hardened

“People buying manuals are this hardened core of enthusiasts,” Stokes said, laughing.

But critics say 25 years in power have hardened Kagame’s edges.

In fact, being at the centre of a storm about free speech seems to have hardened his resolve.

In the decades since the Oslo Accords, Israeli narratives have hardened, armed Palestinian groups have strengthened, and the control of the Palestinian Authority government has been eaten away.

What had been promised as a program to rid the country of hardened criminals was, right out of the gate, proven to be a sham.