Ronen Bergman

Israel's discourse with the United States on the subject of Iran's nuclear project is more significant, and more fraught, than it is with Europe. The U.S. has made efforts to stiffen sanctions against Iran and to mobilize countries like Russia and China to apply sanctions in exchange for substantial American concessions.

Israeli Journalist

Gail Collins

I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

American Journalist

Isabella Bird

The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and these are only tacked or basted, as the garments, when washed, are taken to pieces, and each piece, after being very slightly stiffened, is stretched upon a board to dry.

English Explorer

Sylvia Plath

That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

American Poet

Jennifer Tilly

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

American Actress

F. H. Bradley

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

British Philosopher

Michael Greger

Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.

American Author

Billy Graham

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

American Clergyman

E. M. Forster

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

English Novelist

Describes literal hardening or solidifying of materials or objects, often over time.

Physical Change

Used figuratively to describe firming up things like plans, positions, or attitudes.

Metaphoric Use

Can indicate a sudden physical response to surprise or discomfort, often involuntary.

Body Language

Used to describe a person's tense response to fear, anxiety, or other emotions.

Emotional Reaction

Often implies a quick and immediate reaction to something unexpected.

Sudden Onset

Speaks to enhancing the strictness or harshness of rules, laws, or actions.

Increase Severity

Conveys a more forceful or determined stand against something.

Stronger Opposition

Indicates taking steps to make a policy or practice more rigorous or demanding.

Intensifying Measures

 so like mud baking in the sun, your cookie gets dried out and it stiffens. Cracks spread across its surface. The steam that was bubbling inside evaporates, leaving behind airy pockets that make the cookie light and flaky. Helping this along is your leavening agent, sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda.

The chemistry of cookies...

 otherwise, the key gases inside it will dissipate. So, in the coldest place on Earth, they work inside a refrigerator. As they handle the ice, in fact, they keep an extra pair of gloves warming in an oven, so that, when their work gloves freeze and their fingers stiffen,

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 is new to the world of the undead you can tell by his incredible strength and ferocity there are four distinct types of zombies and this one is called a berserker this is a stage two zombie rigor mortis has set in throughout the body stiffening its muscles giving it

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 either onto a flat surface or into a liquid bath that’ll help hold the structure in place until it stabilizes. These printers are fast, producing the meniscus in about half an hour, one thin strand at a time. After printing, some bioinks will stiffen immediately;

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 uniform down to the ankles because it had to last for six years and there were rare but searing chance of slid I and the occasional graffiti Asian go home go home to wear something stiffened inside me there was a gathering of resolve and

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 Fat and cholesterol floating in the blood latch on, too, eventually building up to form a plaque that stiffens and thickens the inner arterial wall. This condition is called atherosclerosis, and it can have dangerous consequences.

How blood pressure works...

 And while at the moment of death the body's muscles relax completely in a condition called primary flaccidity, they stiffen about two to six hours later in what's known as rigor mortis. This stiffening spreads through the muscles,

What happens to our...

 Proteins can interact with these fibrils to slide them together, stiffening the tissue, or apart, softening it. This versatile tissue has many it aids in efficient locomotion, enables sea cucumbers to fit into small spaces,

This sea creature...

 called the primary cell wall, stiffen, pushing cell growth in one direction and causing the fiber to elongate. The fiber elongates quickly for about 16 days. Then it begins the next strengthening the cell wall.

Why is cotton in...

 developed into wings the insects had arrived life moved into the air and diversified into myriad folders meanwhile back in the seas those creatures were the stiffening rod in

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