Bankers find it hard to face clients if their stock sells like a ragamuffin.
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And even if there were, it might be hard to take at face value because of a phenomenon known as "schedule padding".
At the apex of the job market--CEO searches and the like--it's hard to imagine the face-to-face niceties of traditional search giving way to LinkedIn's more automated approach.
Flip the tab onto its belly and you'll come face-to-face with the grippy, hard plastic that plays host to an extraneous bit of Lenovo branding and the slate's 5-megapixel camera module.
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It will be hard to paint a good face on an earnings shortfall of this magnitude.
It's not at all clear that RBS will come off more lightly, though it's hard to imagine it can face as much reputational damage as Barclays sustained by being first mover.
More than 840 South Koreans were set to cross the border Monday to Kaesong, which provides a badly-needed flow of hard currency to a country where many face food shortages, according to Seoul's Unification Ministry.
Reeva Steenkamp's smiling face is hard to avoid in the Myers' family home in the suburbs of the South African city of Johannesburg.
"We now have to face the hard facts that the attempt to carry through a quick cooling-down over seven days has failed, " said Larsen.
As in the 1930s, there is an exhausted search for the quiet life and an unwillingness to face the hard truths of the world.
It was time to face the cold, hard reality that finding a buyer for the company was the only way to avoid bankruptcy assuming that the company could stay afloat in the meantime.
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Entrepreneurship speaks to our belief that hard work and ingenuity in the face of daunting obstacles can lead to personal fulfillment and collective progress.
Health-care workers say that the respirators are uncomfortable and more difficult to wear than face masks, and that they make it hard to speak with patients, among other problems, he explains.
Now, he says, the NHS now has to face the "hard necessity" of reform.
It would be hard to justify prescribing Vytorin in the face of well established generic statins.
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Some observers are calling Windows 8 the new Vista -- a hard and mostly undeserved slap to the face.
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The mid-range Lumia phone sales have to ramp up fast over the next six months or Nokia is going to face a very hard tumble in LatAm and Asia Pac regions during the spring.
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Afterwards, Christie's executives tried to put a brave face on the outcome, but it was hard to dispel the gloom.
If "placental starving" is suspected, in some cases it might be better, later in pregnancy, to deliver the baby prematurely - but premature babies face other risks, and it is hard to judge which course of action is for the best.
With so much communication via email these days, it can be hard to pull the trigger and initiate a face-to-face conversation when you sense that an online interaction is becoming too heated or simply too difficult to do well online.
Clay learned that being the owner of a family business can be a lonely job unless you develop respectful relationships with people who encourage you, but also push you to face reality, think hard about the future, and deal with your shortcomings.
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The Niners are going to get hit, hard, in the face, in this game.
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But given the difficulties that its weak, poor, ill-governed members face already, it is hard to see others queuing up to join.
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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It is more likely than not that Apple executives are well aware of the perils that face them and are hard at work to produce appropriate responses.
Every community built around an idea, a principle or an aim (from fox-hunting enthusiasts to Freudian psychotherapists) will always face hard arguments about where the boundaries of that community lie, and how far the meaning of its founding axioms can be stretched.
"It's not easy to face a player such as Safin on hard-court, " said Gasquet.
She admits how pleased she is with the results on her face, but also how hard it is to reconcile the way she used to look before the accident to how she looks now.
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