He also knows wolves, so he says -- though it's hard to believe anyone on this movie could claim as much.
We're not going to let the fact that this prototype user also seems to be reading Dan Brown's Angels and Demons further shake our confidence -- though it's hard to get below zero.
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For a city dweller it sounds almost idyllic, though Rawles -- a gently spoken and affable man -- insists it's a lot of hard work.
After about half an hour's hard climb - though it's the donkeys that have done all the work - we reach the Deir, a truly magnificent facade carved massively into a coffee-coloured cliff face.
Though state counting-houses may be full now, it is not hard to imagine how they might be drained.
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Awkward though this is, e-mail's rigid protocols make it hard to innovate in the in-box.
Studies show a correlation between more women in senior positions and superior company performance, though it is hard to know whether more sexual diversity improves performance or top-notch firms promote more women.
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The federal government, which pays for roughly half the Medicaid expenses, is supposed to get a similar proportion of the payout, though there is no rock-hard assurance that the states will hand it over.
Also considered a hard grating cheese, though less expensive, it competes with Parmigiano-Reggiano (though mainly on a price basis).
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For outsiders though, it is hard not to wonder whether an icy swim simply replaces a Guinness-induced headache with a different kind of pain.
The presidency could last longer, perhaps for a year--though it would then take 15 years to come round, making it hard for countries to gain experience.
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Sometimes, though, it comes down to the sort of game where hard grunt is the key - half the season is played in rain and heavy mud and Bath maybe just lack a little bit of dog.
It was a tight affair though and Federer had to work hard for his 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 victory.
Though many iPod owners use the device as a portable hard drive--which it is--the iPod was built for music.
Though there is no hard rule that committee chairmen allow minority-view witnesses to testify, it does happen.
This means that though many weight-loss interventions suggest walking as the primary form of physical activity, it is probably too hard for many people.
His great skill wasn't his strength - though he never took a backwards step and could punch as hard as anyone of his weight - it was his stamina.
It's hard to pick which one that'd be: Symbian, though terribly out-of-date, is still wildly popular in Europe and emerging markets, while MeeGo is technically promising but has yet to make any impact in the market whatsoever.
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Ostensibly, that is why Mr Wuffli was replaced by Marcel Rohner, the new boss, though it is not clear whether the 42-year-old former private banker and risk manager has the hard edge to cut it in investment banking.
Hard drive-based players can still skip, though they're designed to resist it--and in our experience are usually quite successful in that endeavor.
Technological progress, and (it should follow) increasing global integration, are in some ways natural and self-fuelling processes, depending chiefly on human ingenuity and ambition: it would be hard (though, as history shows, not impossible) to call a halt to innovation.
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