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Examples of strengthening

strengthening

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Because this strengthening typically takes place through a reduction in credit creation, it can produce a credit crunch that exacerbates the recession.
The interplay of strengthening and relaxation is an old theme in optimization that goes under the name of primal-dual methods.
Legislation aimed at strengthening oversight and transparency of private agencies took effect in 2001.
A pair of amendments in 1956 and 1962 authorized federal spending for social services aimed at strengthening families and preventing long-term reliance on public aid.
The horizontal line was breaking up and the vertical one was strengthening its position.
A fury for rights claiming has developed in the last twenty-years with media expansion and the strengthening of the individual's position in society.
Strengthening the nursing, midwifery and health visiting contribution to health and healthcare.
Confinement can be viewed as strengthening visibility rules to ensure that instances of a package-scoped class do not escape their defining package.
Branching likewise creates strengthenings of the problem by adding constraints.
Strengthening this force was seen as undermining the president's grip on power and consolidating that of his deputy defence minister.
What we see, then, is a progressive weakening of the force of oppositional salience, with a concomitant strengthening of tense.
The strengthening of the fiscal constraint (in period 45) completely modifies the inflation path dynamics.
However, it may be explained if the strengthening of clusters can be enhanced by the gestural omission of cluster-internal (alveolar) consonants during planning.
We also consider strengthening the guarantees of the library for elementary and full validity.
The published evidence for quadriceps strengthening using weights, for instance, is quite unequivocal.
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