When he first moved into management he proved to be an equally hard task-master.
But now they're all working hard, and they realise it's a hard task ahead of them.
But as with the other characteristics of this expansion, policymakers have a hard task deciding when that limit is.
We pick ourselves up and we get on with the hard task of keeping our country strong and safe.
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Finding a state willing to prosecute the pirates is a hard task, forcing EU-NAVFOR to send them back to Somalia.
Blackburn were unbeaten in nine games prior to the game but found breaking through the Villa ranks a hard task.
Each of these is a hard task, but worthy of action by government and meets our energy needs for this century.
Even then British beef farmers will have a hard task to recover lost markets and to overcome continental wariness of their meat.
That hard task will be made even harder by Asia's weakening economy.
And, if he still has the relentless desire for success he had as a player, the 50-year-old Glaswegian will prove a hard task-master.
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However, it acknowledges that it will have a hard task convincing those who currently get all the movies, TV shows and music they want without paying.
Borrowing that much would be a hard task for the deficit-stricken Spanish government (which has yet again raised its estimate for last year's deficit, to 8.9% of GDP).
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And I think we can give them the benefit of the doubt and say that this is a hard task and it has been a hard task for many, many years now.
"Judges have a hard task in front of them to read and assess all these exceptional books by our specific awards criteria but their dedication and enthusiasm is second to none and we are all looking forward to the challenge, " she added.
The frontal cortex even expands in size in this initial phase, as we focus hard on the task.
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The task is hard, but with the reservoir of goodwill that Saab can still tap, it is not impossible.
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Set aside about 45 minutes to defrag your hard disk, a task you should perform at least once a month.
Combine that with Ohio's demographics and Mr Kerry's task seems hard.
Tipsy employees, they say, find it hard to focus on a task, but this makes them more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
That doesn't sound like a herculean task to Americans who make hard choices every day.
Just finding out which is the right one for the task in hand can be hard enough.
Mr Sarkozy wants to tell French voters ahead of this spring's presidential election that only he is up to the task of protecting them in hard times.
The chip acts as if it were hard-wired to do just one task extremely well, but it can also be rewired on the fly to do some other task just as fast.
It's hard to believe he can competently perform this task if his only experience in a similar situation ended in failure.
While no hard data exist, Yawn says the Preventive Task Force has been asked to review significantly more screenings in the past four years.
The former military man assigned to the task stared at me long and hard, surrounded by my papers on my knees on a hotel carpet.
Their task seemed to have been made less hard when the Islamist government in Turkey, which had made rude noises about many things European, was replaced by a more amenable one.
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But watching and waiting in the sun is no easy task, and snacks and water breaks are hard to come by.
It isn't an easy task: "If you make it too hard, nobody is going to show up, " he said.
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