti making as a hate crime and stiffened penalties for desecrating a cemetery or damaging property in a house of worship.
The female dancers perform on point — dancing on their toes in stiffened ballet shoes — a skill they begin to learn as teenagers, and which requires a different strength and training than men's.
You could get them to act like wings, if you could have a leading edge spar that stiffened, and then some trailing spars and/or some way of maintaining tension in the cape.
A. In October, the Multi-State Lottery Association stiffened the odds of winning Powerball jackpots from one in 260 million to one in 63 million, but made it easier to win smaller prizes.
In my own investigation, I found at least 16 states, including Kentucky, that passed laws in recent years that stiffened penalties for opioid painkillers, heroin, or fentanyl — largely in response to the epidemic.
He was also an author of the broader 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which stiffened federal prison sentences and provided for new prison construction and more cops on the streets.
Some approached the big jumps at full speed, only to pull up at the last moment because snow made it impossible to see or the wind socks on the jumps were completely stiffened.
Six states have reduced early voting days or hours, seven have stiffened requirements to register and three states have made it harder for people with felony convictions to regain the right to vote.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank will fine-tune monetary policy in a "pre-emptive" way to ensure liquidity is reasonably ample, it said on Wednesday, amid heightened trade tension that has stiffened economic headwinds.
For now, the U.S. strategy has stiffened China and Russia's resistance, with the countries vetoing U.S.–proposed resolutions at the UN Security Council, and expressing willingness to provide Maduro a degree of financial flexibility.
Auburn's defense stiffened, though, and Pettway capped a game-sealing drive with a tackle-breaking, 215-yard touchdown run on a direct snap that pushed the lead to 63-26 with 22013:218 left.
Progressive pressure, from the streets to the halls of Congress, stiffened the backs of elected officials who, in the early days of the new administration, signaled a cautious willingness to do business with Trump.
Ultimately, though, as the defenses stiffened and the ground-and-pound game took over and deadlocked two woeful offenses, the Petty Era looked aesthetically much like so many eras that had come before it.
The influence of the "Berniecrat" wing has also been felt in more substantial ways, as an activist swell stiffened Democrats' resistance to President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks and his Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.
We've loved it since the days when patch-covered jean jackets, dyed hair, and mohawks stiffened with raw egg whites were an invitation to get your ass kicked by any jock within spitting distance.
His initial approaches to the Palestinians were rejected by their leaders, and their resistance stiffened after the Trump administration recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital without waiting for a negotiated agreement on the city's status.
"It is likely Xi has been criticized by the hawks and stiffened his position to give no concessions to President Trump other than the many reforms China was already going to undertake," he said.
The United States threatened on Sunday to impose sanctions on European companies that do business with Iran, as the remaining participants in the Iran nuclear accord stiffened their resolve to keep that agreement operational.
Sound and its opposite are also the subject of Nikita Gale's contributions, sculptures that entwine sound-abetting equipment (guitar stands and audio cables) with sound-suppressing materials (terrycloth and polyurethane foam, deceptively stiffened with concrete).
Separately, in Modi's western home state of Gujarat, lawmakers of his ruling party stiffened the punishment for cow slaughter to life imprisonment, the toughest such measure aimed at protecting cows, widely considered holy by Hindus.
LONDON, Sept 2148 (IFR) - European high-yield investor resistance to aggressive lending terms could be stiffened by seeing several issuers take advantage of the flexibility in deal documentation granted at the market's peak in 22017.
Madrid, after its humiliation in November, came with its midfield defense stiffened by the presence of Casemiro, whose combative instincts were preferred over the scoring instincts of one of the club's current Galácticos, James Rodríguez.
But the Blackhawks stiffened while down a man thereafter, killing the Devils' final three chances, which included one just minutes before a four-minute power play that led to Hossa's goal that helped force overtime.
As tech companies have stiffened encryption to combat hackers — and, some say, bolster their reputation for protecting privacy in the wake of the Edward Snowden disclosures — authorities say they have struggled to execute search warrants.
From a distance of half a century, however, it seems rather clear — at least to me — that the loopy young Mets franchise had its spine stiffened by two men trained by the United States Marines.
And a number of influential Democrats, including House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, stiffened their opposition to Barr's and Graham's call for a quick extension of the authorities to avoid a lapse in the surveillance law.
These quietly dignified objects, stiffened by exposure to the elements, are laid against a white backdrop, not unlike Richard Avedon's fashion shots of crushed cigarette butts, that highlights every stray thread and every speck of dirt.
The arrest was on the front page of four Philadelphia newspapers: the Inquirer noted that the two detectives, "who were standing by looking over the customers, stiffened like pointer dogs" when they happened to spot Capone.
Each "finger" is made of an "elastic yet tough silicone matrix," and inside it are tiny fibers that remain slack when not in use, but which can be stiffened using a tiny amount of hydraulic pressure.
Though more tolerant of foreign workers, the younger generation is also wary of letting them become citizens, lest they dilute the nation's identity — an attitude that seems to have stiffened during the country's prolonged economic slump.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States threatened on Sunday to impose sanctions on European companies that do business with Iran, as the remaining participants in the Iran nuclear accord stiffened their resolve to keep that agreement operational.
Now that immigration controls have stiffened in response, more children than ever are in government custody, for far longer than they ever have been — weeks turning to months in shelters that were never meant to become homes.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, where confirmed cases have surged to 1,543, stiffened his response to the virus by establishing strict quarantine measures for patients and urging the public to stop going to pubs or restaurants.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, where confirmed cases have surged to 1,543, stiffened his response to the virus by establishing strict quarantine measures for patients and urging the public to stop going to pubs or restaurants.
The Danish company Really, in partnership with the Danish textile brand Kvadrat, returned to Milan for a second year with a show of furnishings made from discarded denim and white cotton laundry fibers stiffened with a binder.
Their incentives, though, are quickly moving in favor of Democrats' demands, as Democratic members' backs are being stiffened by favorable winds -- and a belief that Republicans would be the ones to suffer politically if nothing is agreed.
However, there were other periods, including much of the third quarter, when Cleveland's defence stiffened up, the Warriors found themselves resorting to launching ill-advised three-pointers by closely guarded players, and their lead dwindled to single digits.
Stiffened Democratic opposition reduces Trump's margin for error in winning confirmation of key appointments, such as Treasury Secretary-designee Steven Mnuchin, as well as business-focused legislation such as tax-cuts and the repeal and replacement of Obamacare.
At the same time, China has stiffened its resolve to become an AI superpower and export its techno-­authoritarian revolution—which means the US has a vital national interest in ensuring that its tech firms remain world leaders.
Among children taking cannabidiol, the decrease in the frequency of convulsive seizures -- which involve a loss of consciousness, stiffened muscles and jerking movements -- was 214 percentage points greater than the decrease in seizures among children taking a placebo.
And here and there we find colorfully labeled cans of supermarket peas (do the brands still exist or are the cans archival?) stacked in corners or perched on shelves made in part from what look like stiffened socks.
But its resistance later stiffened, and only about a dozen Vietnamese immigrants ended up being deported from the United States, according to Phi Nguyen, a lawyer working in Atlanta for Asian Americans Advancing Justice, a legal advocacy group.
"I'm just letting her know — hey, look, I might have just stiffened up a little bit back at the little show because it was a lot of people back there," he said not specifying what show they met at.
From experience, they know it might be a man who overdosed into unconsciousness while driving, a teen or elderly user passed out in a park or an already stiffened corpse in a hotel room strewn with needles and powder.
The barbed decision, written by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, argued pointedly that "constitutionalism, accountability and the rule of law constitute the sharp and mighty sword that stands ready to chop the ugly head of impunity off its stiffened neck".
The rule that states that cars must remain within the white lines at the edge of the track was stiffened this year, and two weeks ago the race stewards at the British Grand Prix cracked down on its enforcement.
After he was discovered by his cellmate, a physician assistant performed a single chest compression, according to the report, but stopped when blood started to pour out of his ear and his arms stiffened, showing signs of rigor mortis.
"Constitutionalism, accountability and the rule of law constitute the sharp and mighty sword that stands ready to chop the ugly head of impunity off its stiffened neck," he stated in a preamble that set the tone for the hour-long ruling.
Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol said on Tuesday that the auto and steel industries could be hit hard if U.S trade curbs were to be further stiffened, because they run the biggest trade surpluses with the United States.
But rather than encourage the country to renegotiate, Trump's policy appears to have only stiffened Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's spine, and prompted Iran to search for its own points of leverage against the United States — including through military action.
During a scrimmage against his teammates he (clearly) fouled fellow Canadian wunderkind TJ Barrett, then stiffened up, bounced off the ground with four straight limbs like a cartoon, and came excruciatingly close to yelling at the assistant who was reffing.
Mr. Gunn-Salie used police footage of the crouching protesters at the moment right before the police opened fire to recreate the event with life-size figures, headless and spectral, made of workers' clothing stiffened and sculpted with mixed media.
The president stiffened his tone on settlements after he met briefly with King Abdullah II of Jordan; his advisers, including Jared Kushner, spoke with Arab officials, who urged the administration not to give Israel a free hand on the issue.
Trump's rhetorical assault on the Federal Reserve is now being stiffened with an attempt to put true believers, such as Stephen Moore and Herman Cain on its board, raising doubts about the independence of the world's most powerful central bank.
But that is hardly as disturbing as the treatment Caravaggio accords Lazarus, whose left arm is apparently stiffened with rigor mortis, and perhaps the right arm, too, even if such an interpretation would fly in the face of the work's premise.
But the listing of Essity, a market leader in incontinence products with the brand TENA and in professional hygiene with Tork, came at a time of rising pulp prices, while competition has stiffened, making it harder to pass on costs to customers.
In his second year, Mr. Obama stiffened his approach to Beijing, and by the time he ran for re-election in 2012, he was announcing a lawsuit against China at the World Trade Organization for unfairly subsidizing its auto and auto-parts industries.
In other words, the driver themself can't be getting significantly better at the track as you're trying new setups, otherwise you don't know if you gained three tenths of a second from that stiffened suspension, or from the fact that they finally mastered Turn 5.
Later in the day, Senate Democrats, their backs stiffened by a base demanding a more muscular response to Trump's nominees, boycotted two committee hearings, grinding the confirmation process for the likely secretaries of the Treasury and Health and Human Services to a temporary halt.
"Stiff wires in the brain cause a lot of damage because the brain can move around," Hires pointed out, adding that a living brain is very soft, much softer than the specimens you might have seen in jars which have been stiffened with formaldehyde.
Alone among the quacks and mountebanks at St. Saviour's, the dashing Dr. James Bain has an intrinsic sense of hygiene, but once he's poisoned there's no one to urge the surgeons to wash their hands or exchange their blood-stiffened frock coats for white gowns.
After failing to get an oven hot enough to produce a crust as thin and crunchy as the ones he remembered eating in Italy, he tossed dough on a wood-burning grill and watched in awe as it stiffened to a crisp almost instantly.
At the same time, Iraqi spies have infiltrated Islamic State fighter cells in Syria, a senior Iraqi official said, relaying information back to Iraqi forces who have stiffened defenses and coordinated efforts with Syrian militias along a 30-mile stretch of the Iraq-Syria border.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar fell to a one-month low versus a basket of currencies on Thursday on a less upbeat U.S. growth outlook after the passage of major tax cuts, while bitcoin declined for a second day after South Korea stiffened rules on cryptocurrency trading.
For 25 years she stitched together scraps of fabric, pieces of old socks, and fragments of flat or hand-coiled paper, after first soaking or covering them in paint, which stiffened the individual units as well as permeated her sewn accretions with a subtly shifting monochromatic tonality.
By the time many of us are in our mid to late 50s, portions of our heart muscle have begun to atrophy and weaken, and our major cardiac arteries — the blood vessels that move blood from our hearts and to the rest of the body — have stiffened.
It says helpful things like: "SILVERSTONE GP - M3 - FSprings +2 N/mm Result 2:58.338", which years later tells me that I stiffened the front springs of a BMW M3 at the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit and set a lap time of two minutes, fifty-eight seconds and change.
Today, European authorities have stiffened their resistance not only to new arrivals, but to the hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers who arrived years before and remain in an eerie liminal zone: forbidden to live or work freely in Europe and unwilling, or often unable, to go home.
Less formal than a structured hat but more of a style statement than an Alice band (a thin headband typically made of plastic or stiffened fabric), headbands are fast becoming the go-to accessory for Kate who first wore the look for her own son's christening last summer.
There are three large wall works and a sculpture — the first by this artist — composed of four sections hanging down from the ceiling, forming a semi-enclosed space, along with two smaller pieces, one of which could be seen as a sketch made from linen threads stiffened with oil paint.
The analysts put together this chart, reprinted here with permission, to show that Netflix's subscriber numbers kept going up and to the right even as competition stiffened: "Netflix's incremental net subscriber additions have grown continuously despite significant competitive pressure," Goldman Sachs analyst Heath Terry said in a note to clients.
The streetlights shed pearls that night,stray dogs ran but did not bark at the strangeshadows; the Minister of All could not sleep,mosquitoes swarmed around his net,his portrait and his pitcher and drinking glass;the flags stiffened on the embassy building butdid not fall when the machine guns flared.
But Mitford also, she tells her male friend, knows someone else who knows the mature Austen, and who suggests that Austen's character has changed: "A friend of mine, who visits her now, says that she has stiffened into the most perpendicular, precise, taciturn piece of 'single blessedness' that ever existed".
All the weaknesses that plagued "The Phantom Menace" 20 years ago are still readily apparent in 2019: the actors stiffened by dialogue that must have sounded snappier in its original Huttese; the nonaction scenes that alternately appeal to the very young or to grown-ups stuck in meetings all day; the midi-chlorians.
To pluck only Western examples, there is no single "traditional" model that can encompass strong, silent types and romantic poets, chivalric knights and laconic cowboys, the sorrowing Young Werther and the stiffened upper lip, the machismo of the Mediterranean and the mysticism of the Celts, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant and John Wayne.
In the 80-minute speech, she repeated the same catalog of beliefs in freedom and equal treatment she had made as an implicit criticism of President-elect Donald J. Trump, but also stiffened her position on the veil and suggested that Germany would be more cautious in welcoming migrants in the future.
Louisville's defense stiffened after Western Kentucky drove all the way to the 1-yard line, but the Cardinals dropped Shanley for losses on back-to-back plays, and then sophomore defensive lineman Jared Goldwire blocked senior kicker Ryan Nuss' 32-yard field-goal attempt and the ball bounced all the way to Western Kentucky's 31.
A significant stiffened US policy toward Iran designed to tackle what the White House says are Tehran's destabilizing activities and support for terrorism could return the enemies to the cycle of confrontation and proxy wars of most of the last four decades, that could in itself cause the deal to slowly begin to unravel.
Joshua eventA Swiss cagefighter hit his opponent with strikes so powerful it stiffened his body, knocking him out in an instantA UFC heavyweight was winning every round until he got hit with a punch so hard it left his lip hanging off his face, then lost by knockout3 statistics show why Anthony Joshua was able to beat Andy Ruiz Jr. so easily the 2nd time around
" When his hosts, Parrish and Marcus, reveal that they're lovers, the bombshell strikes Liem on a visceral level, sending "a nervous tremor through his gut," and resonating more deeply than he'll admit aloud: "The small hairs on his arms and on the back of his neck stiffened as they'd done before whenever another boy, deliberately or by chance, had brushed his elbow, sometimes his knee.
Considering Apple knew how easily the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus would bend even before it launched, coupled with the fact the logic board was eventually stiffened with epoxy to prevent touch disease from happening, suggests to me that Apple was doing everything it could to avoid stating what now seems obvious: the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus designs were flawed because they lacked the required strength for normal everyday use.
Ted PoeLloyd (Ted) Theodore PoeSenate Dem to reintroduce bill with new name after 'My Little Pony' confusion Texas New Members 2019 Cook shifts two House GOP seats closer to Dem column MORE (R-Texas) and Zoe LofgrenZoe Ellen LofgrenKey House Republican demands answers on federal election security efforts Live coverage: Mueller testifies before Congress House fails to pass temporary immigration protections for Venezuelans MORE (D-Calif.), which would have stiffened privacy requirements, failed 12-21 on Wednesday, after committee leaders warned it would sink the underlying bill.
Joshua eventA Swiss cagefighter hit his opponent with strikes so powerful it stiffened his body, knocking him out in an instantA UFC heavyweight was winning every round until he got hit with a punch so hard it left his lip hanging off his face, then lost by knockout3 statistics show why Anthony Joshua was able to beat Andy Ruiz Jr. so easily second time aroundAndy Ruiz Jr. says he lost his world titles to Anthony Joshua because he was undertrained, overweight, and partied for 3 months
The milk float with its thin mosquito whine straining through larch and elder from the lane, the nervous bottles in their metal basket intent on music but without a tune, the milkman in his doctor's stubby coat and sailor's rakish dark-blue canvas cap are all invisible, imagined/dreamed beyond my curtains in the early light, along with tissue footprints in the frost, our rinsed-out empties, and the rolled-up note exchanged for bottles with their silver tops the blue tits have already broken through to sip the stiffened plugs of cream before we come downstairs and bring our order in. 3.
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