Mr Phillips said another factor contributing to feelings of isolation was that people were working harder than ever before.

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However, the fear of not having income may force employees to step up to the plate and work harder than ever before.

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It has to be stressed to the patient, once you are off the pills, the work is much harder than ever before to maintain or lose even more weight.

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But after I turned down their offer, they worked me over harder than they ever had before, for a long time, and they broke me.

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Offenders were far harder to trace than ever before, he added, since they were now communicating through the internet and social media, rather than by phone, and sometimes leaving "no footprint".

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They will claim that traffic jams are worse, trains are dirtier, less reliable and more overcrowded and motorists harder hit with taxes than ever before.

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Both men had extraordinary careers, Mr Lee transforming his little island into a financial force in Asia, Dr Mahathir getting the Malays to work harder than they had ever done before.

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Opinion is now harder to discern or locate than ever before.

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Although the technical means to achieve this are now in place, and the low incidence of the disease makes the circumstances more favourable than ever before, eliminating syphilis may be harder than it at first appears.

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This week's threats make it harder than ever for the Clinton administration to defeat the bill, which has already passed the House of Representatives and is now before the Senate.

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