But that is a hard point to sustain, given that the past few years have seen a worldwide recession and modest recovery.
But it is hard to point to him as the cause of or even a contributing factor to any of the Mets' issues.
But other than that, it's hard to point to anything that will set the world on fire in the new phone, revealed Thursday at an event in New York.
England then ran out of ideas as they tired - leaving Bob Bradley's US side to celebrate a hard-earned point.
Yet obituary writers in British newspapers, most of them kind to Mrs Castle's memory, have been hard put to point to accomplishments of hers that have endured.
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.
Good literary agents negotiate hard on this point.
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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.
"South Korea played a better game but we fought hard for our one point, " Peseiro said.
But their ambition cost them a hard-earned bonus point as they attacked from deep in their own half.
"The Polar Express" wants to be an uplifting holiday film, but it tries too hard to make its point.
Ferrer visibly grows in confidence and registers that hard-earned break point by wrong-footing Nadal with a brilliant crosscourt backhand winner.
Kettering dominated at the Deva Stadium but new-look Chester worked hard to earn a point from a draw in this Conference opener.
If you are a Tory in Scotland or a Labour supporter in much of the south, it is hard to see the point in voting.
He added a negative side of Twitter was that conversations could be seen out of context and it was hard to express a point in the 140 character limit.
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To remind you, it is very hard to find any point in the history of British government borrowing when it has been cheaper for the government to borrow, even though it is also hard to find periods when the public finances have been in worse shape.
At this point it is hard to tell if all clouds have a silver lining.
Whether or not that happens by Copenhagen at this point is just hard to say.
Some hard facts, however, point to just how difficult the job of recovery will be.
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The new iPhone 4 is, at least at this point, still hard to come by.
Spaceflight, to quote the old cliche, is hard, and at some point the Chinese programme will encounter problems.
The monetary value of this deal for everyone involved, and for the studio, would be hard to fathom at this point.
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.
When I was asked in 1988 by Science to write about economics fiscal relativity problem I was struck that the hard scientists could get this point so quickly and that so many economists could not.
Brassard, who had a goal and two assists in the Rangers' win in Game 3, made a hard pass from the right point to the left circle that Hagelin fired into the top right corner of the net.
Overall investors are still eyeing fairly strong bond auctions in most European countries but it is hard to tell at what point this expectation gets fully priced into the mix and more is required to keep the upward momentum going.
For the same reason, I think Arnott will have a hard time maintaining his percentage-point lead over the cap-weighted Russell 1000.
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