• The hard seats of ying zuo were no longer hard, upholstered now with blue covers.

    BBC: Changing China seen from the 'hard seats' of a train

  • It is in the big hard Labour seats that UKIP has done well in the last 18 months.

    BBC: Nigel Farage with UKIP's candidate Diane James

  • Tubby and unlovely, with hard wooden seats, the ferry boats have plied these waters since the late 19th century.

    BBC: Hong Kong: Where worlds collide

  • Adding inactivity to injury, this is especially true in locations where many people exercise accompanied to music, airplanes (hey, it's hard to return those seats to their upright positions), the New York City subway system, and the streets of cities other than Mountain View, CA. Indeed, most WiFi-friendly environments are also laptop-friendly and thus support access to not only Yahoo Music and its competitors, but high-quality free internet radio from last.fm, Slacker, and others.

    ENGADGET: Switched On: Music in the air (Part 2)

  • And weren't the stall seats at the Vic once hard by the stables?

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Most observers agree that the new appointees owe their seats to professional competence and hard work, not political connections.

    ECONOMIST: Bolivia

  • And since both the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru have agricultural seats, they may find it hard not to support the Tories.

    ECONOMIST: Wales

  • And that speaker has to create the speech, rehearse it, and travel for days to hard-to-reach places in uncomfortable airplane seats to get to the venue, where she has to try to please a roomful of strangers so that the whole process can begin again.

    FORBES: Are You Worth $40K an Hour?

  • That is presumably because the wretches knew their own seats were safe, but it makes it hard to prove the map was partisan.

    ECONOMIST: Campaign finance and redistricting

  • Older politicians in rural seats still practise trusted methods, securing a hard vote with hard cash channelled through a network of personal connections.

    ECONOMIST: Japan

  • At the moment, the two control only 201 of parliament's 550 seats, and opinion polls suggest it may be hard for them to hold on even to that many.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey

  • For example if every vote was worth hard cash would parties be so ready to stand aside from certain seats on a tactical basis?

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • Whether there are 59 seats in the Senate or 60, we still have to work hard to get our economy back on track.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • All of these data stream into the back of the van, where the rear bench seats have been replaced with a server tower that contains two 500-gigabyte hard drives.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Controlling as he does only 10% of parliament's seats, and having lost the loyalty of the security services, it is hard to see how Mr Wahid imagines he can survive.

    ECONOMIST: President Abdurrahman Wahid raises the stakes

  • Earlier this season, Rajon Rondo and Humphries were ejected for scuffling under a basket and into the first row of seats after the Nets' big man knocked Garnett to the floor with a hard foul.

    WSJ: Williams carries Nets to 101-93 win over Celtics

  • California's Republicans fought hard for cuts in the state budget this summer, at one point camping overnight in their seats.

    ECONOMIST: California

  • Quite how that would translate into seats in Parliament, and what kind of coalition government would eventually emerge, is hard to say.

    BBC: Local elections: Can they predict general elections?

  • Meetings between Algroup managers and Viag's union representatives, who were to have several seats on the board, went badly, convincing the Swiss they would have a hard time cutting costs.

    ECONOMIST: Cross-border mergers

  • The hard-right Jewish Home, led by the charismatic Naftali Bennett, won between 11 and 12 seats.

    CNN: Barak: Israeli coalition difficult to predict

  • Hard and hollow plastics are giving way to softer feeling and more elegant-looking surfaces, car seats are becoming increasingly supportive and comfortable and dashboards are being reconfigured in novel ways to accommodate an array of connectivity and infotainment features.

    FORBES: The Best New-Car Interiors For 2013

  • It also proves that all the hard work put in by Mr Gandhi - and nobody denies that - does not translate into votes and seats if the local party organisation is weak and leadership is virtually non-existent, as happened in Uttar Pradesh.

    BBC: A setback for Rahul Gandhi and the Grand Old Party

  • "It's hard to imagine the rationale for nominating three judges at once for this court given the many vacant emergency seats across the country, unless your goal is to pack the court to advance a certain policy agenda, " Grassley said in a statement Monday night.

    NPR: AP Source: Obama Nominating 3 To US Appeals Court

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