Yet for Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, these difficulties are no reason to pull the troops out of Afghanistan.
But after all the nerves, when it's time to crack on with the interview, the boys pull no punches.
In an e-mailed statement, a Microsoft spokesman said the company has no plans to pull Bing or any other Microsoft service from the Chinese market.
It may grumble about the dollar's dominance in the global trading system, but it has no desire to pull the rug from under America's economy.
That may be a by-product of his straight-talking nature and his supreme confidence, which mean he sees no need to pull punches or partake in false modesty.
But the company reiterated Wednesday it has no plans to pull the plug on Santa Claus or polar bears, which are popular with children and have been fixtures in Coke ads since the 1920s.
Unfortunately, news on the video store front isn't so compelling: Microsoft is only adding TV shows at this point, no movies, and there's no way to pull video you've bought on your 360 over to your Zune.
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The coalition and IGC have called for Iraqis to choose a transitional government through caucuses, saying there is no time to pull together an electoral infrastructure before the scheduled handover of power to a new Iraqi government by June 30.
To be sure, there are plenty of stories from the liberal-left that pull no punches: John Judis in a recent issue of the New Republic presents a reasoned dissection of the administration's failure to engage in the theatricality of populism, which FDR so ably did in similarly dire circumstances.
There is no clear impetus to pull the world out of the economic malaise it has been experiencing since 2008.
If you are a real estate agent working with upper-end price range clients, there is no reason not to pull out all the stops.
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But no matter what they pull out of the river, and how often they catch something worth talking about, they all echo some version of the fisherman's lament.
In short: you no longer have a pull-out settings menu, but the basic settings -- brightness, geotagging, white balance, flash, and digital zoom -- are along the right-hand side of the viewfinder.
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Without that backing, Mr Shelbrooke says he had no alternative but to pull the plug on his bill but believes there is so much support for it from "the man in the street" that he will relaunch his campaign in the spring.
Komen is sticking to the story that they had no choice but to pull the funding once Republican Congressman Cliff Sterns, a long-time opponent of Planned Parenthood, began a Congressional investigation to determine if Planned Parenthood has violated the rules that prohibit them from spending taxpayer money on abortion services.
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Historically, No. 10 and No. 12 seeds that pull first-round upsets also win in the second round nearly half the time.
Which means he'll pull off his No. 52 uniform for the last time after the Ravens are eliminated or win the Super Bowl.
But there are much bigger planets or even galaxies that are exerting big data gravitational pull on marketers no matter how prepared they are.
And you needn't stop there: Both No. 10 and No. 12 seeds that pull first round upsets have a 50% chance of winning in round two.
The average shoppping trip to DG takes 10 minutes, says Montagna, so there is virtually no additional gas used to pull in and out on the way home.
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Before his father and predecessor, the late John Chafee, was first elected to the Senate in 1976, no Republican had managed to pull off that feat since some fellow named Jesse Metcalf in 1930.
It's no secret that phone makers pull out all of their snazzy design ideas for high-end flagship products, but we've been pleasantly surprised to see that many manufacturers aren't simply maintaining the status quo when it comes to budget devices either.
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Admittedly, this is easier to pull off when no one else is aboard, but relocating some storage area to sidewalls (not in overhead spaces) adds a lot of cabin room and makes it less likely passengers will bash their heads on compartments above in that frantic post-landing-must-touch-my-carryon-immediately moment of choreographed (and mystifying) panic.
Obviously in today's business environment, there's no way for an enterprise to pull back on its mobile strategy.
He ended up doing a deal with online shopping site Kaboodle and had to pull it off with no engineers.
Harrington, who was beaten in a play-off by Jimenez last year, gave no reason for his decision to pull out.
On the other hand, it is by no means certain that Royal would pull out in the event of an adjournment.
His mission: to create the world's first zero-emission, hydrogen-based economy--and to pull it off through no-nonsense business principles, not tree-hugging wishful thinking.
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