Strengthened

They strengthened the embankments to protect the village from flooding.

Suspicion that this amounts to insider trading has strengthened.

Corporate governance and accountability are being strengthened.

They strengthened the dikes to protect the village against the flood.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.

Am I supposed to, single-handedly, strengthened only by the mythical magic of my forebears, in heroic fashion smash his armies and save the beautiful princess from his clutches to finally deliver him to...

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Any one on seeing that would have been strengthened.

And it was told the old man: Behold thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And being strengthened, he sat on his bed.

The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come: may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.