Penalties for kidnapping, theft and white-collar crime were also toughened, with longer jail terms prescribed.
The squeeze in the mortgage market has intensified as lenders have raised rates and toughened terms.
The nation's aviation security system remains far from perfect despite toughened measures since September 11.
Over the years, these sanctions have been eased or toughened depending on political winds.
North Korea announced last month it would conduct a test to protest the toughened U.N. sanctions.
Mayor Reepalu notes that Sweden has toughened anti-discrimination laws and is working to validate foreign qualifications.
The moratorium was lifted in October of that year, but regulations governing offshore drilling were later toughened.
"That last race toughened him up, he needed that, " Baffert said about Flashback, who won the Robert B.
As it is, America, which had at first seemed prepared to tolerate the coup, has toughened its stance.
But the harsher climate has toughened the survivors, most of whom are now affiliated to yakuza gangster groups.
What is perhaps even more important, Corning, slimmed and toughened, is now in position to exploit its technical advantages.
Instead, Ms Morris and her successor, Charles Clarke, toughened the rules governing appeal panels after a wave of industrial action ballots by teachers.
He enjoys the loyalty of around 20, 000 battle-toughened troops a loyalty of quite a different order to that of General Dostam's men.
As Jim was famously tough on his writers, Forbes toughened my thinking.
If they make it past toughened border controls, they will be packed off to overseas processing centres while their claims are heard.
The verification clauses could be toughened, even though no power on earth can comprehensively detect the manufacture of the cheap little horrors.
Shocked by the scale of protest, police toughened and broadened their response.
It suggests, in fact, a politician who has gradually toughened his anti-tax views over the years but remains willing to boost some levies.
The protesters refuse to accept the government's toughened eradication programme and their leaders say any attempt to enforce it will result in violence.
Mr Anderson says that could be toughened up to the level required in civil court cases, to be proved "on the balance of probabilities".
The defense, which had been eviscerated by Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan and wide receiver Julio Jones in the first half, toughened up after halftime.
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The four are among dozens of people nationwide charged with violating that law, since Congress toughened it in 2001 as part of the Patriot Act.
Stones off the beach in Borth were used to smash a toughened window at the lifeboat station, showering its rubber in-shore rescue boat in glass.
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He also wants the rules to be toughened-up so that managers can be sacked if patient care falls below what Mr Francis calls "fundamental standards".
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Safety glass (thermal toughened glass) seems to be a good bet.
The course has been lengthened by 194 yards and toughened up with new greens, changes to 11 bunkers and the reshaping of fairways and rough.
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Those were grueling times, and Wong appreciates having been toughened up.
The law, named for a Lehigh University student who was murdered on campus in 1986, also toughened rules requiring schools to warn students of possible dangers.
The Home Office says that vehicle crime has been cut in half in a decade as a result of the introduction of immobilisers and toughened glass.
The website also features tables for council performance, assembled using toughened assessment that rated just 14 councils as excellent, while 11 share the lowest rating of poor.
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