Examples of toughen

• Parents may think they need to "toughen up" their children when they express sadness.

• There were still major restrictions on political activities, penalties for illegal strikes were toughened, and government controls were increased.

• Rooflight: flat double glazing, toughened glass over translucent laminated glass, to disguise bird droppings and other dirty deposits.

• I focus here on the top-down part of that story - how the state government toughened up work policies so as to make a work requirement real throughout the state.

• It should no longer tolerate excuses for evasion of its sanctions and those sanctions must be toughened and extended.

• There is also the possibility of toughening up the law on kerb crawling.

• We must toughen up the law because fireworks have become more available.

• In particular, we must toughen the prudential requirements imposed on banks when they serve to offset hedge funds.

• Years of hard climbing tend to toughen a man.

• Just as we are toughening tests and criteria for learner drivers, we should have tougher tests for our senior citizens.

• I have insufficient evidence to justify making either toughened or laminated safety glass compulsory to the exclusion of the other.

• We need to toughen up our efforts before it is too late, and before many of our trades have dwindled almost to vanishing point.

• I believe that until the relative benefits of zone toughened and laminated windscreens are more clearly established motorists should remain free to choose either type.

• We toughened up the arrangement and produced a greater degree of protection for the textile industry than has ever operated before.

• Other possible ways of reducing costs include toughening up or expanding the requirements for licensing new drugs.