Beyond the hard and fast restrictions lies a gray area that seems to go on forever.
Cyber Monday was meant as a counter PHRASE rather than a hard and fast date.
"There's no hard and fast rule on whether age differences sink the love boat, " Singleton wrote.
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But hard and fast standards are what challenge athletes and bring out their best.
But there are no hard and fast rules about what kind of stick a player should use.
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Sadly, there are no hard and fast rules on this and it is really down to personal preference.
"That deadline is hard and fast, " Mr Carney said of next Tuesday's expiry date on the debt ceiling.
For years he has driven Chesapeake hard and fast to gobble up oil and gas acreage across the country.
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When his own moment comes, the gulf between fantasy and fact hits him as hard and fast as any bullet.
But in the hard and fast running of campaign '96, the line between effective and forbidden got ground in the dirt.
There is no hard and fast rule about how often and how long one must engage in self-affirmation for it to work.
With the various sides likely to seek legal advice to appeal against any rulings made, nothing hard and fast will be agreed.
Post Office management and their partners will have to work hard and fast to reclaim market share they surely feel is due them.
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"They offered staged and part payment and possibilities but nothing hard and fast, " Motherwell chief executive Leeann Dempster told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Unlike the First Minister" she said "I'm not going to pretend I've seen the books and come up with a hard and fast figure".
None of the new revelations go to any hard and fast conclusiuon that any bank official had more than hearsay rumors about Madoff.
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While there is no hard and fast rule, investors should look favorably upon companies that hedge at least 30% of their expected annual fuel usage.
Many of those correlations are quite strong, but they should not magically morph into hard and fast causations once they find their way into a book.
The Hondurans came hard and fast and with style, playing the sort of pro-active game Klinsmann, a former German superstar, has been trying to get the U.S. to play.
There are no hard and fast rules, but based on what we know so far, the percentage is likely to be on the low side, say 10% to 20%.
For large-ticket purchases like autos, we will need to see how sales in the coming months play out to form any hard and fast conclusions about the year as a whole.
But hard and fast numbers, accelerating sales curves, and a large addressable audience need to be something that is settled in the minds of everyone, rather than being based on a few assumptions and extrapolations.
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Few expect hard and fast policies to be put in place after three days of discussion and the likelihood is that participants will sign up to a document committing themselves to further action in the future.
"When we met, although we knew we were falling hard and fast for one another, we continued to say, 'I'm not looking for anyone right now, but we can be friends and see where it goes!'"
While there are no hard and fast rules, option pools for early stage companies with high-growth potential often provide for a pool of option shares that would represent between 15%-20% of the total outstanding shares of the company.
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