1.   But hardened veterans of the public relations war that they are, each side doubts that the other means what it says.

2.   But the recent flurry of fatal accidents has stunned even hardened fishing veterans on the Jersey shore.

3.   Cruz Leon was clearly something less than the hardened military veteran that Cuban officials suggested and that many news accounts have described.

4.   Hingis expressed skepticism that anybody but hardened veterans like herself could handle the Open challenge.

5.   Nor did the soldiers appear to be the hardened veterans Russian authorities have said they are sending into Chechnya.

6.   The author recounts one of the many screenwriting campaigns that turned him and his partner and wife, Joan Didion, into hardened veterans.

7.   The game improves on the original Diablo, making it deeper, more playable and just as addictive to novices as to hardened Diablo veterans.

8.   The likes of hardened veterans such as Ramos, Marcelo Balboa, Jeff Agoos and Alexi Lalas stayed on the bench.

9.   The labor was so backbreaking that eventually only immigrants with no alternatives and hardened Civil War veterans would do it.

10.   These small farmers were less inclined than hardened veterans to risk high stakes, and the county name came eponymously to designate penny pinchers.