One of the reasons it's so hard to assess the level of vegetarianism is because of the multiple definitions of the term.
Applicants had to be proven seamen, hard-working and level-headed, with a spotless criminal record (Houston uses private investigators to check up on that).
Mr Harrison said the hospital had managed to maintain standards of care but "staff have to work very hard to deliver that level of performance".
Argentina's inflexible currency-board scheme not only pegs the peso at par to the dollar but limits the money supply to the level of hard-currency reserves, in effect turning monetary policy over to the United States' Federal Reserve.
But it makes it pretty hard to have a level playing field when two very different sets of criteria are used to judge men and women when it comes to humor, even if those criteria are largely subconscious.
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And while it can be, on one level, hard to fault someone who does have the money from spending it on a party if they so choose, these high profile events have an impact on all of us.
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It is hard to quantify the level of embarrassment I felt for Facebook as well as the entire market to see what took place in the last 10 minutes of trading as underwriters struggled to keep the stock from ending its first day of trading with a loss.
Yet entry level positions are hard to find as the baby boomers hang around longer.
"It's hard to know whether the level of class actions has gone up or down, because you're seeing different kinds of class actions filed now, " he says.
It's hard to execute at a level that I'm sure we're going to see down the road, but really for the first day, he did pretty good.
"There has to be an understanding that when we have players at international level it is hard for them to come back immediately and kick-stark, " he said.
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Moreover, Western private sector demands will create additional pressures on the system when they require, for example, a clear determination whether the individual republics, like Russia, will be willing to accept responsibility for a crushing level of Soviet hard currency indebtedness, indebtedness that they had no direct involvement in creating and from which they derived little, if any, benefit.
On a global level, this begins with pushing hard in the Doha Round to improve those negotiations so that they have a higher level of ambition in the way that will translate directly into more opportunities for American exporters.
On the international level, costs are hard to estimate because no decision has been reached on how many inspections there will be.
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But at club level he found it hard to break into the City first team and was loaned to Bolton in January, making 13 top-flight appearances.
Opening the doors to more hard core business and strategic upper level management positions will clearly unleash the talent of many Latinas today and in the future.
I've worked hard to cultivate a more sophisticated level of discourse on Facebook, which is something established reporters like Nicholas Kristof have been able to achieve with great success.
It may look like we are close now, but it is very hard to win games at this level and we will take nothing for granted now with two home games coming next.
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But we know from our history -- the history of this great country -- that change is hard, and it requires a level of patience and tenacity -- do you hear me, young people?
As a civil rights attorney, an aide to Senator Ted Kennedy, a member of the Montgomery, Maryland County Council, Tom fought for a level playing field where hard work and responsibility are rewarded and working families can get ahead.
We're not going to front like we understand exactly how it works, but two IBM researchers in California have announced that they've gotten closer to controlling the orientation and magnetic spin of individual iron atoms on a copper surface, which would have huge implications for nanotech storage -- imagine the basic tech in your hard drive shrunk down the molecular level.
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While the emotional connection was there, the hard work was handled on a tactical level.
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As my adrenaline level fell, it was hard for me to steady my legs.
Once the investigation had started at this level, it was very hard to stop.
On a practical level, it will be hard to decide what contribution out-of-school activities make to the diploma.
We could see drones accompanying early morning joggers, taking sport, wildlife, and other photography to a new level, or mapping out hard-to-reach geographic terrain.
"The rapid growth of the global NAS market has led to hard drives optimized specifically for entry-level NAS use, " said Richard Lee, CEO of QNAP Systems, Inc.
And while this level of performance would be hard to duplicate on any stage, can you imagine this same type of focus and determination on display in your office?
So General Petraeus felt comfortable enough to take him to, you know, one of those marketplaces probably in a neighborhood where we've been working pretty hard and we've brought the level of violence down.
Still, at the end of the day, the hard work rests at the state and local level.
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