toughening
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1. toughening - Noun
2. toughening - Verb
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of Toughen
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Application in metal finishing Tool steel toughening Nitrogen or other ions can be implanted into a tool steel target (drill bits, for example).
Chailey was a school and hospital for disabled children, and believed in toughening them up, contributing to the observant and determined person Dury became.
At that time he was also responsible for persecuting students as well as toughening censorship of the media.
ARKA – Currently Armenian banks seem to be under some pressure in terms of difficult economic situation, toughening of norms by the regulator and high level of competition.
At best, Warsi’s resignation might see a minor toughening of the language about Israeli actions but little change in substantive policy.
Castro called the new measures a toughening of the US embargo against the island, imposed since 1962, saying they evoked “an old and hostile rhetoric that characterised the Cold War”.