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Even at the bottom, the trunks of the spindly, shag-topped trees are thin enough to wrap a good hug around, yet hard as concrete.
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The Environment Agency scheme includes a combination of hard defences, reinforced concrete walls with sheet metal cores and earth embankments.
BBC: Towns' flood defences in place
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Like predecessors, hard to point at concrete achievement, legacy more intangible.
BBC: Your questions to Kim Ghattas
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Clearly Bangladesh were so disappointing again - with the exception of Tamim Iqbal - that it's hard to make too many concrete judgements or bold statements, but what I have learned from this series is that Steven Finn is a bowler of great potential.
BBC: Jonathan Agnew column
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And after she has labored hard to liberate several chunks of concrete from the wall, politely ask her for a piece.
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It's really just is inspiring and it is really - it's hard to put it in like concrete words, but it - when I listen to it, I want to be a better person.
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So pitting intangible value against concrete cost increases is a hard sell, even when the net present value is positive.
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However, it insists it has negotiated hard behind the scenes with universities, in order to ensure concrete attempts to widen participation to non-traditional groups are made.
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And the President, again, as he always does, made very clear his expectation, high expectations for the Chinese that there will be concrete and visible results from the constructive partnership that the two leaders have worked hard to develop.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing
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The country's plight is hard to ignore and while the IMF may be right to insist on the need for concrete reform upfront, it is vulnerable to the charge that it at least shared responsibility for some of the mess.
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