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How to use the word hardened in a Sentence?

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Triangulation is a risky game because if you get the language off, you may commit yourself in a campaign to a line that makes no sense when you are governing, this is one of the hardest problems for newcomers and challengers when they are campaigning for president. By giving applause lines that work for the narrow segments of ideologically hardened factions that they are trying to win over for the primary, they can lock themselves into policy positions that are not sound when they actually win.

Peter Feaver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think being out here, and in the music business and being out on the road has sort of hardened my heart. My heart's definitely a lot harder in a lotta ways since I left that small town. It's amazing how that little girl melted that all away overnight a couple of weeks ago, i've been filled with a lot of gratitude these past couple of weeks. I just want to say up here on the Ryman stage how grateful I am to have been a part of country music for the last 10 years.

Sam Hunt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We've by and large entered a period of time where Republicans want to be represented by Republicans and Democrats want to be represented by Democrats, it makes things to where the person that represents those districts more hardened in their belief.

Pete Sessions

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Just the same as the founders did, they exhausted all their peaceful means, but they also rallied more people to the cause, won more people over and steeled them up and hardened them, got them ready for the confrontation. That's what we have to do.

Stewart Rhodes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The first-in-class aircraft carrier was designed using advanced computer modeling methods, testing, and analysis to ensure the ship is hardened to withstand battle conditions, and these shock trials provide data used in validating the shock hardness of the ship.

The Navy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You’ll be able to hear when you’re close, these cicadas live as nymphs underground for 17 years, and then tunnel up through the ground to the surface where they shed into their winged adult phase, living only 4-6 weeks. Cicada are tastiest in their teneral stage, which is right after they’ve shed into their adult forms, but are still pale while before their exoskeletons have hardened.

Cortni Borgerson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Democrats have consistently tried to defend DACA recipients, whereas President Donald Trump has flip-flopped on numerous occasions, sometimes he says he supports them, while other times, when justifying his desire to rescind, he says they're' far from angels,' and some are' hardened criminals.'.

Geraldo Cadava

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's a reason why we haven't had this resolved in many years, it's because it's tough and there are great differences of opinion on it and the difference between both sides has only gotten more hardened in recent years.

Jessica Vaughan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Some of these nurses are in their early twenties, it can break a hardened war veteran, so they will obviously be affected by this.

Rahuldeb Sarkar

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Turkish incursion into northeast Syria is a tragedy, it was long standing Jim Jeffrey government policy in two Administrations to keep that from happening and Hardened ISIS prisoners were clearly not successful, iSIS is pitching this as a victory for them.

Jim Jeffrey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A lot of attitudes have hardened on the subject of Trump and Russia and obstruction of justice, but nonetheless, if there's anyone who can cast a new light on this issue, it's the man who did the investigation and probably holds unique credibility with the public.

Intelligence Committee

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think that case was devastating to JusticeStevensas well as some of the other more liberal justices on the court, they could not understand how the conservatives could conceivably reach the result they did in that case and I think that has hardened the feelings of JusticeStevensa bit. It has brought out a little more of an acid tongue in some of his opinions than you would have seen in the late 80s and early 90s.

Edward Lazarus

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think the American people want the federal government to give states monies to build prisons so no hardened criminal is let out, as they say, before his time.

Vice President Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He appeared as a commander of hardened mujahideen, of an insurgency group, not the pampered leader of a well-off caliphate, his appearance totally mobilized Islamic State's supporters all over the world.

Rita Katz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Both sides have completely hardened their positions and are unwilling to come together and work out the differences, and that's the problem here.

Tulsi Gabbard

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Post-World War idealism is giving way, slowly but surely, to a hardened, militaristic approach.

Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That hardened approach, where everybody's in enclosed little silos, is not what we're attempting to do, we're more interested in keeping the perpetrator or attacker at bay so the first responders can arrive in time.

Bill Payne

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This has made international coverage, and Liberal Democrat hardened minority, this will strengthen their resolve and support for Liberal Democrat.

Liberal Democrat

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A large percent of ICE detainees have no criminal records and are more vulnerable in a prison setting – security staff and administrators at BOP facilities have spent their careers dealing with hardened criminals serving long sentences for serious felonies, and the procedures and staff training reflect that, this sudden mass transfer could result in some serious problems.

Kevin Landy

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Our federal prisons are set up to detain the worst of the worst. They should not be used for immigration purposes, federal prisons are for hardened criminals. They are not physically set up for immigrant landscapers looking for a job or fleeing violence.

Ali Noorani

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Federal prisons are for hardened criminals. They are not physically set up for immigrant landscapers looking for a job or fleeing violence.

Ali Noorani

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

My son, like so many others, they come back a bit different. They come back hardened, they come back wondering if there is that respect for what it is that their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military have sacrificially given to this country and that starts at the top.

Sarah Palin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This is a time when people see each other as 'types' too often, this adds a level of depth that can break up those hardened narratives.

Amar Bakshi

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Our clients are sold on the unique advantage of having a luxury second home that also happens to be a nuclear hardened bunker, this aspect allows our clients to invest in an appreciating asset as opposed to an expense.

Larry Hall

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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