However, listen hard and you'll hear that they are not ruling out ending the link between benefit rises and inflation or other cuts in the benefit bill.
But it was hard to listen to Mr Clinton's answer without feeling some sympathy.
The truth is that some felons are hard to listen to while others have a story that resonates with audiences.
It's hard to listen to The Silver City, the new CD from Minnesota chamber-pop artist Jeremy Messersmith, without thinking of Sufjan Stevens.
The film is luminous to look at and hard to listen to, as great chunks of whole-meal fiction are read out in voice-over.
But, in the setting, it was hard to listen to Verdi, the composer of Italy's Risorgimento, without thinking of English and Scottish politics.
Listen, when you work hard (and play hard) the way we do, your hands are going to get dirty from time to time.
So I would have some advice to all of you there, which is study really hard in school, listen to your teachers.
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He will work players hard and expect them to listen, learn and perform.
The CD is called "Dreams Come True, " and when you listen to it, it's hard to understand why Judee Sill's never did.
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You know, we were kids much like you who figured out one day that our fate was in our own hands, you know, and we made decisions to listen to our parents and to work hard and to work even harder when somebody doubted us.
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When I first got Mindy it was pretty hard because she didn't listen to me, but now she does and she knows a lot of commands.
In developing countries such as India, women are generally seen as better employees, compared to men who are considered hard to train, unwilling to listen and likely to quit.
But he knows that because he lost the race, it's hard to tell the GOP to listen now to what he has to say about how to improve the party's message.
Now, listen, you know I'm working hard because my voice is getting a little raspy. (Applause.) So, folks in the back, if you can't hear me, you let me know.
He said making peace would be a "hard slog" but he wanted to listen to both sides rather than come with any big announcement.
He went on to find similar flaws in many lotteries in Canada and U.S., and to have a hard time getting people who designed lotteries to listen to his warnings, as they tended to assume he was a crackpot.
The bad news is that the main beneficiary of public disillusionment is Alexis Tsipras, leader of the intransigent hard-left Syriza, who claims to "listen to the people" while rejecting the kind of unity government that more than 70% of Greeks said they wanted.
However, I am consistently astounded by how hard it is for salespeople to simply shut up and listen.
Yet to listen to the managers' presentation last week, one would be hard put to include -- to conclude that they understood that.
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To listen to this young entrepreneur as she tells her story of persistence and hard work, one begins to realize that she understood how to put her own needs last.
Maybe we're talking about the same thing and it's just a question of semantics, because I think we both talk about the ability to listen to the "other", whoever it may be and however hard it is to hear him or her.
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When you have a problem with your credit card issuer, it is hard to find someone who can help, or sometimes, even listen.
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His head's right, he trains hard, he's a nice lad to work with, he listen and he learns.
It's really just is inspiring and it is really - it's hard to put it in like concrete words, but it - when I listen to it, I want to be a better person.
He rejected calls from opposition parties to delay the elections in hard-hit areas such as Cumbria and Devon, though he said he would listen to concerns.
Part of the reason it's so hard to get this done is because both sides of the debate sometimes don't listen to each other.
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