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For the developer, this is often more a general state of mind rather than a set of hard and fast rules.

Place your hands, one on top of the other on the center of the chest. Push hard and fast aim for a rate of about 100 presses in a minute.

Trying to impose hard and fast limits on reserve accumulation would be both futile and undesirable.

While a good build, patience and a good attitude are what he prefers in employees, he has no hard-and fast-hiring criteria.

Faced with this untidy set of choices, a sensible philosophy would not make hard-and-fast judgments about what businesses belong together.

He was a bit rough, a biter, liked it hard and fast, and he wasn't changing his style to accommodate me.

However, no hard and fast rules can be laid down and each case must be judged on its merits.

There is no hard and fast rule on how a life handbook should be; it is up to your preference.

There are no hard and fast rules for identifying use cases from process models, and hence this step has no formalized standard.

Then, as he leaned against the line and slapped his left hand hard and fast against his thigh he saw the line slanting slowly upward.

New school: If you want to finish strong and improve your times in the marathon, you have to run hard and fast at the end of your long runs.

The firm has no hard and fast rules to limit the scope of our work.

Note: There are no hard and fast rules about which category each compound word goes into but a good dictionary will tell you.

One day, he spun so hard and fast that he flew away. The top landed on the roof. The roof was full of all sorts of things.

Excessive decoupling between problem domains should not be a hard and fast mandate for SOA development.

Before such a hard and fast rules, wind power prediction of wind power plant is dispensable.

I believe in living passionately, leaving nothing inside, bringing it hard and fast like a steam train, and touching souls.

The issues I raise below are not hard-and-fast rules, but a series of points to consider in the design of your site.

It is not possible to lay down any hard and fast rule about the output or input of any given date.

Enter the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, which has become the first authority to pass hard-and-fast rules for liquidity since the crisis.

Fans in the United States enjoy sports which are hard and fast, and soccer is a fast sport which demands strong, hard play.

Environmental protection can be easily shelved when it is in conflict with financial interests because there are no hard and fast rules.

He started to swing, pumping his legs and arms as hard and fast as he could.

There are no hard and fast cut-offs in terms of academic experience, we evaluate each candidate's unique skills and achievements.

I'll wake up with my heart beating very hard and fast, and I'll be WIDE AWAKE.

He wanted to show that he added value to his trading system beyond the hard and fast rules.

In the end, you just have to accept that life is fuzzy: there is no hard and fast definition of a netbook.

Improving the performance of your Domino servers is an art. There are no hard and fast rules.

Yet Mr Geithner stopped short of endorsing hard and fast numerical targets that would set caps on external imbalances.

Given the difficulty of judging brand names isolated from performance, are there any hard-and-fast rules for naming a service company?

It should be pointed out that these designations are not hard and fast geographical boundaries.

The teacher said that there was a hard - and - fast rule against smoking in school.

Obviously, use judgement rather than hard-and-fast rules for what looks neatest, but value clarity in appearance.

It's not a hard and fast rule but I find pixel drawings look best when they have black outlines.

One hard and fast rule in the Middle East is never rule out Israel's readiness to turn the table over.

Populations were hit hard and fast, presumably to satisfy specific purchase orders from buyers.

But the rule is not hard and fast. Seafood can taste fine with some reds, whereas some whites can ruin the meal.

Changes in the market fast, hard and fast course will eventually be continually replaced by newer programs.

Political attitudes, once hard and fast, are undergoing a transformation.

it is going to happen as hard and fast as possible but not without an imposing discipline.

Honestly, hard and fast guidelines are very difficult to establish.

There is no hard and fast rule here, and every application will differ somewhat.

There are no hard and fast rules about this.

There is no hard and fast model for how a golf facility must look, and how a course must play.

They use adaptable maxims to guide their decisions, rather than hard and fast rules.

to make hard and fast calls about whether Iraqi progress was satisfactory.

We stuck hard and fast on the rocks in the middle of the river, and lay there four days.

There's a few of hard and fast rules when it comes to not losing your bike this way.

But that is not a hard-and-fast rule, Reynolds said, and an ownership stake below 10 percent is not automatically shielded from review.

F. Have client blow out as hard and fast as possible through the mouth only.

Admittedly, this kind of program is more difficult toadminister than one with hard-and-fast rules to follow.

Prior to Navis SPARCS and Navis PrimeRoute, one straddle per truck was a hard and fast rule.

There is no hard-and-fast rule for the ratio because it depends on the queries involved.

This isn't the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is the time to make mistakes: Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere.

I just like changing, life needing to change all the time. I hate it is hard and fast.

That country now has a hard and fast rule against a teacher taking money to raise a student's grade.

There are no hard and fast rules. And it may have little to do with the real you. It happens.

Those are the house rules. It's hard-and-fast rule.

They want a hard and fast black and white answers.

Fashion changes continually; there are no hard and fast rules.

Is there a hard-and-fast line between good and evil?

When it comes to love, there are no hard and fast rules though many people follow the age-old theory that opposites attract.

There are really no hard and fast rules as to where you conduct your breast self-examination.

These are not hard and fast rules, they are more guidelines, on how to make your Theme the best it can be before exposing it to the public.

At that, the pack grew excited, throwing questions hard and fast.

As we said, there are no hard and fast rules for design, only guidelines for the code under the hood.

There are no hard and fast rules about the age a child can start self-care safely.

There are no hard and fast rules for planning healthy meals.

There are no hard and fast rules on how to celebrate the day but it is great if you feel like participating any way you can.

You can't lay down hard and fast rules.

'These are not just recommendations, they're hard and fast rules to live by. '

There are really no hard and fast guidelines for how to use these environments.

In our workshop there is a hard and fast rule against smoking.

These are not hard and fast rules that you must use.

The only hard and fast piece of the formula is the role--and driving personality--of the leader. Let's look more closely at each

there is no hard - and - fast rule for determining the types of public works projects to be delivered by way of the ppp approach

hard and fast Defined, fixed, and invariable:

And goals were coming hard and fast,