America sounds increasingly determined to push its exports, and its attitude to China has hardened.
So why did India's prime minister make his comments which, without doubt, represent a hardened stance?
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He's talented but against a hardened fighter like myself, I think he would struggle.
But the prospects of such a deal have crumbled as China has hardened its position.
Suspicion and hostility has been passed on for generations, and at times it has hardened.
The consultation was first mooted in October, and since then Ofcom has hardened its stance.
Nor are they pundits, hammering away with a hardened worldview on blogs and TV.
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Factor in racial discontent and you get a police problem that would daunt any hardened cop.
The background is that chips that go into space need to be radiation hardened.
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And it is a little discomfiting to see hardened criminals in such a care-free setting.
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He looked like a kid standing next to these angry women with their hardened faces.
As attitudes hardened, Mr Putin insisted that no gas at all should cross the border.
Even hardened corporate IT attendees loved winning points and badges for sharing content at the conference.
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After a term, the nation is in shambles, and a hardened left-winger foils his reelection campaign.
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The answer in many cases blessedly is yes (at least until the hardened predators are released).
But Iran's sites are spread out and some of them, hardened against strikes, demand repeated hits.
Iraqi forces, hardened by three decades of wars that have devastated their country, are smart.
Today, Bhutto seems to have significantly shifted her ground and publicly hardened her position.
Amkor operates in a promising market, but its finances may frighten even battle-hardened investors.
As the relatives became increasingly attached to Elian, their attitudes hardened, and one can understand why.
In the Midwest the surge in foreclosures and the collapse of traditional industries has hardened hearts.
"I was treated like everybody else, like I was a hardened criminal" he says.
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But the latest move by the Russian customs service is making even hardened expatriates blench.
Below them stands a new cohort of nimble entrepreneurs, battle-hardened by that bad old past.
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These hardened survivors will never again be the compliant subcontractors they were before the recession.
When reports emerged that America was plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime, everything hardened.
Opnet has since sold the battle-hardened application to commercial clients, including a big phone company.
Well, a decade and more back, we used to import into Russia these very radiation hardened chips.
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It has been hardened by American aid and training and years of action against the FARC guerrillas.
Add to that racial problems and you get a police problem that would daunt any hardened cop.
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