In a world defined by its hard lines and rough edges, a one-legged old man is a poor substitute for a leader.
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Everybody is positioning themselves, taking hard lines here and soft line there.
Most people are afraid to draw the hard lines in the sand for fear of angering a friend or losing a potential client or opportunity.
The pleasing, textured backplate ends abruptly on the edges instead of continuing to curve gently up to the front face, forming hard lines that dig into your palms.
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Both sides appeared to be holding hard lines and digging in following the landslide reelection of President Barack Obama, but during the first talks Friday each side showed more of a willingness to compromise.
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In the mirror, she looked sharp enough to cut something, hard fixed lines beside her mouth, her eyes too big, her cheekbones jutting like knuckles under her skin, up to her elbows in dirty work, cleaning toilets.
Extraordinarily, although raising money to buy second-hand ships is proving hard, shipping lines still seem to have little trouble arranging finance for new ones.
After mastering top spin, you can hit it hard and still keep it within the lines.
While I absolutely agree with these lines reasoning, they are hard ones to prove in court.
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Back in 1996 ICICI had only 300 telephone lines and clients had a hard time getting through.
Mr. Gates's lesson to managers was more along the lines of innovate, work hard and trust the customer through open systems.
The cruise lines push the ships just as hard as they push their crew members.
Before his hand can retreat, the old man storms through his lines, smacking the board so hard that other pieces jump in fright.
In this case, it would not have been so hard because it includes a number of possible lines of inquiry - not least whether or not Savile had changed his phone number.
When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).
Much of its code is simply camouflage -- 3, 000 lines of programming that make it hard to understand and even harder for an enemy team of coders or even hackers in the civilian population to copy and use themselves.
Transmission, especially long high-voltage lines that cross states, is extraordinarily hard to get approved, sited, permitted and paid for.
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It can detect over 1, 000 degrees of pressure, so you can learn to make lines thicker or thinner based on how hard you press.
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Supported by richly harmonic horns, a sweep of sentimental strings, and his own bluesy piano, Dr. John delivers his lines in a drawl that makes them hard to decipher at times.
We have worked hard to argue the case for two more tram lines because the benefits to Nottingham and the surrounding area are so great that it would be foolish not to pursue the proposals.
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CSX, which is clearing the debris from the tracks, on Saturday night was "working as hard as we can to get service restored on our lines, " company spokesman Bob Sullivan said.
"I wish everyone in our country could see first-hand the devotion, loyalty and amazingly hard and hazardous work our diplomats do on the front lines in the world's most dangerous places, " Kerry said in a statement Saturday.
Despite the new district lines and some recent health problems, Rangel fought hard to keep his seat, squaring off with his opponents in debates and taking them on during campaign stops.
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Finding new lines of business that can contribute seriously to revenue is hard.
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Thanks to the hard work of our research and engineering teams, our initial pilot lines are up and operational, putting HGST in position to introduce this technology first into the market.
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"We knew we wanted a modern house with big open spaces, clean lines, and lots of light, which is pretty hard to find in this city unless you build it yourself, " says Ms. Dobranski.
Greens and "smart growth" advocates will celebrate if money is diverted from hard infrastructure--such as improved roads, bridges, ports and transmission lines--which they insist would create enough carbon to heat the planet like a toaster.
We must empower a panel of 15 elite bureaucrats to make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care by rationing your care through long lines and government edicts.
"We've gotten out of some loss-making lines but in Japan relations with customers are wet, so it's hard to cut them off, " says Kobori.
But capacitor banks tend to be very large and hard to site near customers (who love to guzzle power but complain about new power lines or hardware in their neighbourhood).
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