You would be hard put to find a more learnedly concise survey of humanity's journey.
America might be hard put to win the support of many big countries other than Britain, and maybe of any.
Yet to listen to the managers' presentation last week, one would be hard put to include -- to conclude that they understood that.
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Lord Archer, who had demanded a personal hearing, will be hard put to avoid expulsion from the party he has spent a lifetime working for.
Even dedicated conservatives would then be hard put to veto talks.
One would be hard put to find any other nongovernment industry serving the public that has been as insensitive, as unimaginative in catering to its customers.
Millions more have left the cities where they migrated to work and have returned to their villages, though these will be hard put to support them.
But President Bill Clinton's long days and nights at Wye produced a detailed implementation programme that the two sides will be hard put to wriggle out of.
In retrospect, Croesus would be hard put to argue the bear market is over, the recession will be moderate and short, and the bottom has been seen in financial stocks.
Truly, it would be hard put for someone to argue that the depth and breadth of the calamity was something to be reasonably forseen.
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"What we found is that it may be hard to put a value on word-of-mouth but that it absolutely has predictive power, " says Omar Wasow, a Ph.
This is a longer way of saying I think it would be hard to put just anybody in a box, for two years of service, in one neat box so quickly.
But Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has put on what appears on the surface to be a simple case, but of course, any case that looks that simple has been hard to be put together.
Senior Lib Dems claim to be delighted that Mr Cameron has worked so hard to put climate change on the agenda.
Are we willing to shrug our shoulders and be helpless or do we refuse to put our hard earned investments and savings with such companies that are involved with these acts?
The Saturn V engines could be priceless historically, but hard to put a cash value on.
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Populist as Mr Chirac can be, he would have been hard put to have performed so well.
"The lads are pretty disappointed after a long, hard season and a lot of hard work put in to be second again, " he said.
Few expect hard and fast policies to be put in place after three days of discussion and the likelihood is that participants will sign up to a document committing themselves to further action in the future.
It's actually all starting to sound a little bit like Firestone, but given the sheer quantity of phones HTC produces, we wouldn't put it past 'em to be hard at work at several Snapdragon-powered phones with virtually identical specs right now, possibly with different markets in mind.
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Even the dapper Mr Lucinschi is hard put to say what it means to be Moldovan.
It's hard to be sympathetic for Synchronoss though when it put so many of its eggs in one basket.
If you put me behind a telescope I would be hard pressed to find the night sky, let alone Venus.
Some noble souls will always be willing to put up with low salaries in exchange for a chance to pursue the truth: it is hard to imagine John Rawls hustling for a bit of extra cash.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the energy and brains of many of these brilliant hotspot scientists might be put to better use if they looked at the really difficult problem of how governments, private industry and innovative environmental-finance schemes could help fund conservation.
However, even if the decrease came from legitimate employment gains, it would be hard to argue that an 8.8% unemployment rate would put upward pressure on wages.
Wigan's Emerson Boyce looped a header just over from a Jason Koumas corner but Sunderland could have gone two up when, one-on-one, Cisse smashed the ball hard and low after being put clear by Malbranque only to be denied by an outstanding save from Kirkland.
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