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"It is up to his allies, in particular Tony Blair, to stiffen his resolve that NATO's demands be met in full.
Last week, the U.S. government and European allies agreed they would stiffen sanctions on Serbia to protest the massacres.
whose heart is smallerthan a heart should be,whose feathers stiffen
In a number of telephone calls, all initiated by Blair and some lasting as long as 30 minutes, she urged him to "stiffen the spine" of the Americans, as she had done when she chided President Bush for going "wobbly" during the Gulf War.
Unsurprisingly, Bennett's project in The Death of Outrage is to stiffen America's backbone, to persuade us to care about Clinton's misdeeds and to punish them.