1.   She will just have to grow a thicker skin.

2.   We often talk among ourselves about developing thicker skins.

3.   And thinner-shelled kernels pop more quickly than those with thicker skins.

4.   All I know is that the green ones have slightly thicker skins.

5.   Colleagues say the Olympic experience has helped him grow a thicker skin, something he seemed to lack the last time he tried his hand at politics.

6.   Foreign investors have thicker skins.

7.   If Coates had been a U.S. Defense Secretary, he would have needed a thicker skin.

8.   I have a little thicker skin.

9.   In blue sharks and round stingrays, females have thicker skins than their mates to protect them against the male propensity for biting them during courtship.

10.   Paige now appears to be growing the thicker skin necessary for the local climate and says he is learning to survive the sniping, backbiting and second-guessing.