• It's hard to decide whether Mr. Powell is using a double standard hypocritically or inadvertently.

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  • On a practical level, it will be hard to decide what contribution out-of-school activities make to the diploma.

    ECONOMIST: Education

  • Dedicated investment banks such as Goldman Sachs will find it hard to decide whether to remain independent, says Mr Gach.

    ECONOMIST: New dangers

  • Hughes recently told NPR's Andrea Seabrook that he wrote so many songs for the album, it was hard to decide what to include.

    NPR: Benji Hughes: 'Waiting For An Invitation'

  • Speaking at the 92nd Street Y, Kennedy said it was hard to decide whether or not to edit the interview, by historian Arthur M.

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  • This is a category with so many great ones to chose from, it was a lot of fun but also hard to decide what to include and what to leave off.

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  • Television match official Bevan needed several long hard looks to decide the ball had been grounded properly, but decided to award the score despite some disbelieving looks from the Ospreys.

    BBC: Ospreys 9-14 Scarlets

  • The Supreme Court spent 91 minutes Wednesday operating on the assumption that it would strike down the key feature of the new health care law, but may have convinced itself in the end not to do that because of just how hard it would be to decide what to do after that.

    FORBES: Obamacare at the Supreme Court, Day Three: Rapid Reactions

  • Mr Speaker, to respond to this situation, we are acting decisively to restore order on our streets, to support the victims of this terrible violence and to look at the deeper problems that have led to such a hard core of young people to decide to carry out such appalling criminality.

    BBC: Riots: David Cameron's Commons statement in full

  • The court also has no choice but to decide hard cases: that is its job.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • The hope is that as more and more Windows users see how easy iTunes is to use, they may take a long hard look at Panther and decide to drop Windows completely.

    BBC: Panther screenshot

  • That YouTube clip -- it's hard to watch and I can't decide if I should encourage you to do so or warn against it -- gives a small sense of what it must be like to live through any explosion, disaster or terrorist attack, regardless of its cause.

    CNN: The week of terror flashbacks

  • It was hard enough for Engadget editors to decide on 10 semifinalists out of the myriad awesome crowdfunded projects entered, including such futuristic fare as bipedal robots, high-tech puppetry and more.

    ENGADGET

  • Intel and others will think hard about that when they decide where to invest.

    ECONOMIST: Israel��s economy looks quite resilient

  • Hard-up schools will undoubtedly decide to deny pay rises to teachers, to help balance their budgets now they won't have to implement any pay recommendations.

    BBC: Teachers' pay rises pegged to performance

  • So if, for instance, as a benign god, you think your people are working too hard in the fields, and decide to provide them with a loaves-and-fishes miracle, they will stop working, assuming that they can now depend on miracles for food.

    ECONOMIST: Using artificial intelligence to bond player and game

  • While he was impressed with the results, Pfister says that there is an issue that may make it hard for doctors, patients and insurers to decide how to use the drug: In many cancer centers, patients whose head and neck cancers are of the same severity as those in the trial recieve not only radiation, but also chemotherapy.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It would be an irony if, after working so hard to overcome European hostility to their joining the club, the Turks themselves came to decide that the rules were too onerous but it is not impossible to imagine.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey and the European Union

  • Complications such as pre-eclampsia were hard to predict so it was not possible to decide which women were "low risk" cases and therefore suitable for birth at midwife-led units, he said.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Hospital overhaul 'under attack'

  • Although foreign policy is always hard to predict, since it depends on what others do to us as much as what we decide, this is a Cabinet that signals continuity rather than dramatic change.

    CNN: Second-term Obama will play defense

  • If, or rather when, Guantanamo Bay is closed, he will have to decide what to do with the hard core that the US authorities claim remains among the 255 or so prisoners still there.

    BBC: Top 10 foreign challenges for Obama

  • The partnerships are typically formed when big companies decide to raise cash by hiving off hard assets.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • National governments and the European Parliament must now draw up rules that will decide if an initiative is easy or hard to pull off.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Priscilla Cruz, a campaigner for education reform from Todos Pela Educacao, sums up the challenge like this: "The political issue is that teachers are voters, and in Brazil there are two million of them that can decide elections, so it is very hard to make changes".

    BBC: Booming Brazil held back by education gap

  • That's up to other people to decide but I think we should be very hard on these people.

    BBC: CHOOSE A SPORT

  • Except his knee still hurts, and there's a chance he'll decide to skip one or both of the upcoming hard-court events in Indian Wells, Calif.

    WSJ: Paths Differ but Goals Same for Nadal, Federer

  • However, should Mr Livingstone decide to run party headquarters has already promised a "hard-hitting campaign" against the Brent East MP.

    BBC: You are in: UK Politics

  • Just yesterday, Pepsi (nyse: PEP - news - people ) said it will introduce Pepsi Edge, its mid-calorie product designed to appeal to those who can't decide between Diet Pepsi and the hard stuff.

    FORBES: Smart Money Still In Fat

  • It is hard to say, as Apple traders and investors are divided in two camps: Those who decide with fundamentals and those who decide with emotions.

    FORBES: Apple's Stock Above $530, Is The Correction Over?

  • Now if they decide they want to stream something from Netflix, it might be little bit hard for them to settle on one show.

    FORBES: Netflix Needs To Go Deep Into Personalized Streaming

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