toughen的意思|toughen的解释-里氏词典

toughen ['tʌfn.]

vt. (使)变坚韧, (使)变顽强

vi. (使)变坚韧, (使)变顽强

toughen

[ verb ]
make tough or tougher
<verb.change>
This experience will toughen her

Toughen \Tough"en\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. {Toughened}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Toughening}.]
To grow or make tough, or tougher.

State Sen. Walter Dudycz, who has demonstrated against the work at the School of the Art Institute almost daily since the controversy began, said he would co-sponsor legislation to toughen laws against desecrating the flag.
Included among them were Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, who was insisting on votes on proposals to toughen sentences for drug offenders convicted of dealing with children, and to deny many federal benefits to some people found guilty of drug sales.
As automakers fight to hold their shares of a shrinking automobile market, the nation's dealers _ the companies' first customers _ are being urged to toughen their act.
A group of Senate Democrats proposed a legislative package to toughen criminal penalties for insider trading, improve reporting of stock acquisitions and curb certain takeover abuses.
MacNamara says he may want to toughen division policies and give consumers more information about developers involved in lawsuits.
The measure, designed to toughen the U.S. stance toward trading partners and boost exports, now goes to the Senate, which is expected to pass its own stern bill.
The Transportation Department took a major step in a long-range program designed to toughen the rules involving issuing commercial licenses to truck and bus drivers.
On Tuesday, they will decide whether to toughen the ordinance that bans the local manufacture of nuclear weapons and their components.
A congressional plan to toughen the military's standards of accounting for missing American soldiers and give families more input has won the backing of retired Army Gen. William C. Westmoreland.
Residents of the college town of Eugene soundly defeated a measure to toughen an ordinance banning the local manufacture of nuclear weapons and their components.
The House has approved legislation designed to toughen the U.S. stance toward some trading partners.
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's cabinet, as expected, approved an amendment Friday to toughen the law regulating strategic exports to communist nations.
Republicans are also expected to press efforts to toughen the bill's penalties on drug users, a practice they call "user accountability."
We need the states to toughen their laws" against narcotics and violent crime.
President Reagan on Wednesday vetoed legislation designed to toughen curbs on textile, apparel and shoe imports, arguing it would have "disastrous effects" on the economy at a time when exports are booming.
Four years ago the Treasury set off a furor with a proposal to toughen the rules of conduct governing people who advise and represent taxpayers before the IRS.
Another rule proposed by the EPA would increase sampling and toughen standards for coliform bacteria at all the nation's public water systems.
On Wednesday, British authorities ordered U.S. airlines to toughen their security for checked baggage in light of the Dec. 21 attack, which claimed the lives of 259 people aboard the Boeing 747 and at least 11 local villagers.
The FCC is also looking at whether to toughen the Cable Act's definition of "effective competition," now considered three over-the-air channels in the same market.
William C. Westmoreland urged Congress on Thursday to toughen the Pentagon's standards of accounting for missing American soldiers and give families more input into decisions to classify soldiers as dead or missing.
While congressional Democrats have pushed the trade legislation, Republicans and business now are eager to see it enacted, because it would provide trade benefits to domestic industries and toughen the U.S. stance on unfair imports.
The groups are hoping the Metzenbaum victory will lend momentum to their fight to toughen the House version of the S&L bill.
The Bush administration, saying it wants to protect consumers by ensuring competition among businesses, announced Friday it would toughen enforcement of federal antitrust laws.
Last week in Tokyo, Sen. Max Baucus (D., Mont.) warned that failure to resolve the beef issue could toughen the trade bill.
Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole says she will toughen enforcement of child labor laws and seek higher fines for offenders.
Those figures are up significantly from 1982, when the disclosure that only 16 percent of tips were reported to tax collectors prompted Congress to toughen the law on tips.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein today seized all foreign assets from countries honoring the embargo on trade with his nation, just days before the U.N. Security Council was expected to toughen its sanctions.
A spokesman for the Massachusetts governor said Dukakis and Tutu discussed House legislation that would toughen trade sanctions against South Africa, including a requirement that U.S. companies get rid of investments in South Africa.
In mid-1978, political instability in Zaire threatened to cut off nearly a third of the world's supply of cobalt, which is used to toughen steel.
Congressional negotiators, breaking a procedural deadlock, have tentatively agreed to toughen proposed regulations on savings and loans as part of a $157 billion taxpayer bailout of the industry.

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