Mr Osborne's main giveaway was a qualified pledge to freeze council tax for two years a nice enough break for hard-pressed households but hardly a magisterial take on the credit crunch.
The first option reinforces the precedent of backing the stability of the common currency at any bailout cost but ignores the rise of German bailout fatigue in an election year, while the second option threatens to break that hard-fought stability apart.
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But for large periods, they struggled to break down a hard-working but unadventurous Blackburn side, playing with defender Christopher Samba and David Dunn, both having recovered from swine flu.
"Ballymena were well organised and hard to break down, " said Linfield manager David Jeffrey.
Some in Wilcox County say it's just an old habit that's hard to break.
The problem is that both NOx and diesel fuel are hard to break down.
When you carry your inbox in your pocket, it can be hard to break away.
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Morgan Chase, have found it hard to break into Wall Street's top half-dozen firms, the bulge bracket.
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It makes servicing debt easier but also feeds a habit that is very, very hard to break.
With Dean Keates and Paul Coutts playing well in central midfield, Frecklington will need to work hard to break into the side.
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With commercials skippable on TV and ads blockable on the internet, it can be hard to break through to tech-loaded consumers these days.
Shuffle Master, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, makes automated card shufflers for games such as blackjack and is trying hard to break into the videogame market.
But the championship bracket remains tiny and hard to break into.
But at club level he found it hard to break into the City first team and was loaned to Bolton in January, making 13 top-flight appearances.
In Michigan, where unemployment is highest in the country, at 8.5% in May according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it's been especially hard to break up.
All three companies are working hard to break that suicidal pattern by slashing factory capacity, buying out tens of thousands of workers and readjusting their pricing strategies.
England have got a fantastic squad with great midfield players, so it will be hard to break in but, fingers crossed, it will happen sooner or later.
I'll give it a good crack, but I know it is going to be hard to break in due to the way Kieran Campbell is playing at present.
Social networks have been working hard to break into e-commerce.
Nonetheless, old habits of political clientalism are hard to break.
"We don't consider ourselves a competitor with NetZero, but with the distribution we get from AltaVista and Excite, it shouldn't be too hard to break through their numbers, " says Katz.
Sometimes it's hard to break out of the bubble here in Washington and remind ourselves that behind these statistics are people's lives, their capacity to do right by their families.
As acknowledged by Scotland Yard recently boys are influenced by their older brothers and this makes it hard to break the cycle of violence in the absence of other role models.
Celtic had the bulk of possession in the early part of the game, but found it hard to break down the Accies rearguard with the home side pressing Celtic players whenever they were on the ball.
Doing it that way seems to recapitulate, in almost poetic fashion, the mistake publishers made a decade ago in putting their content free online, creating an expectation among consumers that proved hard to break once those same publishers started to think about charging.
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