The movement has caused the wealthy young white women, snobbish and scared, to harden into condescending racists.

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But it is quite likely that the compromises reached under Mr Bremer's supervision may harden into permanence.

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Will she harden into a tough shell of a businesswoman who sees the world as a cold place?

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An excess of confidence in your own own point of view or capabilities can harden into dogmatism, inflexibility, not listening.

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Tory backbench grumbling could harden into something concrete.

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The peace is broken by two young men in tennis whites (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet), whose polite inquiries gradually harden into threats and then into acts of brutality that feel both groundless and unrelenting.

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To preserve them for more than a billion years to make fossils out of ephemera a site first has to coat its remains in a fixative: a thin layer of waterproof sediment that will slowly harden into stone.

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The rays can damage satellite electronics, and if current solar wind conditions persist, engineers would have to take this into account when deciding how to "harden" their spacecraft.

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Hadoop engineers and contributors can work as hard as they want to harden Hadoop for the enterprise, but without the necessary skill set to put it into production, the efforts would be for naught.

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Schneiderman cited one couple from the Rockaways trying to renegotiate their loan for three years after Alton Harden was hurt on the job and whose home was later damaged by Superstorm Sandy, pushing them into foreclosure.

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