21.   Non-Hispanic whites are now a minority population in metropolitan Miami, putting a harder edge to the language used inside places like the Frog Pond.

22.   The problem for Labor in this election is that Howard has smoothed the harder edges off coalition policies, particularly in the key areas of health and labor relations.

23.   These were people with a harder edge.

24.   They are counting on Mbeki to have a harder edge.

25.   Would art have a harder edge?

26.   In conversation, Shorter is good-humored and amiable, but a harder edge creeps into his voice when confronted with such criticism.

27.   Fortunately, the daywear had harder edges.