You would be hard put to find a more learnedly concise survey of humanity's journey.
Even the dapper Mr Lucinschi is hard put to say what it means to be Moldovan.
Kenya's intelligence service is also hard put to monitor the country's 2.5m ethnic Somalis.
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Finely proportioned, evenly lit rooms anticipate hushed contemplation of things that are hard put to merit it.
Populist as Mr Chirac can be, he would have been hard put to have performed so well.
One would be hard put to find a more murderously emotional, know-nothing position than the one on DDT.
The Palestinian Authority will be hard put to contain the seething resentment against Israel--and against the unfulfilled Wye agreement.
America might be hard put to win the support of many big countries other than Britain, and maybe of any.
When inflation is running at more than 100, 000% a year, even the cleverest economists are hard put to know what to do.
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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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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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.
Yet obituary writers in British newspapers, most of them kind to Mrs Castle's memory, have been hard put to point to accomplishments of hers that have endured.
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.
He jokes that in the end the baskets were so equal in value that the brothers were hard put to choose and even mulled tossing a coin.
Meanwhile, aliens including fathead minnows, channel catfish and common carp, which would have been hard put to survive in the savage waters of the undammed canyon, have moved in.
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.
But the Chinese firm will be hard put to run Slavneft without local cooperation which makes some observers suspect it is really only in the auction to bid up the price.
But Ben Broadbent thinks it is increasingly hard to put it all down to a shortage of demand.
My parents had worked extremely hard to put their children through college without debt.
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"We worked so hard to put ourselves in position and control our fate, " he said.
And the synergy that looks good on paper is proving hard to put into practice.
The Saturn V engines could be priceless historically, but hard to put a cash value on.
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However, if they are not willing to work hard and put in the effort, they won't succeed.
But still it's hard to put one's finger on exactly why many people find spitting so repugnant.
On the other hand, the Iranian government is trying hard to put an end to this trend.
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