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CT H 6702: Strengthens law requiring subjects of restraining orders to surrender firearms.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2013

Autism Strains Yet Strengthens a Marriage Booming’s “Making It Last” column profiles baby boomer couples who have been together 25 years or more.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2013

Strengthens financial protections for taxpayers and requires study of alternative sites.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2012

Nothing useless is, or low: Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Carhart, Margaret Spraque

On the barriers that dismay us Carve the charter of your birth; True endurance, like Antæus, Strengthens with each cast to earth.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various