A table and a chair next to the door, several handcuffs at the back, with a metal pipe in place of a curtain rod, from which hangs a metal chain.

The trumpet.

The sewage pipe is obstructed.

This is not a pipe.

There's a leak in that pipe.

The sewer pipe exploded.

He has a will of steel.

That chimney is very high.

The trumpet is a musical instrument.

The old iron pipe was full of rust.

Hard Turkey

This chimney is made of brick.

Austerity has failed.

The Global Economy s Inevitable Hard Landing

But today s terrorist threat is not Samuel Huntington s clash of civilizations.

Of course, the hard power of command remains important.

We need hard power to deal with such cases.

A district heating pipe and a power supply line were also affected by the fire.

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The cause of this state of affairs, in one word, is austerity.

It took hard military power to sever that tie.

But austerity can never be self defeating for the external adjustment.

Only hard power can deal with them.

Google is a company with values and principles.

There is a book out in the bookstore it's called Symphony In Steel, and it's about the stuff that's hidden under the skin of the Disney Center.

Beside it is the stunning water cube, or Aquatics Center, of Chinese Australian design.

Hard power grows out of a country's military and economic might.

Moreover, an influential paper by the American economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff suggests that economic growth falls sharply when a country s public debt rises above 90 of GDP.

Although Chen s government, under pressure from the opposition Kuomintang, later restarted work on the plant, design revisions have repeatedly delayed its completion. Opposition from local residents remains stiff.

So the policy prescription for solving the crisis seems simple austerity.

Opposition from local residents remains stiff.

The efforts of Kan s government are obviously hampered by a rigid and much fragmented bureaucratic infrastructure.

Do what Argentina did, or Italy. Give up the national money and create a hard link to a world class currency.

Hard and soft power can reinforce or undermine each other.

A hard link means a currency board, no less.

The roots of Greece s problems stretch far deeper than the austerity of recent years.

It is like a tube where a wounded soldier enters on one end and exits back home, on the other.

Hard power, which relies on coercion, grows out of military and economic might.

These examples show that hard power and soft power go together.

The world as a whole needs tighter monetary and fiscal policy.

Monetary policy alone cannot resolve the consequences of inaction by regulators and supervisors amid the credit excesses of the last few years.

So a US hard landing and global slowdown is unavoidable.

A heavy steel door and Mexico law keep out miners and other scavengers, by crystallographers are concerned about the elements.

In the context of weakening growth, the Stability and Growth Pact will face a severe new test.