Now, the going gets tougher.

Military discipline is literally rigid.

On the contrary, it has become more rigorous and covert.

There is also a treble reel, danced in hard shoes to reel music.

Sequestrants, for better function in hard water.

I was lying on a thin, hard spinal bed.

well that depends on John!

Stock options, too, often stir passionate criticism.

Promise me that you won't be hard and cruel to John.

Ironically, Hishamuddin Hussein is far from an Islamic hard liner.

Predictably, Turner came in for severe criticism from City of London bankers and the British Treasury.

She carved out a successful business career in the rough and tumble of the post Soviet gas industry.

Soft power without the backing of hard power changes little witness Iran.

Tightening fiscal policy would go a long way towards boosting confidence in the US.

The list was a compromise that included moderate conservatives and even some moderate hardliners.

Geoffroy was a bitter critic of Voltaire and his followers, and made for himself many enemies.

In addition, a successful leader needs the hard power skills of organizational and Machiavellian political capacity.

The Last Juror is a 2004 legal thriller novel by John Grisham, first published by Doubleday on February 3, 2004.

By this time, the body had desiccated, shrunken, and the skin was leathery, severely wrinkled and folded.

Greece is struggling to breathe, and European austerity measures are deeply unpopular.

These fall into two broad categories based on the shoes worn hard shoe and soft shoe dances.

It was published by Doubleday and released in hardcover in the United States on January 29, 2008.

The Indian government has come under harsh criticism from international human rights watch organisations for torture and abuse by the Indian police against Adivasi women.

Some praise VK for lack of harsh censorship directed at its users, others have been criticizing us for years for this very thing.

Since steel is less ductile than iron, the structure became more rigid, possibly causing additional fissures.

Here, µm and nm sized layers, respectively, are prepared by methods similar to stamping with soft and hard forms, respectively.

And yet China s reliance on economic policies that require the heavy hand of the state to achieve officially decreed targets had been fading. The government s renewed focus on such a target is thus another indication that the global economic crisis has strengthened those Chinese officials and intellectuals who advocate a socialist system.

And yet China s reliance on economic policies that require the heavy hand of the state to achieve officially decreed targets had been fading.

Executives at the institutions that were bailed out continue to maintain all of their privileges without the government requiring them to apply austerity measures.

There is much talk these days about hard and soft power, about America having one and Europe the other.

As for America, it is down in terms of both soft ideological power and hard military power.

Based on his experiences, he wrote La Porta Proibita ( Behind The Forbidden Door ), a highly critical book about post Maoist China.

But the charges against Khodorkovsky are as flimsy as they are tendentious the privatization case had been amicably settled previously, and Khodorkovsky has merely used tax avoidance schemes that are commonplace in Russia and that have been upheld in court. Putin's real problem is that Khodorkovsky is too powerful and independent for the straitened politics he wants.

Putin's real problem is that Khodorkovsky is too powerful and independent for the straitened politics he wants.

In competitive markets such as Silicon Valley, high salaries and interesting projects are merely table stakes.

D beat was a faster, more brutal form of punk music, and was created by bands like Discharge and the Varukers.

After a proof of concept on a stiff silicon substrate, the experiment was replicated on a flexible polymer based substrate.

Morgan did not see that they had an audience for their talent, while Hasselhoff and Brandy liked the act, though Brandy wanted them to be tighter.

The two seater hard roof version also saw a convertible version, the RZ (for Roadster Zagato), produced from 1992 until December 1994.

His vision was to enable man and machine to cooperate in making decisions, controlling complex situations without the inflexible dependence on predetermined programs.

These qualities simply don't exist in Russia's Sovietized military organizations, with their rigid hierarchies and culture of blind conformity.

But the boom generated by such beliefs cannot go on forever, because prices can t go up forever, and there are already signs of a hard landing.

Chances are it's not because they are inadequate, but because we come from a place of inner lack, and we ourselves live under the tyranny of a severe inner critic.

Despite tight monetary policy and foreign exchange regulations, the scheme has boosted trade and investment while reducing intraregional indebtedness.

The mere possibility of an imminent hard landing for the dollar and with it, for the US and world economy should be alarming enough to mobilize concerted action.