The ad suggested that as the governor of Texas, Bush failed to take a hard stand against a murderous 1998 attack by three whites on a black man, James Byrd in Jasper, Texas.
This charge, which is rolled out whenever a rating has proved over-generous, is hard to stand up.
It is hard to stand up to the massive pressure being brought to bear against Israel every day.
"As an adult, it's hard to stand by silently when you know what these kids are going through, " Loker says.
Less attention to character, coherence and suspense, the very qualities that made "Die Hard" stand out in the first place.
It is hard to stand before you without Scott Bates behind me.
With so many colleges seeking donations, it's hard to stand out.
And while there's arguably still some sense of hyperbole in the notion of the "next industrial revolution" (as 3D-printing evangelist Bre Pettis loves to put it), it's hard to stand here in the well-lit warehouse amongst the buzz of machinery and ideas and not appreciate the sentiment.
But I've loved it and hope my hard work will stand me in good stead.
You may or may not give a hoot about clothes, but it's hard not to celebrate the values of monumental, nose-to-the-sewing-machine hard work that stand behind the flamboyance.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), which performs its own crash testing and ratings, takes a hard-line stand: It does not recommend any small cars or SUVs for younger drivers.
Leroy lost a hand and those wounds in his legs sometimes make it hard for him to stand.
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Fact: the ethic of the immigrant is and always has been to stand for hard work and family values (the latter something for which M Le Pen rather ironically claims to be the champion).
Rights groups have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is serving his final year in office, to take a tougher stand against hard-line Muslim groups fomenting religious conflict in several parts of the country.
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The insurgency has a strategy which is persistently pursued of attacking the Iraqi police and army, not only recruits but those also actually in action and in uniform, to try to make it as hard as possible to stand up those forces.
But even more important, remember, we stand for a hard-nosed defence of freedom.
But unless his accusers come up with hard evidence, he deserves to stand as a hero.
But the claim that the recovery is a fake does not stand when so many hard numbers are pointing sharply upwards.
As Lance Armstrong discovered the hard way, Nike would not stand behind him once it became clear that his past accomplishments had been tarnished with the taint of PED use.
Indeed it does: Best Buy populates its shelves and tables with a huge number of product SKUs, often without enough educational content or curation, with associates who are not necessarily intimately familiar with all products making it hard for any given vendor to stand out.
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Finally, the internet craze made it hard for Carmax's brand to stand out as others rushed to sell used cars online.
"It's really hard to find people or leaders that stand for something good and stay firm, " he said of the restaurant chain.
But this looks like Saddam's last stand, and it is hard to imagine he will not hide and use the weapons he has.
These are the principles our new majority will stand for, and we hope you will stand with us in the hard work that lies ahead.
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So we'll pass along these predictions from Shaw Wu, based on supposed deals between Apple and PortalPlayer (who currently supplies the chips for Apple's hard drive-based players, but stand to derive high revenues from new flash-based chip designs in Q3), that he expects a 2GB iPod mini with flash-based storage instead of an HDD by as early as the end of this year.
Hard questions are being asked by those who stand to lose almost as much as Salt Lake if this mess isn't cleaned up.
For example if every vote was worth hard cash would parties be so ready to stand aside from certain seats on a tactical basis?
As his troops were being blown apart by French artillery at Waterloo, the Duke rode up and told them to stand firm and take the "hard-pounding".
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Casanova, who has risen from 348 at the start of the year to 69, did little more than stand on the baseline and hit hard, but that was enough to overcome Henin.
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