This is most certainly not a hard-and-fast rule, in general I've found it to be accurate.
There are no hard-and-fast rules that determine if an IaaS cloud will provide savings to your business.
Turner says it's very difficult to provide hard-and-fast earnings estimates for Northern Peru in these early days.
Faced with this untidy set of choices, a sensible philosophy would not make hard-and-fast judgments about what businesses belong together.
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According to Robert Smith, the BBBC general secretary, there is no hard-and-fast rule preventing 28-year-old Robb from holding a licence.
The alternative to such hard-and-fast exclusions is a system of priority points for operations, as was recently introduced in New Zealand.
Enter the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, which has become the first authority to pass hard-and-fast rules for liquidity since the crisis.
Decades of case law interpreting and applying the other provisions of the Bill of Rights show that there are hard-and-fast limits on gun control.
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And the tricky clinical particulars of any given resuscitation mean that the paper cannot give rise to hard-and-fast rules about exactly how long doctors should persist.
For one thing, there is ample time for reversals between now and April 25, particularly given that even supposedly hard-and-fast positions are evidently subject to change without notice.
There is no hard-and-fast decision rule or trigger mechanism to which he or she must adhere in deciding whether supply conditions in the oil market justify an intervention.
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While not a hard-and-fast rule, she says, women are more likely than men to get swept into a partnership by personal affinity for someone without looking at the business reasons for partnership.
The truth is that there can surely be no hard-and-fast rule for a country as diverse as America, 7% of whose population in a typical year will be exposed, according to Robert Ursano of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, to a traumatic event.
And never mind, really, that millions of dollars in orders would be booked and hard-and-fast opinions formed (and passed along to consumers) on what in most businesses would be regarded as dangerously sketchy information, open to many shades of manipulation and absolutely certain--by its nature--to change dramatically.
Not only are Iomega's award-winning eGo Portable Hard Drives super fast and super rugged, they're head-turners, too.
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If we had all the money in the world, we'd still want a toy in the garage, a sort of stealth sports car we could knock about in fast and hard--then park it on the street without fear.
In order for the Marine Corps to remain the Nation's preeminent expeditionary force, it needs to be versatile, fast-moving, and hard-hitting so it can avoid large, set-piece battles through prompt and vigorous action during the conflict?s incipient stages.
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The recent hot spell had left the course fast-running and bone-hard before the rain took the edge off for the first round.
But politics is a hard profession, and November's mid-term congressional and gubernatorial elections are fast approaching.
Indeed, the action pounds so thick and fast, it's a relief when hard-working composer John Powell grants us a brief reprieve for a brutal hand-to-hand scrap scored only to thumps, bumps and grunts.
The Hondurans came hard and fast and with style, playing the sort of pro-active game Klinsmann, a former German superstar, has been trying to get the U.S. to play.
While there are no hard and fast rules, option pools for early stage companies with high-growth potential often provide for a pool of option shares that would represent between 15%-20% of the total outstanding shares of the company.
The 6-foot junior guard went diving past photographers in pursuit of a loose ball less than 2 minutes in and crashed hard into the basket support when he was fouled on a fast-break dunk attempt.
These standards are hard and fast rules that make it impossible for, say, an airline-mechanic crew at LaGuardia Airport to give into the demands of impatient pilots and passengers when something appears to be not quite right with the landing gear on a departing plane.
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There is no hard and fast rule about how often and how long one must engage in self-affirmation for it to work.
That said, both NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce want to see the Doha talks resumed, and they're pushing hard for a renewal of the president's fast-track authority.
According to Hilco Real Estate's Mr. Nagrani, unprofitable fast-food locations are having a hard time selling their sites to other franchisees and shutting their doors instead.
Or online-shopping sites with real-time inventory synchronization, or real-time banking and investment systems, or thousands of other examples of the new face of the new data warehouse: always on, open to as many as possible, blindingly fast, and increasingly designed for the consumer as much as for the hard-core data junkie.
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When Gutenberg invented the printing press, he created a legacy that will be hard to dismiss in a matter of e-years (since time goes by so fast between new apps and phones).
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