Preparing these people for any sort of steady employment will be a long, hard and expensive process.
Brazil has discovered a spectacular oil field off its coast, but it will be hard and expensive to exploit.
But the world of BI too has longstanding complaints: it is too hard and expensive to manage and support all the infrastructure needed.
This is a hard and expensive battle.
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To repeat the important mantra, when it is hard and expensive for banks to raise finance, the flow of vital credit to the economy can be interrupted and the price of credit can rise - and a weak economic recovery, of the sort we are experiencing, can be snuffed out.
You know how hard it is for your parents if they have to get on a bus to go get a head of lettuce and they just came home from work and they have to get in a cab to go to a grocery store -- that's hard and expensive for them, right?
Employees in many of the affected companies moved fixturing and other hard to replace and expensive items to higher floors when possible but heavy equipment could not be moved to higher ground.
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Psychotherapy is great, but depending where you live and the state of your finances, it can be hard to find and expensive.
Scratch off those hard to find and expensive items like Wii gaming consoles and big flat-panel screens.
For readers, a print copy of issue one can be hard to find and expensive to buy.
It might have brought the entire system down and the parts would have been much more expensive and hard to replace.
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Magnetic tapes can degrade within a decade, while hard disks are expensive and need a constant supply of electricity.
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Among today's data-storage devices, magnetic tapes can degrade within a decade, while hard disks are expensive and need a constant supply of electricity to hold their information, creating huge need for power for the "data farms" behind cloud computing.
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End-users will sometimes make mistakes and choose technology that may be expensive or hard to monitor and manage.
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Scott Brown last fall in one of the most expensive and hard-fought Senate contests of 2012.
But nursery places are expensive and hard to find, so children pitch up in reception lagging their peers.
Among alternative energies, solar energy is a child starlet: alluringly clean, endlessly promising--yet petulantly expensive and hard to manage.
Water--or in this case, information--travels through expensive and hard-to-maintain pipes across a city or town until it reaches a particular building.
The firm invests in companies that are well run but cannot access capital, since financing is expensive and hard to come by in Brazil.
Was it a watershed moment for women in politics, the fruit of expensive and hard-charging campaigns or an expression of voter distrust of established politicians?
In May and June Turkey was hit particularly hard because of its high current-account deficit and expensive currency.
While a 1-gigabyte hard drive was fairly expensive in 1995, PC hard drives of 20 GB and up are now fairly typical, reducing the need for the extra PC storage space.
The sort of global vigilance that could detect a rare cancer becoming slightly less rare is hard to imagine, and would certainly be expensive.
Even if a Polish research team does make a discovery, it is expensive to patent internationally and hard, usually, to bring to the market.
Your anti-corruption compliance program has access to excellent (and expensive) technology at no incremental hard cost.
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Today's answer to the hard middle is direct mail, which is expensive and inefficient.
Talent remains hard to find, and keeping stars is competitive and expensive.
The chassis feels hammer-hard and stout, paying dividends in the kind of cabin ambience you might expect in a larger and more expensive car.
Far from doing all the hard work, he was helped by a huge and highly expensive team of investment-banking advisers.
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