England then ran out of ideas as they tired - leaving Bob Bradley's US side to celebrate a hard-earned point.
Both teams had a hatful of chances to grab a late winner but the defences held out and both managers had to be satisfied with a hard-earned point.
Hodgson included several youngsters in a side which earned a hard-fought point at Napoli, with the Reds boss having left Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Raul Meireles and Lucas Leiva back home ahead of the Premier League game against Blackburn at Anfield on Sunday.
But their ambition cost them a hard-earned bonus point as they attacked from deep in their own half.
Ferrer visibly grows in confidence and registers that hard-earned break point by wrong-footing Nadal with a brilliant crosscourt backhand winner.
For the same reason, I think Arnott will have a hard time maintaining his percentage-point lead over the cap-weighted Russell 1000.
We believe that at this point, the hard-won trust in the MMR vaccine and in GPs would be damaged by introducing compulsory vaccination.
We worked very hard to get to this point - over the course of seven weeks we probably only had one chance to blow off steam.
"I would be very hard-pressed to recommend that at that point in time, " Petraeus said.
And if you're hard-working enough and smart enough at that point, you'll do well.
Kettering dominated at the Deva Stadium but new-look Chester worked hard to earn a point from a draw in this Conference opener.
Democrats in Florida point out he struck a more hard-line note on the immigration front while a lawmaker there.
Turkey and Brazil resuscitated the deal in the spring of 2010, but by then Iran's stockpile had grown and Mr Obama was on the point of guiding a new, hard-won sanctions resolution through the Security Council.
Others point to the alienation caused by the hard-line policing methods espoused by Mr Sarkozy.
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Instead, they point out that their co-religionists work hard for whatever prominence they now enjoy as the biggest body of churchgoing Christians.
Unless the laws of supply and demand have been repealed, it is hard to believe that there is no point at which ever-lower unemployment rates produce wage pressure.
Griffin won a hard-fought jump ball, but Paul missed a desperation 3-point attempt as the shot clock went off.
"We have worked very hard over past two years to get to this point, " Al-Thani continued.
The news boosted the hard-pressed yen, the currency climbing faster than it had at any point in the past two weeks.
While it's already being used in art galleries and inside cameras (as sensor covers), Nippon Electric Glass is pushing hard to get its invisible glass featured on mobile devices -- the selling point here is simply to achieve the effect of somewhere in between glossy glass and matte glass, so that you'd get the best color vibrancy with minimal reflection.
ENGADGET: Nippon Electric Glass demos liquid crystal lens and 'invisible glass' at CEATEC (video)
It's hard to call anything a 'bet the company' thing at this point--that is, if it doesn't succeed, the whole fate of the company is tied up in it.
But New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was one of the first to point out that the NFL would have a hard time acting evaluating helmet-to-helmet hits.
Fortunately, I have created a system that will allow these logical, rational, linear thinkers to turn any message point into a sound bite that is irresistible to even the most hard-bitten journalist.
The Hawks' Kyle Korver saw Anthony shoot 8-for-10 from the three-point line without dribbling at all, only to see Anthony drive hard to his left past Josh Smith for a game-winning layup.
At this point, significantly bolder proposals for spending reductions are hard to come by--from either party--for the simple reason that the vast majority of expenditures involve politically sensitive matters like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and defense.
It's hard to say just how realistic that dream is at this point, of course -- the device is set to go up for order in the fall, and Pettis is the first to admit that the company still has a long way to go before the Digitizer is consumer-ready.
For hard-core hobbyists, that's not a problem, and may even be a point of pride: It takes a practiced eye to distinguish between a eucrite and a diogenite.
And Sussex nerves were starting to fray when Rory Hamilton-Brown drove the first ball after tea to point and Luke Wright was taken low down at slip driving hard outside off-stump at Plunkett.
As Android goes, all eyes might be on the Magic at this point -- but T-Mobile USA's still rocking the G1 hard, and they've got the stats to prove it.
ENGADGET: T-Mobile reveals some juicy G1 stats, half of users traded up from dumbphones
PCs are turning into crowded repositories of family photographs, songs and e-mails alongside word documents and spreadsheets, and point to locations on their own hard disks as well as to computers far away.
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