7 sentences with “hardened”

Meanwhile, Protestant leaders were equally hardened in their beliefs and actively inculcated devotion and loyalty in their followers.

At the same time, in the course of the sixteenth century, rival religious confessions declared more specific and hardened doctrines of belief.

And no matter how much time had hardened the tycoon, the mere mention of his mother never failed to evoke in his hard features something close to tenderness.

All the world's mountain ranges have large deposits of hardened snow, and when this hardened snow finds a passage, it overcomes the edge of the basin and, with astonishing slowness, begins to descend. A glacier is born.

There were exceptions, especially in the Holy Roman Empire, but beliefs clearly hardened in the course of the sixteenth century: what toleration had existed in the first decades of the Reformation era tended to disappear.

In July 1814, forty-five hardened British soldiers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay and burned Washington DC to the ground, forcing President Madison and his wife to run for their lives. According to one report, they left behind a dinner eaten by British officers.

Serfdom, which already existed in much of the east, hardened in the 17th century, and the free labour, fees and taxes that peasants owed to their lords became harsher (for example, the Austrian labour obligation was known as the "robot", and could consist of up to 100 days' work a year).