strengthened

How To Use strengthened In A Sentence

• When healthy subjects looked at the concave faces, connections strengthened between the frontoparietal network, which is involved in top-down processing, and the visual areas of the brain that receive information from the eyes. Multi Medium
• The success in the election strengthened the party's position considerably.
• In truth, they worked superbly as a team - they were the duumvirate who, in the first, formative years of independence, effectively united and strengthened India.
• The difficulties in her way merely strengthened her resolve.
• The government's budget was strengthened by increased customs revenue and more particularly by a spectacular rise in indirect taxation.
• This result took Burley to the top of the table, a position they strengthened further with a win at Menston on Monday.
• It may have strengthened his hand if he had once recognised that Australia is still, as always, one of the world's havens for refugees.
• Infection control precautions were substantially strengthened in all hospitals across the region, and we've been abele to contain community spread, as I say. CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2003
• On Christmas Eve he started on his journey, and the next four years were spent among convicts in a prison at Omsk. He has described his experiences there in his “Memories of the House of the Dead” (1853) —experiences which, though frightful in the extreme, seem to have strengthened rather than injured him in body and mind, though they may have embittered his temper. Biographical Note
• Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft. Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports