It is not hard to come up with ideas for cuts, just as it is not hard to find things to privatise.
It is not hard to conjure up a scenario where agreements on, say, tax harmonisation or exchange-rate policy within the euro group start raising questions about the full access of non-euro members to the single market.
"If it's not really hard, if it might not blow up, it's not for us, " says Weeks.
The government will fight very hard not to end up with a full bailout programme.
This hankering after the past is a way of not facing up to hard times.
This was interesting in itself because people who really have end-stage emphysema, as Cohan claims to, are generally not too hard to catch up with.
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Sincere apologies if there are any translation errors (please bring them to my attention if anyone notices any) but the general flow of the conversation was not very hard to pick up.
It's not hard to envision ads showing up letting users know that there's a 2-for-1 drink special right around the corner, or that the restaurant next door has the best burger in town.
While it is hard to believe Jones is making it all up, it is not at all hard to believe that in the hands of right-wing zealots, rabid Clinton haters and a local lawyer who got a piece of any subsequent television, movie or jeans deals, she became a lot more emotionally distressed than she was at the time.
But the assured tall tales being told at dinner parties across Manhattan are fantasies of propaganda that can not be backed up by the hard gritty facts.
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"This investigation against Lance, which you know involved multiple federal agencies and a very large, well-organized federal investigation and what has to be millions of dollars spent, came up with apparently not enough hard evidence to charge Lance Armstrong with a parking ticket, " Deming said.
Twenty years of too-low returns is hard (if not impossible) to make up particularly if you now need cash flow.
It's hard not to notice that Anontune is popping up just as the U.S. government's case against Megaupload is getting heated.
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But Keith and Michelle are working hard to ensure the pressures do not mount up on such a small boy, who simply treats art as "his best friend".
It would not be hard for an autistic individual to clock up that level of practice for the sort of skills, such as mathematical puzzles, that many neurotypicals would rapidly give up on.
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The layout of all the essential jacks does pose a bit of an issue once the whole thing is set up, but its hard not to be impressed by the elegance and simplicity of the system.
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The family is taking the latest news "very, very hard, " but they have not yet given up, Bailey said.
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This would not bother them, except that these days hard-up Berlin helps make ends meet by luring tourists who want to catch a last glimpse of the cold war and whose first wish is to see where the wall was.
It's hard not to notice when 18, 000 people pick up and leave town all at once.
It's hard to not be moved by the reunions she witnesses up close, right over people's shoulders.
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It is hard to not draw the conclusion that government forces held up the U.N. observers while somebody tried to clean up the crime scene.
McLaren's Jenson Button admits Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel will be very hard to catch this season but has not totally given up hope of winning the drivers' title.
Swansea boss Kenny Jackett insists that Knight has been put up for sale because he has not worked hard enough, with both men denying reports of dressing-room unrest.
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We start off talking about why a singular definition of what qualifies as "HD" is hard -- if not impossible -- to come up with in our ever-branching media landscape.
Example: If General Motors wants to slap down Web juggernauts like AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon.com, RealNetworks and MP3.com in the race to own the car portal, it will have to do what a Web company does: price for market share, not margin, and then try hard as heck to scale up rapidly.
The natural tendency of employees in a situation like this would be, at the very least, not to work very hard if, in fact, they showed up for work at all.
From a hard-nosed perspective, the other nominees who will not get up-or-down votes in this round can be considered casualties of war.
"We're going up there looking to hit the ball hard, not thinking, 'Oh, we might swing and miss, '" second baseman Dan Uggla said.
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