1.   The news has hardened opposition to the government.

2.   But Major has been hardening his opposition to achieving it, at least during the next two or three years.

3.   But the Iowa result portends a continuing necessity to appeal to Christian evangelicals and harden his opposition to abortion.

4.   Currency markets were already reeling from hardening German opposition to European monetary union for countries with weak economies.

5.   Now, though, they have hardened their opposition to them.

6.   The bombing also hardened Israeli opposition to a provisional Palestinian state that the Bush administration is expected to propose this week as part of a new peace initiative.

7.   The government set up riot police checkpoints to track the comings and goings of the farming families, and this hardened their opposition even more.

8.   Government efforts to rid Chile of the legal legacy from the Pinochet era will likely come under attack as angry Pinochet supporters harden their opposition in Congress.

9.   The Roman Catholic Church has hardened its opposition to the death penalty in a revised statement of church teachings announced by the Vatican Monday.

10.   U.S. Embassy officials from Sarajevo headed to Tuzla to investigate, worried that the murder would further harden congressional opposition to sending U.S. troops to enforce a peace agreement.