Prosecuting these criminals should be a priority and Congress needs to stiffen the penalties.
To stiffen their courage, the prime minister and his new deputy have promised a second sweeping reform.
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Though Mr Rutelli's plan offers safety nets to those hurt by liberalisation, someone will need to stiffen the government's resolve.
Romney's claim he "got tough" on methamphetamine dealers is questionable since a proposal to stiffen sentences never passed the Massachusetts Legislature.
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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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.
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.
Mr Putin's decree is apparently intended to stiffen political spines and spur the passage of a law rather than do away with the need for one, with conventional legislation seen as giving the anti-corruption drive a greater mandate.
Senators rejected an attempt to stiffen the bill's ban on federal funding for abortion Tuesday, and hours later, a group of five moderates and five liberals announced that they had reached a tentative deal on the public option.
The fork uses a high-end accelerometer from Analog Devices to measure any shocks and jolts, as well as an advanced fluid-control system from Enfield Technologies that allows the fork to stiffen or soften quicker than a tire can deform, typically between 8 and 13 milliseconds.
He condemned the companies' sales practices in the strongest possible terms and called on the industry regulator, Ofgem, to "stiffen their resolve and use their statutory powers to put an end to the misery that this company is causing to people in Scotland".
IBRA's employees have also been granted special legal protections to help stiffen their resolve.
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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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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As the rebels get closer to Mr Mobutu's strongholds and to the capital, Kinshasa, resistance may stiffen.
The question is whether such tactics will reinforce UMNO morale or only stiffen the opposition's determination to fight back.
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