"There are no soft options and no easy ways" to make the required savings, he argued.
That is no soft option: it means 30 hours' work a week, and a further ten hours' training.
Unlike Alberta and Ontario, where similar cuts were cushioned by thriving economies, British Columbia will have no soft landing.
Luis Secco, an economist, argues that with Argentina now risking zero growth, or worse, it will be no soft touch for Brazil's exporters.
And Mr Cameron said there would be "no more excuses for failure in schools, no more soft exams and soft discipline".
Because there is no engagement, America's soft power has no traction.
The former foreign secretary said his party had not become "anti-Europe" but was no longer "soft-headed" in equating extra spending with effectiveness.
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While Gonzaga held the top spot in the AP Top 25 over the final weeks of the season, skeptics thought of the Bulldogs as a soft No. 1 seed that benefited from a relatively easy schedule in the West Coast Conference while other top contenders were getting banged around in the power conferences.
We tend to grip mice between the base of our thumb and pinky, but the Rat 9 isn't well designed for that -- we ended up pinching our skin in one of the mouse's seams where no amount of soft-touch plastic could save us from chafing on those delightfully rakish edges, something that could perhaps have been avoided with a little rubber instead.
Those who had always thought that Mr Haas is too soft will no doubt jeer.
The new legislation being prepared in Britain will convince people that the UK is no longer a "soft touch".
Now Gordon Brown has also warned this week, saying that there will be no retreat to the soft options, the narrow politics of failed policies of the past and he was aiming that at the Deputy Leadership candidates and I wonder whether he was aiming it at you.
There was no phrasing, no indication of loud or soft, on scores from his time.
Additionally, the Android soft keys are no longer virtual -- you can access them below the screen at any time, and we dig that.
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The hard corset significantly decreased lower-back or lumbar range of motion in all phases of the golf swing compared with the soft corset and no corset, the motion analysis showed.
Soft-spoken but no-nonsense, she oversaw the subsequent transition of the ringgit to a managed float in 2005 and the gradual relaxation of foreign exchange rules.
It is also encouraging that hiring intentions remain firm, and while pricing is soft, there is no indication that deflation is a serious problem.
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Billy has the kind of looks I used to go for a couple of years ago, when I was about fifteen: soulful and soft, with absolutely no hair on his chest.
As played by Anthony LaPaglia, Nixon is physically awkward and prone to third-person self-reference (more a Bob Dole tic, actually), but he is also soft-spoken and no more than ordinarily profane.
"We want to make sure that when people look at the access to our benefits and our public services that no one thinks we are a soft touch in this country, " he said, adding that ministers were "taking action to make sure that won't be the case".
So they will no longer include what is known as soft facilities management, or contracts for catering, cleaning, security and IT.
And they all shared the same attributes, said Mr. Goldstein, who offered a list: moderate alcohol, moderate to high acidity, soft tannins and little or no oak.
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Braking is soft, of course, but no worse than other hybrid vehicles on the market today.
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That sort of thing scares middle-class voters, no matter how energetically Mr Latham struggled to soft-pedal his own party's policies.
"The fact that the plane landed on a soft surface and that there was no fire helped keep the number of fatalities low, " he said.
The Feds going soft on financial crime makes absolutely no sense, if you take into account the big business of financial fraud over the past 12 years.
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