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When it has cooled enough to firm up, remove from the tin and peel off the parchment paper. Leave on a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

Prices will remain near the current level for the next few months as the harvest peaks in India, but afterwards they are likely to firm up.

If you're not on vacation, try taking a day off, or at least firm up some plans for an upcoming getaway.

But for those who have built the firm up to its giddy heights, the rewards must seem more palpable.

Last August the Americans finally got a sniff of the al-Qaeda leader's whereabouts, but it took months to firm up the intelligence.

So the next time you're faced with a choice that takes self-control, clench your fist or firm that bicep. Your will might firm up, too.

EXAMPLE: After several discussions, the rival companies have finally agreed to merge and plan to firm up the deal at a meeting next week.

How to let the tofu firm up in texture?

Relaxing masks moisturize the skin and refresh the skin. Stimulating masks promote blood flow and firm up the skin.

And if researchers are to rise to the challenge, they must first firm-up the scientific case for action.

Firms are reconsidering their hiring plans as they wait for the softening economy to firm up .

Fighting for survival gradually firm up the Romans, they conquered Italy, and 3 century BC to the battle outside.

I'll return to Shanghai tomorrow, if I can firm up my air ticket.

Feel your skin tighten and firm up as the clay dries to a light aquamarine hue.

I'll return to Paris tomorrow if I can firm up my air ticket.

We should encourage all parties to firm up the foundation of the world economic recovery and strengthen macroeconomic policy coordination.

If the shares can continue to firm up, we see overhead resistance around the $150-$160 price levels.

The chickpea flour sloughs off dead skin to give unimagined silkiness and the milk will firm up the entire body.

Press dynamic and your steering and suspension firm up while your throttle and shift response get more aggressive.

We should be able to firm up the agreement today.

Rail links ferried in millions of Chinese to firm up Beijing's control in Inner Mongolia and the Muslim Xinjiang region in the far west.

The game also explains card counting and includes training support and even strategy drills and flash cards to firm up your decision making.

It can help you firm up that handshake, which can be the first part of a first impression.

The rise in the number and size of lawsuits probably means that rates for D&O coverage will firm up.

The delegates in Doha hope to firm up these promises and create the concrete means to fulfill them.

But there are also many different types of exercise machines that will help firm up your body if you use them often.

Smooth away wrinkles, firm up skin, protect cell and promote skin elasticity.

I will return to Paris tomorrow, if I firm up my air ticket.

The discovery of Northwest Africa 2364 is also helping to firm up scientists' understanding of how our local neighbourhood formed.

Suitable to firm up the big flat wires.

They lost a number of planes; the count takes a day or so to firm up.

You can feel your tighten and warm up as the cream works to firm up your skin.

Before watering the cuttings, you have to firm up the soil.

Caffein can improve the blood circulation and firm up facial skin.

If the populist president really wants to firm up his hold on power, he will need to campaign less and govern more effectively.

Other full suspension systems firm up under braking.

Smith has worked the firm up from almost nothing.

We'll firm up the plan soon.

Put the pie shell back into the freezer for 1 hour to firm up.

planes; the count takes a day or so to firm up.

Exercise will firm up your muscles.

Growth may firm up later this year.

To firm up the field of justice so that they will have complete accountability, so as to the real deterrent.

The story is much the same in Europe and elsewhere as steel makers seek to firm up prices, which have fallen by 50% or more since last year.

Americans shelled out tens of millions of dollars last year on various devices to firm up their flabby midriffs.

In France, I have only one friend who has confessed to having had surgery, a discreet operation to firm up a sagging chin and flabby neck.

Last year, the total value of deals involving energy companies was $566bn, according to Dealogic, an analysis firm, up from $372bn in 2005.

These include the Pillar procedure, which involves using permanent stitches to firm up the soft palate;

PET prices firm up on higher upstream costs in China