In between times Fergie has got to keep United up there challenging - with a team that needs strengthening.

But Lennie seems to have made up his mind that it's his midfield which needs strengthening.

There is another allied signal to Iraqi military leaders that needs strengthening: You will be held responsible for your brutality.

On the cost aspect, rearward-facing seats need additional strengthening which adds extra weight and therefore higher fuel costs.

The company noted that there was discontent in Providence, caused by so many men having been taken from it, and that the island needed strengthening.

In 1979, the Church art was declared a cultural monument, but needs strengthening and major reconstruction.

In 1883-84, inspections revealed that all four Pennsylvania class ships required immediate maintenance to their hulls, which needed strengthening.

Your walls are going to need strengthening, and you'd better lay in a goodly supply of food.

And "moving on" more successful tenants will weaken local bonds which badly need strengthening.

But the 1990 requirements still need strengthening, if only because they do not address the older, "grandfathered" plants.

It needs strengthening against the next siege.

Key muscles that need strengthening with lower leg stress fractures are the calves and the shin muscles.

Economically, thinner ply is preferable, but needs strengthening to prevent curved steps.

It needs strengthening to cover the records of local candidates in addition to candidates for state office.

He said that it needed strengthening in the northern province.

My faith, alas, needs strengthening once more.

When this round of appointments was made the situation would be reviewed to see if the inspectorate needed further strengthening.

Russian forces in the Far East needed strengthening to cope with the emergence of Japan as a naval power.

Typhoid being a disease of the intestines, that might not be many, but if any survived the worst of it, they would need strengthening after the crisis.

The 1978 law needs strengthening as well as renewal.