My lunch companion and I raised our glass to friendship, to France, even to hard work, and finally to the singular beauty of a crystal flute of Champagne glowing from afternoon sun that poured through the window.
Given the way they are accustomed to raising offspring, even that many is hard work.
The days of surviving or even prospering based on hard work, graft, defending well and taking advantage of set plays are gone.
In terms of his personality, he's shown that he's willing to work really hard even with all he's achieved in the game.
Nevertheless, and almost despite his father's best efforts, Frederick inherited extreme conscientiousness, a passionate devotion to duty and an even greater passion for hard work.
She decided that the convent should not accept money for Miss Bailey's work, even though it was hard up.
Fortunately, silicon-based life forms can even help us do the hard work of managing the tools with which they communicate.
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In other studies as well, creativity has begun to outshine other presumed pillars of leadership such as hard work and even integrity.
Chairman Tyson Grinstead said even though he has had to work hard to get students involved, his group still holds a vital role at UNC.
And we believe that anyone with a solid plan and a willingness to work hard can turn even the most improbable idea into a successful business.
In India, it is impossible to get Parliament enacted Insitution to be created equivalent to grameen bank and even if through decades of hard work we create one such institution, India needs around 50 of them .. we could be looking at a few centuries of labour.
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Even though all of those women work hard, have talent, and deserve our respect, the ecstatic reactions to Fey and Poehler kind of feel like that moment in the movies when the underdogs finally triumph and get their moment in the sun, surrounded by applause and confetti and tiaras and a bonanza of fireworks.
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And even then, you have to work very hard to keep the initial excitement going.
Even among the social workers who work in hard-hit communities there is surprisingly little frustration at the meagreness of the handouts on offer or at the lengthy application process.
You know, we were kids much like you who figured out one day that our fate was in our own hands, you know, and we made decisions to listen to our parents and to work hard and to work even harder when somebody doubted us.
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Even so, device makers are hard at work striking content deals to help them insert themselves--in the form of yet another set-top box--into your living room.
"At that time my personal belief was to work hard, dedicate myself or even sacrifice myself for the benefit of the people, " he was quoted as saying.
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Yet the economic overhaul needed to make dollarisation work would be hard to pull off even with a strong and credible president.
Even if the safeguards work, reforming weak states is hard.
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But running a crowdfunding drive is hard work and producing a book is even harder.
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No doubt the firms' own genetic engineers are hard at work on such a project even now.
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Admittedly, cyclical increases in unemployment may become permanent if labour-market rigidities, such as strict hiring-and-firing laws, make it hard for the jobless to find work even when the economy recovers, a condition known as hysteresis.
Megson conceded that Bolton would still have had to work hard to get something from the game even without the penalty but said the decision forced him to change tactics and go for an equaliser.
Online activists, groups like the Electronic Freedom Foundation, and any number of other academics, civil rights advocates, and even some politicians can still communicate and do the hard work necessary to stem the tide of noxious legislation and treaties.
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And I know how hard you all work, and practicing even when you don't feel like it sometimes, right, and lugging heavy instruments around when you don't feel like it, pushing yourselves to learn new pieces, or getting that last measure just right.
And I believe we can work very hard to have this job engine grow even more powerful.
And even those that do not leave may simply choose to work less hard, says Alan Johnson, a pay consultant.
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Yet, after months of hard work, the innovation train had not even left the station, much less reached its destination.
David Vikturek, who runs The Music Man heritage centre in Mason City, believes that the traditional Iowan virtues of neighbourliness, thrift and hard work will somehow help America prevail, even in a world where its economic problems are complex and deep-seated.
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"The take-away from the research (is) that if you are a parent or want to become a parent, understand what you are getting yourself into and be prepared for a lot of hard work, sweat and tears -- even under the best of conditions, " she said.
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