Stelios has a hard edge, his own executives privately citing his sharp-tongued "interpersonal skills" as a weakness.
Away from the hard edge of rock, Eno descended, musically speaking, into the mists of electronic mood sounds.
The Reagan of the 1960s and 1970s and during the 1976 and 1980 Republican primaries had a hard edge.
Type fonts rendered as pixels do not have a hard edge to them.
Ostensibly, that is why Mr Wuffli was replaced by Marcel Rohner, the new boss, though it is not clear whether the 42-year-old former private banker and risk manager has the hard edge to cut it in investment banking.
As well as being a man of vision and tactical subtlety, James had a hard edge that translated to the teams he sent onto the field - 'get your retaliation in first' is his most famous rallying cry.
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Freeman and Longueuil also displayed a hard competitive edge, people who know them say.
One particularly hard grounder caught the edge of the bag, and kicked up with a vicious hop.
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The recent hot spell had left the course fast-running and bone-hard before the rain took the edge off for the first round.
Whatever happens about the title it takes the edge off eight weeks of hard work.
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But Android vendors are going to press hard the argument that they represent the cutting edge of both mobile data download speed and processor performance.
Her skates are chunks of steel as long as 13 feet (the crew changes skate length according to ice conditions), with an almost imperceptible curve along the bottom and a razor-sharp edge so that the skate bites hard into the ice.
With Refine Edge technology from Adobe Photoshop, even hard-to-select areas with soft edges are easily captured when making selections.
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Along the right edge, there's still a hard camera button -- and all the buttons seem to have more give than last year's Nokia devices.
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If this is how Walter pictures it, it's hard to understand how it could drive him over the edge (though it might explain why it takes him three days to finish it).
On "Desire, " Harvey steps away from this emotional and cosmetological brink without losing her edge, viewing her old torment with curiosity and hard-won wisdom.
New York City Opera, meanwhile, has teetered on the edge of extinction, its board and management accused of hard-heartedness and ineptitude.
The rub is being felt particularly hard in Greenwich, a redoubt of Wall Street wealth on the edge of New York City's suburbs, where trees are intertwined with the town's old money legacy.
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They are hoping this season's version has a happier ending, although City will have to develop a greater cutting edge in front of goal and overcome a capacity for making life hard for themselves to achieve that.
For his twelfth birthday, Sandy had gotten a large, flat black portfolio made of hard cardboard that folded along a sewn seam and was secured at the top edge with two attached lengths of ribbon that he tied in a bow in order to fasten the leaves.
In other cases, such as Kosovo and Bosnia, it is hard to see how the United States' foreign policy could avoid having a humanitarian edge.
His death hits Makani hard because its founder is irreplaceable: a Stanford-trained engineer who pushed the edge of design, an able leader who snared funding from Google and the ARPA-E, and a handsome windsurfing champion who knew the power of the wind firsthand.
"Staying on top of soft skills such as critical thinking and time management while maintaining expertise in hard skills such as widely-used software programs provides candidates and employees with a necessary edge, " says Christian Idiodi, director of CBInstitute.com, a division of CareerBuilder.com that offers online courses and certifications.
Leading-edge boomers are also nearing retirement, which means their substantial portfolio losses will be hard to make up.
But when really hard economic times hit, when sustained high unemployment sends the number of Americans living on the edge of poverty sharply higher, those mainstream retailers lose market share to ultra-discounters like Family Dollar, Dollar General ( DG) and Dollar Tree ( DLTR).
At the same time, Todenhofer was starting to wonder if there wasn't a downside to plucking a frightened and anxious girl from a shanty town on the edge of Baghdad and exposing her to life in the West in short bursts that were hard for her to make sense of.
In the hard-core rap community hip-hop artists who move into movies are routinely berated for losing their edge.
Last week, hostility against the liquor stores on the edge of the reservation (booze is banned within it) erupted after the bodies of Ronald Hard Heart and Wilson Black Elk were found decomposing in a ditch near the stores.
Instead Obama got 1.3% economic growth rates, the economy teetering on the edge of a double dip, an unemployment rate over 9%, and shrill claims from the hard left that mere near trillion dollar deficits simply are not enough.
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