The suspension of any of that activity hits the overall market hard in terms of turnover.
So Turkish strength, in terms of hard power, of soft power, in terms of economic relations, is an asset for any American administration.
At Camp David in 2000 Israel and the Palestinians discovered that even with goodwill it is hard to agree terms.
But as our briefing points out (see article), its military budget, in hard-currency terms, is not much bigger than France's.
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Even the weather is so warm that it leaves no doubt that everything is the result of hard work in terms of preparation of the visit.
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Will this be a replay of the incidents at the Votkinsk missile plant, where the Soviets gave our inspectors a hard time in terms of implementing the INF Treaty?
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Elizabeth Demers, a professor at INSEAD, a business school near Paris, points out that what companies lose in terms of hard cash in the early days can often be made up for in terms of the publicity they get when the news media applaud the explosive rise in their share prices.
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Yet the surest reputational investment for insurance companies may be the least costly in terms of hard dollars.
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Even so, it is an approach that the business world has found hard to come to terms with.
So defining the middle class in absolute terms is hard (see article).
Sylvia Nichol, a trustee of The Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust, told BBC Three Counties she had known Savile for many years and had found it hard to come to terms with the allegations against him.
There has obviously for many, many years been a type of feelings by India that, say, 150 or so million Muslims who are in the minority are feeling sort of hard done by in terms of the Hindu majority.
In terms of hard specs, the Incredible S comes with a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 backed by 768MB of RAM, a 720p HD video-capable 8 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash and autofocus, a 1.3 megapixel front-facing image taker, and a 1450mAh battery.
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It sounds, significantly, as though Wales wasn't necessarily outbid in terms of cold hard cash to bring the plant here.
With such a deep bench of people qualified for the job, finding the perfect hire is hard on you, and hard on the company in terms of time and lost productivity.
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Still, she points out that some returns are hard to quantify in normal accounting terms.
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But the broader issue is, we are committed -- the President is committed to making hard choices, tough choices in terms of spending cuts.
It was a glamorous time for some Harvard students in Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age, but for Mr Pusey it was all hard grind keeping to the tough terms of his grant.
"I have been very surprised by Marco's willingness to take political risks by working with me on things that are hard to describe in narrow ideological terms, " Mr. Coons said in an interview.
Far more common--but still damaging--are the high-volume crime spikes, spam e-mail distribution and "phishing, " a pernicious technique for stealing credit-card information. (For more on online scams, check out "Where The Scammers Are".) The carnage is hard to pin down in dollar terms, but Marcus Ranum, chief security officer of Tenable Security, says it's "billions upon billions"--far more than all "major" hacking incidents combined.
They defy fixed categories, which means that they have to be figured out the hard way on their own terms.
She had sized up the way of doing business in the South and come to terms with the cold, hard reality.
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Most of the regulatory ideas are still expressed in somewhat general terms, so it is hard to be sure if they are reasonable or over-the-top.
The industry is not as competitive as it might seem, in part because of consumer inertia, in part because many of its terms and conditions are so hard to understand.
Freshman legislators hide behind hard nosed rhetoric that if parsed through in terms of economic consequences leads to a deep recession that lasts and lasts.
The global economic slowdown, however hard it is hitting Asia, may in relative terms serve to bolster Asian influence.
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At the end of the day, thinking in terms of billions of dollars is very hard for most of us to comprehend.
Mong Koo is said to be the opposite of his worldly, cajoling uncle in terms of personal style: stiff, hard to approach, press-shy.
The worst hit in terms of immigrant flow are cities hit hard by the housing downturn like Phoenix, Arizona, Riverside-San Bernandino and San Jose, California, Las Vegas and Minneapolis-St.
In practical terms, that makes it politically very hard to get a college through without all the big party blocks in the parliament, which gives groups like the socialists a veto (even if they were thumped at the last Euro-elections).
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