His views have clearly hardened as the conflict in Iraq has dragged on and as the illicit weapons cited by the administration as the justification for war have not been found.

But views have hardened.

Mr. Frucher said there were already signs that Mrs. Shulman's views were hardening.

The conflicting views of patient and doctor quickly hardened into a stubborn and ultimately irreconcilable dispute.

McCain's views have hardened on this issue.

But views in Washington were hardening.

But if anything, Washington's view of Morales has only hardened.

The Akazu's view quietly but quickly hardened into an official government doctrine: All domestic Tutsi were fifth columnists for the Rwandan Patriotic Front.

He said he came to believe Mr. Bush's views were hardening, with the reinforcement of his inner circle.

By the following year, the agency's view had hardened, despite differing interpretations of the tubes' purposes by other intelligence experts.