The measures up for consideration include broadened background checks and stiffened penalties for firearms trafficking.
Republican spines are further stiffened by conservative bloggers such as Tom Del Beccaro and Jon Fleischman.
It has stiffened customs and passport checks and is limiting exit permits for merchants.
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Pittsburgh C Russell Martin sat out and said his neck stiffened up again after he returned action Thursday.
Outside, Tony Cheng patiently waits for a pair of the tai-tais with hair-spray-stiffened bouffants to climb into a taxi.
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"I just stiffened up in the groin and hamstring, I'm glad it's nothing more, " Ledley told BBC Sport Wales.
Ivanisevic called for the doctor, grimacing as his troublesome left shoulder stiffened up.
Security Council stiffened sanctions on the North after the test, with its leading ally, China, making the vote unanimous.
The air in the room stiffened with tension, but neither one gave in.
Angel ran around like a maniac as soon as I arrived, probably because his mother visibly stiffened at my presence.
Criminal prosecutions of abusers are generally the responsibility of local authorities, but the act stiffened sentences for stalking under federal law.
But Mr Panetta's words, intended primarily to pander to opinion at home, can only have given them encouragement and stiffened their resolve.
Asked whether they knew the Lanzas, Nicole Hockley stiffened and said no.
Quotas that were stiffened after Chinese clothing imports surged into Europe in 2005 are set to expire at the end of this year.
She stiffened and moved away from me, but I turned up the music and we settled back to drive and watch the moon come up.
Yet the authoritarianism of her father, an army colonel, as well as his belief that daughters were not fit for higher education, stiffened her political resolve.
Driving this car, day in, day out, we found the power to be fairly seductive, with--thanks to a stiffened chassis versus the base Passat--an overall agile feel.
Once we spent the holidays high up in the Swiss Alps, where my body stiffened at the sight of deep hollow chasms emptied out of the rocky earth.
She cupped the wasps in her hand, the window frame shuddering beside her, as the storm sneaked in a draft to stir the dead wings, their stiffened weightlessness.
She walks as though freshly risen from the dead, patrolling the streets and corridors in a stiffened glide, with those dark, deep-sunk eyes of hers staring hard ahead.
The resilience of the protest movement seems, in fact, to have stiffened the spine of those parts of Egypt's opposition that were originally receptive to Mr Suleiman's overtures.
But Hungary and other countries have stiffened Croatian resistance to other Russian plans, such as the attempt to gain control of an oil pipeline from the Croatian coast to Hungary.
It also stiffened rules on arbitrators' qualifications and record-keeping.
The Supreme Court stiffened the law which shows that the administration is respecting the legal branch as compared to Venezuela which had the majority of Supreme Court judges resign in the first year of Chavez's rule.
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Spectacular assaults carried out in mid-April by Haqqani in Kabul and elsewhere have stiffened the Obama administration's resolve not to say sorry over the border deaths (and so hand election ammunition to the Republicans back home).
That, in turn, has stiffened opposition to further official gold sales, and, in particular, to the sale of another 300 tonnes planned by the International Monetary Fund to help pay for debt relief for poor countries.
The fact that the most vociferous calls for Mr Rumsfeld's resignation are coming from the same politicians who want Mr Bush to return to Texas this November, from the likes of Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House, and Senator Teddy Kennedy, has stiffened resolve.
That stiffened Beijing's resolve.
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