But the bright lights conceal a gambling area where flinty-eyed dealers watch over hard-core gamblers, many lined up three deep at the blackjack tables, loudly outbidding one another for hands.
It was "deeply dismayed by the actions of the Zimbabwean government - which is riding roughshod over hard-won democratic rights", the party said.
The outcome in Iraq is not so clear-cut, but characterizing it as a victory is the triumph of hope over hard-won lessons.
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When currency markets become over-inflated, hard assets like commodities come into more favor with investors.
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Investors would think a lot harder before they handed over their hard-earned savings to so-called investment professionals.
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Wasps rugby director Ian McGeechan and coach Shaun Edwards were among those to hit out at Ashton over his hard-line stance.
Investors are being asked to turn over numerous hard-to-get documents in short order.
The No Labels movement has identified the deficit as a major issue where Americans simply want solutions over hard-line positions.
So, skittering over the hard-pack it has a tendency to rattle against a helmet's exterior, something which you can definitely hear in the video.
She shut the car door and pulled the stroller backward over the hard-packed snow on the sidewalk and up the long flight of steps to her porch.
Mr Boehner and other Republican leaders spent all day Thursday arm-twisting dissident lawmakers, but they were unable to win over enough conservative hard-liners.
This charge, which is rolled out whenever a rating has proved over-generous, is hard to stand up.
Of course, the story is over-the-top and absurd and tries too hard to be relevant.
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He'd slipped over the line from hard-nosed to incendiary in an episode that will always brand him.
Did the Administration disastrously over-reach by trying so hard to stop the Sequester?
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It is hard to over-estimate the gravity of Japan's situation.
Call it a speculative mania if you must, but zero interest rates are forcing otherwise cautious cash savers the world over to seek out hard-asset protection for their wealth.
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The problem is that as there are relatively few heart transplants - just over 150 a year in the UK - it is hard to establish good practice guidelines.
"Schooner's MySQL and NoSQL solutions combined with the LSI WarpDrive card provide industry-leading performance for database and key-value stores, delivering over 9x performance throughput increase relative to hard drive configurations and over 3x performance throughput increase relative to alternative PCIe flash-based solutions, " said Dr. John Busch, founder and CTO, Schooner Information Technologies.
Fab.com plans to improve shipping even further by doubling its 50-person tech team in the next year in order to have more control over the supply chain, including hard-to-ship products, the company told Forbes in May.
My colleagues and I have interviewed quite a lot of newly self-employed people over the past year or so that fit this hard-working stereotype.
But dictatorships can make a mess of things, too, if dictatorial over-confidence leads them to ignore hard facts.
This is why the current take-over buzz around RIM is hard to believe.
Now, I don't think this is the best option just because we just talked to an auto worker over here -- that's hard work.
By depriving the voters of a free choice, Mexico's politicians have cast a cloud of uncertainty over democracy and a question over their country's hard-won economic stability.
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Ched Evans took over up front for the hard-working Vokes after 62 minutes, while defender Lewin Nyatanga was sacrificed as David Cotterill beefed up Wales' attacking options.
The party reflected the frustration of many of Birmingham's Muslims that the Labour government was, in their view, not pushing India hard enough over self-determination for Kashmir.
Proponents of the Cypriot account levy argue that this way gets foreigners who have taken advantage of Cyprus's low-tax regime to share the cost of the bailout of the country's banks, which have been hit hard by their over-exposure to bad Greek debt.
The Woodhall Spa rider finished ahead of Bruce Anstey in the first race although it ended amid confusion with the officials failing to wave the chequered flag which led to Plater and Anstey continuing to ride hard for over half-a-lap before realising that the race was over.
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