Nobody really wants to give up their tax breaks (home mortgage interest deduction, anyone?).
And beyond that, are racing fans really willing to give up the roar of combustion engine race cars they have known and loved for decades?
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As Robert Hazell, of University College London, points out, if Mr Brown really wanted to give up his right of dissolution, he would have advocated fixing the parliamentary term.
Was part of the goal of this meeting to placate or mollify progressives who've really had to give up a lot in terms of the public option, now the Medicare buy-in?
Ford really can't afford to give up those Mercury sales or potential customers who don't like the name FORD.
The ads to most watch out for are those pretending to offer a job but are really trying to get you to give up personal information, such as a bank-account or Social Security number.
Nevertheless, when we see that Obama's poll numbers have dropped back to the margin of victory he had in the election and have even gone underwater on his handling of health care, it really shouldn't make us give up on the prospect of reform.
It might have been some young people studying, about to go into the monastery, and I think from the text one could definitely get that sense, because so much of the text deals with the things that they are about to give up - you know, lust and drinking and all the really incredibly good things in life that they're about to give up.
Do you really think the American middle class should give up health care (Medicare) and (Social Security) income in retirement already funded with a lifetime of FICA payroll savings by millions of American employers and hundreds of millions of Americans employees to give them more tax cuts?
Given the violence that followed Yugoslavia's break-up, could any court really give a fair trial to those accused of ethnic cleansing?
What do you really want, and what are you willing to give up in return?
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"We weren't ready to give up on the dream of becoming really big, " he says.
And when they do, the most complicated object in the known universe will begin to give up the secrets of how it really works.
And while a little bit of fear can help motivate people to act, too much fear can really cause people to throw up their hands and give up.
So really, doctors, before you advise your patients to give up the taste of food for life, for what seem to be minimal or sketchy benefits, could you at least design and run some solid studies that settle the issue scientifically?
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They really have, sometimes, some very strange ideas and they don't give up on them.
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But, we push them out there and we give them the platform and... then it's really up to them.
And if we really want to lower tax rates and cut the budget deficit, we are all going to have to give up some of our most cherished benefits.
"When I came off in the fourth, it just completely locked up and I got the trainer to give me a little massage down here with some heat, and it loosened up and loosened up really good, " Pettitte said.
Many people who went to work the day before the hurricane hit were likely worrying about their next promotion, how to give some tough feedback on an upcoming performance review, or what they really wanted to be when they grew up.
"It was really emotional, the last game when all the fans were singing and the manager was trying to jump up to give me a hug in the stand, " he told BBC Sport.
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