They knew that cold overnight temperatures forecast before launch would stiffen the rubber o-rings.
Doing so will only stiffen Chinese resistance and result in disappointment and increased bilateral friction.
IBRA's employees have also been granted special legal protections to help stiffen their resolve.
Prosecuting these criminals should be a priority and Congress needs to stiffen the penalties.
As the rebels get closer to Mr Mobutu's strongholds and to the capital, Kinshasa, resistance may stiffen.
To stiffen their courage, the prime minister and his new deputy have promised a second sweeping reform.
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They stiffen and squint when, in their presence, you take down their words.
The question is whether such tactics will reinforce UMNO morale or only stiffen the opposition's determination to fight back.
Supposedly to stiffen Gazans' resolve, the Qassam Brigades have begun to suppress the emerging good life in the strip.
While the initial penalties are relatively modest and for only three conditions heart failure, pneumonia, and heart attacks they will gradually stiffen.
Mr Davis said the National Audit Office would investigate any redundancy deal, which he hoped would "stiffen the MoD's spine".
Though Mr Rutelli's plan offers safety nets to those hurt by liberalisation, someone will need to stiffen the government's resolve.
In less than five minutes, the leaves would stiffen on the trees and the apples would crystalise and be ruined.
Romney's claim he "got tough" on methamphetamine dealers is questionable since a proposal to stiffen sentences never passed the Massachusetts Legislature.
Seatbelt pre-tensioners cinch up, and the front and rear suspension dampers stiffen.
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Communing with history is another way to stiffen the laxity of a vacation: famous buildings, battlefields and landmarks are popular and lucrative draws.
The Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, passed after the collapse of Enron in order to stiffen up corporate governance, has put off foreign companies from listing there.
Gordon Brown, whom many Tories authentically despise, has helped to stiffen their sinews, and to remind them that they have an enemy besides each other.
The news in the US though, had a slightly more positive tone and this helped the dollar to stiffen up a bit against the common currency.
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Members of her party have now drafted legislation that would stiffen sentences for convicted chaebol owners and their families, and restrict their business activities and investments.
Some people suggest that Mr Netanyahu has deliberately stirred up this wave of speculation about an Israeli strike in an effort to stiffen international sanctions against Iran.
In Caymans equipped with the Sport Chrono package, new dynamic transmission mounts stiffen up to minimize shift-shock and to keep the otherwise-bucking powertrain from deranging the car's handling.
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Information leaked later by some of the clerics present at the meeting indicates that the delegation may have, in fact, tried to stiffen the Taliban's will to resist.
Obama on Wednesday signed 23 orders that don't require congressional approval that he said would stiffen background checks on gun buyers and expand safety programs in schools.
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In recent months he had been trying to reorganise what remained of the party and also to stiffen the resolve of the fighters to hold out for political concessions.
Of course, it is hard to know whether fiscal rules stiffen finance ministers' spines or whether they are adopted by governments that already have the necessary political will.
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Mr Berlusconi neither promised to stiffen the austerity package approved last month, nor to bring forward unpopular measures that will otherwise be left to the next government to apply.
So too has the response of the rebel leaders, who have provoked a minor backlash by setting up their own rather crude whipping operation to stiffen the resolve of waverers.
With oil prices so high, small changes can save a lot of money, which is why companies that adopted ambitious emissions-reduction targets around the time of Copenhagen have tended to stiffen, not slacken, them.
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