(a.) Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osmotically treated red cells, red cells partially hardened with increasing glutaraldehyde concentrations, and mixtures of normal and hardened red cells were used to test the method.
(2) "But if public opposition to further austerity measures hardens, the Greek government could find it even tougher to put the public finances back on a sustainable footing."
(3) It's not as if they were once tolerant and have hardened their hearts as they've grown older.
(4) Insertion of an adequate approximate amalgam filling and its finish after hardening is one of the basic preventive measures in marginal periodontopathies.
(5) Hardened skin was markedly altered physiologically.
(6) A comparison was made of the kinetics of the carboxylation reaction of bicarbonate-magnesium-activated ribulose biphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase purified from cold-hardened and unhardened winter rye (Secale cereale L. cv.
(7) Rarely has there been a potential presidential candidate so battle-hardened and ready for combat.
(8) With its huge corps of jihadists hardened by years of fighting in Kashmir, it is arguably too big to confront at a time when Pakistan is battling the TTP.
(9) However, several systematic errors of the method have to be considered, such as the influence of fat present in the spongiosa in varying concentrations as well as beam hardening effects and different calibration methods.
(10) It is the sort of malevolent onslaught that has caused many hardened media pundits to quake.
(11) Values of elongation were more than 10% even after hardening heat treatment.
(12) It’s not an entirely controversy-free choice, considering that Harden hasn’t been a starter for more than two seasons, doesn’t have the best track record as far as being a team player goes and at times has been bad enough on defense that you could make an entire YouTube playlist devoted entirely to clips of him failing to make any defensive effort whatsoever.
(13) Compared to conventional CT, the new system should significantly improve contrast resolution of the image and provide better image quantification because of its lack of beam-hardening effects and its efficient implementation of energy-selective imaging methods such as dual-photon absorptiometry and K-edge subtraction with high-atomic-number (high-Z) contrast-enhancement elements.
(14) An earlier debt sustainability analysis was leaked in the days leading up to the Greek referendum and helped harden opposition to the (less draconian) terms then on offer.
(15) He also signalled a change in policy on welfare, hardening Labour’s opposition to the government’s welfare reforms, by pledging to oppose the cap on the total amount of benefits that a person can receive.
(16) The effects of DMSO and cooling on fertilization are likely to be due to zona hardening by cortical granule release and to disorganization of the egg cytoskeleton and plasma membrane.
(17) When present during the egg activation process monodansylcadaverine (MDC-a fluorescent lysine analog) inhibits eggshell hardening and at the same time becomes covalently incorporated into the eggshell.
(18) In rigor control, crossbridges were most regular in muscles that were stabilized before freezing by prefixation in glutaraldehyde followed by 'hardening' with neutralized tannic acid, so all nucleotide treatments were terminated by such fixation.
(19) It main advantage lies in the screening of arterial diseases (very reproductable and sensitive), monitoring of the treatment (unrelated to the operator), study of hardened arteries (diabetes).
(20) Evidence from several sources indicate that the catalytic action of the peroxidase is responsible for hardening the FE through the phenolic coupling of tyrosyl residues of the FE proteins.
Inured
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Inure
Example Sentences:
(1) Growing up in and around war zones and in high-crime environments will inure a person to risk and violence.
(2) Perhaps we are beginning to become inured – thickening our skin and hardening our hearts, proofing ourselves against the pain to come.
(3) It and subsequent genocides could only have taken place because people had become “inured”.
(4) Many of us have become inured to shock at the revolving door between politicians, the civil service, high-ranking military personnel and the arms trade.
(5) Hours after the attack ended, US troops with sniffer dogs checked the building for undetonated explosives, as security officials inured to violence snapped pictures of the bodies and discussed the support the fighters must have received.
(6) The simultaneous changes of thermoregulation can be looked upon as part of the reaction of the whole body (also called inurement).
(7) Inurement by exposure lies at the heart of most of our leisure activities.
(8) All of us can help by advocating on behalf of the doctors and their patients, refusing to accept their suffering is normal, even if the world can sometimes seems inured to Syria’s pain.
(9) A federation whose other alumni include former president Jack Warner, the long time rogue whose scheme to cream off funds meant for Haitian earthquake victims shocked even those who ha become inured to his antics, and Chuck Blazer, who siphoned millions in consultancy fees to fund a lavish Trump Towers lifestyle for himself, his cats and his parrots.
(10) But when you’ve been the subject of a $250bn lawsuit at the tender age of 23, then no doubt you become inured to opposition.
(11) Air traffic controllers stopped work from 1000 to 1300 GMT and journalists stopped work for five hours.But the bleak weather and despondency among Greeks inured to protests against the erosion of jobs and benefits meant the marches largely fizzled, with two unions cancelling plans for a coordinated march to parliament because of the rain.
(12) Her public, now inured to Gaga dressed in beef, was bewildered to hear that Artpop has been heavily influenced by the performance artist Marina Abramovic and sculptor Jeff Koons.
(13) Churchill's "lion-hearted nation" could not have endured the last war, or the Blitz, without inurement training.
(14) He became inured to seeing dead people all around him: "We did not care if we died today or only tomorrow."
(15) If they are not inured to criticism, I don't think anybody is."
(16) Becoming inured to welfare, they cease to hunt for opportunities and investment projects, and lose the skills needed to do so.
(17) In fact, such incidents do not make news in China , for people have long been inured to them.
(18) I also added my name for a more practical reason,” he said, “the government of Bangladesh might be more subject to influence because of this letter than a government in the west, where letters and petitions and appeals and the like are always flying about, and politicians grown inured to them.
(19) I have become inured to the messages on the outside of cigarette packages.
(20) Studios have learned that popular franchises can effectively be inured against weakly-received instalments provided that new movies continue to roll off the production line.