It is claimed that these agents are capable of strengthening and sustaining the action of the heart under the circumstances just named, and also under the first depressing influence of severe shock.
The only sensible way to avert the evil consequences of heart disease is to strengthen the heart, and that is to be done by strengthening the body generally.
There is not the slightest occasion to do anything, or to take anything to make up for the loss of a strengthening or supporting agent.
In such cases those means must be resorted to which are so effectual in improving the condition and strengthening the heart of athletes.
Davis published in the Annalist, a monthly medical journal of New York City, a series of articles controverting the universal opinion that alcoholic drinks are warming, strengthening and nourishing.
He spent a fortnight in strengthening the weakened morale of his force, and then he tried again, making his onset with the suddenness and fury of a tiger's spring just at break of day.
No ordinary argument could induce owners to expend money in strengthening or rebuilding their income-producing properties.
She asked me, did I not feel already (as indeed I did) the enormous difference which the last six months had made in strengthening the revolution.
He was one of the number, and went to school at the age of forty, where he learned reading, writing, and arithmetic; he felt that strengthening his mind was strengthening his hatred.
The present assistance to be rendered to the Amir for the purpose of strengthening his country against foreign aggression.
All night and every night, the ground covered with snow and the thermometer marking sixteen degrees of frost, officers and men were at their posts, and each day every available man had to be hard at work strengthening the defences.
I feel perfectly certain and confident that the movements of Her Imperial Majesty's victorious troops are merely for the purpose of consolidating the foundation of my kingdom and strengthening the basis of my government.
As the exertion will not compel me to have any walking to speak of, nor interfere with the strengthening of my poor foot, I vote that we sail round the headland to the western beach on the other side of the island.
That this seriously alarmed the Imperial party was proved by an immediate strengthening of the defences about the throne by means of a change in what is called the Fundamental Laws.
Walpole, however, was for strengthening himself after the old fashion.
During this year, 1138, Stephen adopted a method of strengthening himself which was imitated by his rival and by later kings, and which had a most important influence on the social and constitutional history of England.
Evidently with some ulterior object in view, but with precisely what we can only guess, they had been strengthening royal castles in their hands, and even building new ones.
All this year and until April of the next, 1157, Henry remained abroad, and before his return to England he was able to offer his brother a compensation for his disappointment which had the advantage of strengthening his own position.
When Jaime I conquered Valencia, he had an opportunity to put into effect some of his ideas with regard to strengthening the principle of monarchy, and did not fail to take advantage of it.
The wooden roof was supplanted by barrel-vaulting in stone, and this led to a strengthening of the walls, reducing the window space, and to the use of heavy piers or columns and of exterior buttresses attached to the walls.
Themistocles persuades the Athenians to leave off dividing the proceeds of their silver mines among themselves, and to employ the money in strengthening their navy.
He then asserted and maintained his own absolute authority in the peninsula, taking into his pay a body of five hundred regular troops, and strengthening his interest by marrying the daughter of the king of the neighbouring Thracians.
Direct me to the heavenly life, enlightening, illumining, and strengthening me.
Both now appealed to me, in the hope of strengthening themselves by the accession of a partisan.
Continued motion, without fatigue, keeps the body in health; and the rapidly succeeding changes in beautiful, free nature have the same strengthening influence on the mind.
Very often, if you are known to be thus jealous, even your presence will banish sin, silencing the evil tongue, strengthening the weaker brother, and making the sunshine of a new life to shine all round you.
The question is rather whether it is not folly to expect that God will send upon us some other more powerful regenerating and strengthening influence, if we are now neglecting all this care and love and patient striving on our behalf.
And the other warning is this, that we sometimes let ourselves sink and drift into sinful ways or moral cowardice, by neglecting the helps which God gives us for the strengthening of a good life in us.
The whole method of the steady strengthening of the spirit of alienation from Great Britain was a working of popular feeling in channels different from those of ordinary official direction and oversight.
The test applied to them when the spirit of rebellion was strengthening was whether they would read or omit in their services the prayers for the king.
The council of war at Cambridge was meanwhile directing new works to be constructed, strengthening and stretching their lines of circumvallation.
But the German leaders were too prudent to risk defeat, and the Roman generals devoted their attention mainly to strengthening the line of the Rhine.
By Octavian they were employed in strengthening his hold on the West, and his claim to be regarded as the one possible saviour of Rome and Roman civilization.
Still she refrained from giving her answer, and Daylight went on strengthening his position.
All portions of the wall were menaced, and he went around constantly strengthening the weakest parts with clay.
We mourn over our own lack of a broken will, and yet we are strengthening the will in our children.
It has been argued, and that wisely, that only bystrengthening the African at home can he ever be respected abroad.
Its only possible effect was to irritate the Liberals, without materiallystrengthening the position of the Conservatives.
Shall I venture to remind you, my dear young friends, that the manifestation of respect for misfortune, suffering, and age, may become one of your attributes by the force of habit strengthening good impulses.
He would not hear of any strengthening of his guard.
Sir, my faith is often exceedingly weak: can you be so kind as to tell me what you have found to be the most effectual means of strengthening it?
These I have often found to be indeed the time of refreshing and strengthening from the presence of the Lord.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strengthening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
