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And he toughened up his rhetoric against illegal immigration, Planned Parenthood, and other issues dear to the Tea Party right.

The sentence had been toughened because as a juvenile he had committed a long string of petty crimes.

He toughened his rhetoric on President Assad of Syria, saying accommodate the reformers or leave.

Gaddafi probably will reject a toughened cease-fire because it makes it easier for the West to build up the rebels.

She toughened up, took the job in stride, fired some people who lied to the international press, and made some enemies.

He became toughened and hardened and adaptable, able to live under the most trying circumstances.

At length, the toughened sinews of the white man prevailed over the less practiced limbs of the native.

He was strong, indeed, but he was young and not yet toughened into that strange material of which men of the world are made.

His faithful Venusians, Ran-los, Ta-ira, and the rest were just on the other side of the three-inch plate of toughened steel.

"And I didn't know you were a war-worn veteran toughened by previous campaigns," she countered gaily.