This bone, the preglossale, helps stiffen the tongue when holding seeds.

Other provisions have been enacted to stiffen penalties against all drug traffickers.

As a result, amendments and additions that stiffen the penalties for rape and other violent acts against women have been incorporated into them.

The victory of Parliament in Kuwait s succession crisis is likely to lead some of Kuwait s neighboring autocracies to stiffen their resolve against modernity and democracy.

The Western countries, Turkey, and most of the Arab world are incensed by the brutal killing and destruction, and pressure to intervene and stiffen international sanctions is building.

As they handle the ice, in fact, they keep an extra pair of gloves warming in an oven, so that, when their work gloves freeze and their fingers stiffen, they can don a fresh pair.

As they handle the ice, in fact, they keep an extra pair of gloves warming in an oven, so that, when their work gloves freeze and their fingers stiffen, they can don a fresh pair.

They are finding themselves forced to shift their own rhetoric and attitude in order to dampen their defense of policies viewed as pro American or US inspired, and to stiffen their resistance to Washington's demands and desires.