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Such differences are bigger at higher grades, with the hardest move of all being for a woman to settle into a professorial chair.

UBS was one of the hardest hit banks during the global financial crisis.

He said the investigation continues into the reasons schools appear to have bee hardest hit.

So far, Europe and emerging markets seem to have copped it the hardest.

Now that she's settled into her dorm room in Witte Hall, she said the hardest things to get used to are the language and culture.

My memory might be playing tricks on me but I seem to remember reading once that Hungarian is the hardest European language to learn.

Its sad, so sadly cant we talk it over? Oh it seems to me That sorry seems to be the hardest word.

I tried my hardest to follow along, but everything was way harder than I thought it would be.

This, according to all voices heard in my less-than-scientific survey, is one of the hardest parts of any long-term relationship.

It was the hardest fight of Kraus's life. People at the gym cheered him on. Garud kept saying he could do more.

After all , the hardest part of database application programming is often managing relationships .

Japan was one of the hardest-hit countries during the global financial crisis.

But the hardest thing was to break the news to the families of men in my outfit that got killed.

You know, that was the hardest part about having to portray you, grinning like an idiot every fifteen minutes.

Sure, he may have done nothing but in this case, it might just be the hardest thing to do.

And America would have to take the hardest hit of all if it had continued with runaway spending.

And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

Leaving children behind is one of the hardest parts of migrant life, whether the home village is in southern Africa or east Asia.

She confesses to being scared; her mother insists that being a single mother is the hardest possible job a woman can have.

The hardest part about growing up is letting go of what you were used to, and moving on with something you're not.

Then, he said, the hardest work was done by the low-level labourers.

At this point, all the hardest work of a paper is behind a writer. The research. The writing. The thorough and formal citation.

A number of newspaper editors say the component of A. P. service that would be hardest to replace is still photography.

asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labour.

The hardest moments are when I feel as if I'm losing control.

Still, economic downturns seem to be hitting children in poor countries the hardest, and researchers say the impact can last a lifetime.

Two friends can be better than a host. In the end, Ron and Hermione were enough to sustain Harry through the hardest parts of his journey.

Unlike seasonal flu, which tends to be worst among the elderly, swine flu hits kids hardest.

The hardest choices so often come upon us out of the blue, as the result of no actions of our own.

Managing people is often the hardest part of running a business.

Contrary to what you might expect, fatigue may hit hardest during the easiest part of your breast cancer treatment.

Making those first positive moves are the hardest, as you will be reluctant to leave your old established ways behind.

"Keeping your grip is the hardest part, " she said. "It's really easy to slide downward. "

Ultimately the hardest part of the Commerce Transformation Initiative was that their legacy systems make it difficult.

Why are the hardest, "Engineering Mechanics" only a few people who do not pass, not more!

After that, I walked around, I walked through the section of town which had been hit hardest. I walked for close to three hours.

Sometimes no matter how much you want things to happen, all you can do is wait. And usually waitting is the hardest part.

Making the decision to do something about it right now is often times the hardest step in achieving your goals and going after your dreams.

"You've cut off your hair? " asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor.

The hardest part of the tour is at the very end: find the name on your pass, make sure it is alive.

One of the hardest things for any man to do is to fall down on the ice when it is wet and then get up and praise the lord.

One of the hardest things a dad has to do is watch his young son or daughter take on a difficult task and fail at it.

Observing at the telescope was among the hardest, most demanding work that any of us did and we were all in it together.

The hardest part of defining the copy-control functions is often simply recognizing that they are necessary.

Leaving home, my parents and family, and separating from some of my closest friends, was one of the hardest things I ever did.

The poor, especially in tropical climes, will be hardest hit by all this, since they have little means of adapting to such changes.

The south-east of England was the hardest hit at the beginning of the week but the snow is now moving northwards where the chaos continues.

He could feel her hand shaking as she tried her hardest to keep some form of control over her emotions.

Property and financial stocks were among the hardest hit by disappointment that the PBoC had not opted for a bigger rate cut.

She passed a battery of tests, including a physical, a test flight and a written exam the latter of which Chen said was the hardest for her.

I could not avoid communicating to her something of what lay hardest upon my mind and particularly the narrowness of my circumstance.

Fujian Province, a coastal area along the Taiwan Strait, was one of the hardest-hit areas.

I remember , quite a while ago , that in engineering classes among the best, brightest and hardest working students were - the Chinese .

"Having to leave your children behind is the hardest thing about being a migrant, " she said.

We go all over Europe playing top teams and we play against the best sides in this country, but that was one of the hardest games we've had.

He would say it was "the hardest thing I've ever done, " occasionally moving from chair to bed to complete a vocal piece.

It is said of him that he could squeeze a draught out of the hardest of stones, and drink it for nourishment.

Onna was one of the hardest-hit, with half the town destroyed, officials said.

We were called back in the middle of our interviews due to the pressing deadline and had yet to visit some other hardest-hit towns.

Rikuzentakata, on Japan's northeast coast about 250 miles from Tokyo, was one of the communities hardest hit by the March 11 disaster.

Love is a powerful weapon that can melt the hardest heart, and as you come together to send it out so it carries much more power.

The hardest ingredient in suffering is often time.

Otherwise the standard set will be that of the company trying the hardest to please the Chinese government.

The hardest part is the constant need to go beyond yourself and not to "repeat" , or to follow the same train of thought.

This might be the hardest test for Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and the Fed since the end of the financial crisis.

The hardest part of the mission passed , and the rest is just a piece of cake .

Trying to forgive my own real and imagined trespasses has been the hardest task.

The hardest part of the mission has passed, and the rest is just a piece of cake.

For me, the hardest parts of being a mother were the moments of insecurity, when it seemed as though my best efforts fell short.

The hardest part was getting out of my seat and walking to the front of the class.

If you look around, you will wee the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who work the hardest.

It might be the hardest thing in the world to do, but at least you're not taking the coward's way out.

Other countries hit hardest by the financial crisis also seem to have turned a corner.

The first step is always the hardest, and once taken, it sets up the momentum needed to more easily knock out the remaining steps.

Residents of the hardest-hit areas likely only had 15 minutes of warning, though Tokyo would have had at least 40 minutes of warning.

And some had learned the hardest lesson of all. . . That life is always fragile. And very often unfair.

sometimes, the simplest advice that you give to others is the hardest thing for you to follow.

Fake friends are easy to find and easy to loose but real friends are the hardest to find and hardest to loose.

Many of the runners interviewed said the hardest part about running after work was finding the motivation after a long day in the office.

And if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music.

Nikki Gemmell: The thing that I worry about when I write is, and I think its one of the hardest things to do, is keeping people's attention.

'I am sorry' is one of the most powerful phrases in the English language, but it is also one of the hardest phrases to say it out.

Joi: I think first of all, they have to realize that marketing their product is going to be the hardest problem, not the distribution.

I have reach by the Internet , many of people said that Chinese is one of the most hardest language all over the word.

The gems and jewellery sector, usually a strong export performer, was the hardest hit with a total fall of 9 per cent.

One of hardest parts of a home-movie project involves something you may never have heard of: color correction.

There's no reason to put more jobs at risk in an industry that has been one of the hardest-hit in this recession.

What's more, he said I was the hardest working person in the office!

The Flex Bushhammer takes care of this job in just a few minutes even on the hardest granite surfaces.

But, my dear, I thought you would be pleased. You never go out, and here's a chance, a fine one. I had the hardest work to get it.

I had to finish those hardest tasks, got along with my collages, you know sometimes it's very difficult.

Therefore, the writer considered this group of Puerto Rican immigrants who living at the bottom of life as the hardest Americans.

Either way, cutting the deficit is likely to be one of his hardest tasks.

The hardest is to move to a field where none of your previous experience is relevant.

This is often the hardest part for an artist new to technical drawing.

Reflective objects are often the hardest to light and of these jewelry is the most time-consuming.

All students have to take history and it seems to be the hardest part of all subjects.

It was one of the hardest jobs I ever undertook.

Ending a relationship is one of the hardest things you can do, it breaks your heart inside, and your soon to be ex-partner.

By definition, though, transgressions like this are among the hardest to identify.

That's one of the hardest skills any writer can learn, but I highly suggest every working writer learn it, sooner rather than later.

Of the South-East Asian countries hit by outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu virus, Vietnam has perhaps had the hardest time of it.

JEFF: That must be the hardest thing about being a parent. Leaving them. Even for a minute.

Don't give up, the beginning is always the hardest!

One of the hardest parts of a long distance relationship is connecting when one person gets busier than the other.

Just as in peace processes from Northern Ireland to Sri Lanka, however, Nepal's politicians left the hardest parts to last.

We must never forget: these diseases affect the "bottom billion" , the poorest of the poor living in the hardest to reach places.

It has been one of the hardest hit among the largest U. S. lenders in the nation's housing and credit crisis.

Self-knowledge is often the hardest to learn and the least welcome, but the brutal truth is best.

South Australia, with the least rainfall and at the end of the line, had been hit hardest, and began trading water allocations in the 1980s.

South Australia, with the least rainfall and at the end of the line, had been hit hardest, and began trading water allocations in the 1980s.

Yea for you! You've already gotten past the hardest part- just walking through the door.

For instance, the front section, being the hardest working, benefits from most-heat cooking to produce the most tender hugs.

Stops in Two Dimensions Placing stops is one of the hardest challenges in trading, more so than finding good trades.

When it comes to doing business, "Haiti is probably the hardest place in the world right now outside maybe Afghanistan, " Mr. Scofield says.

The day the company's failure will hit me hardest is probably when my own neighborhood store closes.

Even the hardest workers in the world would get fired if: Your position in the company is redundant, or no longer needed by the company.

all curable ~es that afflict mankind, the hardest to cure, and the one most likely to leave its victim a chronic invalid, is adolescence.

I know the beginning is always the hardest. What I mean the beginning, is the negotiation part before behave!

She noted that the crisis hits the poor the hardest, and that the more a family spends on food, the less it has for health care.

She noted that the crisis hits the poor the hardest, and that the more a family spends on food, the less it has for health care.

He was always ready to take on the hardest job.

One of the hardest-hit countries in Europe, it has already mounted rescues for two banks, Fortis and Dexia.

WHERE is the hardest place in the world to be a Christian citizen?

The hardest part to write was the bit about Rebecca Loos but I couldn't ignore it because it is such a huge part of his story.

The American presidency is always the world's hardest and most consequential job, but it seems particularly so this month.

The people who work the hardest to get referrals, it seems to me, are the people who least deserve them.

The fastest growth in wealth took place in India, China and Brazil, some of the hardest hit markets in 2008.

The manufacturing sector is one of the hardest hit in the US and within the sector, mills industries are have seen a huge decline.

This places them at the centre of one of the hardest- hit segments of the global IT industry as a result of the economic downturn.

This places them at the centre of one of the hardest- hit segments of the global IT industry as a result of the economic downturn.

The next President's hardest job may be getting the country used to that.

And the hardest thing under the sun above is to say goodbye to the ones you love. No I will not weep nor make a scene.

During the process of multi-lateral negotiation started by WTO, the part of agricultural products is always the hardest and much-discussed.

No problem. But, you know, I'm not a translator and poems are hardest to translate.

Bankers said the July trends had continued into August and would hit smaller companies hardest.

The hardest thing to foresee was how other departments within the company would view my market research department's work.

Housing sales are picking up in some of the hardest hit markets, though prices are still dropping.

Of all the immigrants in the United States, the Amerasians, I think, are the group that's had the hardest time finding the American Dream.

The hardest part of any big project is the beginning.

The hardest part of any big project is the beginning.

Fathoming the intentions of the men in turbans who run Iran has long proved one of the hardest of diplomatic tasks (see article).

And I remember that in business classes, among the best, brightest and hardest working students were - the Chinese.

Liu started to do preparatory work for the film in October 2010; the hardest part, he said, was finding actors.

Investment-banking will shrink, with the axe expected to fall hardest in London.

Your character Logan is not the hardest worker or the most serious student. Sounds like you were pretty different in college.

Japan, within range of the North's missiles, is pushing hardest for punitive sanctions on top of the existing ones that have failed to bite.

It is the hardest natural gem on the world more, with you firm and persistent disposition happens to have the same view.

Metals would be among the hardest hit; Chinese construction is among the largest global drivers of demand for iron ore.

"The hardest market to crack is the U. S. , " he said.

"The hardest market to crack is the U. S. , " he said.

Couples have said that the first five years of this type of marriage are the hardest.

We used to hunt bush meat together as kids, huh? Baboons, they were the hardest to catch. They're. . . They're cunning. Cunning creatures.

The hardest part of all of this is looking at a dog that we know is not at all suitable for our program and just having to walk away.

Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

Now, three years of journey only the last one-way, the most critical one is the hardest way to go.

I have slept in thousands of beds throughout the world but this was the hardest and most uncomfortable bed that I have yet tried.

Staying motivated to lose weight and exercise is tough -- and the hardest part is usually getting started in the first place.

Are we dealing with him that way? God gives us the hardest, greatest and most effectual test : offer your Isaac.

It's one of the hardest talks a doctor can have with a family: how to deal with an overweight kid.

He was the hardest worker, so the boss man had let it be known that he ought to be fed regularly.

Establishing a clear visual hierarchy is one of the hardest challenges in visual interface design, and takes skill and talent.

It is one of the games we have found the hardest and the scores have always been close.

It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

Factoring that sort of behaviour into the models is the hardest thing of all.

Later, Cynthia asked for help turning the heel of her first knitted sock (making the heel is the hardest part of knitting socks).

The hardest would be the worry that the battery might lose much of its charge mid-journey, the way a mobile phone does.

The hardest task would be to restructure the country to guarantee a lasting peace among the warring feudatories .

One obvious rejoinder to these findings is, as Mr. Broda concedes, that the recent surge in oil and food prices has hit the poor hardest.

Southern England appears to be the hardest hit region, while Scotland has the lowest rates of infection so far.

Now, obviously it is a very difficult thing -- one of the hardest things about my job is ordering young men and women into the battlefield.

For a president and his generals who consider success possible, deciding against an intensified effort is the hardest imaginable choice.

Spiritual battles must be fought with the very weapons hardest to wield at the time: prayer, meditation, self-examination, and repentance.

Painful though higher taxes will be, the hardest job of the coalition government will be clamping down on spending.

At present the dark Ones are at panic stations trying there hardest to create confusion.

The W. H. O. chief said climate change will also hit the poor the hardest but, to a greater or lesser extent, will affect all countries.

O'REILLY: But look, I've got to tell you, ladies, I do the hardest news program in the country.

British banks would be among the hardest hit by an Irish debt default because they are among the largest investors in Irish bonds.

There were 11 million jobs lost, half of them in the United States, and with low-skilled workers and manufacturing the hardest hit.

They so desperately wanted me to win that they hired a calligraphy teacher to teach me to write the hardest form of calligraphy.

Australia was the hardest hit as it aggressively cut its interest rate and on sharp economic downturn.

The hardest part of his job is watching his creations disappear down the drain after they're photographed.

There is considerable evidence that the hardest deposits do not necessarily give the greatest wear resistance.

Visitors to the Sears Tower's new glass balconies all seem to agree: The first step is the hardest.

Did you find, 'cause you've had these very serious dramatic roles very intense. -Ahh, what was the hardest part for me?

The reporter also asked Thomas Edison what was the hardest invention to develop.

Goldman Sachs will be hardest hit: it derives at least 10% of its revenue from proprietary trading.

And many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

Logic errors are generally the hardest type to fix, since it is not always clear where they originate.

As the drama plays out, Nasdaq, the first electronic stock market, faces one of its hardest tests since it was founded 41 years ago.

Worn, the pecan company executive from Georgia, said retailers who sell bagged pecans are likely to be hardest hit by increased prices.

This can be the hardest part - afteryou have apologized and attempted to understand what is going on, youhave done your part.

They've made it through the hardest part and he tells Sucre, Abruzzi and Lincoln that they'll be into the pipe by Friday.

promises to increase acrimony inside UBS, which has gutted its leadership since becoming one of the hardest-hit banks in the credit crisis.

The application process is sheer torture. It's one of the hardest things I've ever had to do in my life.

Our hardest task continues to be persuading men to confront the fact that their waistbands have risen.

Nights and evenings are the hardest times; as the light fades, the sound of bullets echoes through the city.

The FTI says hotels, restaurants, souvenir shops and shopping malls near the protest sites would be hardest hit.

"The hardest thing about the whole pregnancy, " Bender says, "was the sleep after she was born. "

Runtime memory errors and leaks are among the hardest problems to detect in an application.

But this book does its hardest hitting when the interviewees are allowed to remain anonymous.

To think there was once a time when I thought nailing the interview was the hardest part of getting a job.

But flooding was reported in all five boroughs, with the suburbs hardest hit and roads washed out in the Hudson river valley.

Rather than continue to do everything the hardest way possible, however, I should at least give you the option to take the easy way out.

This is often the hardest thing for many designers.

Because the hardest bit of the economic crisis is about to arrive.

The clothing trade, long one of Wenzhou's core industries, is among the hardest hit.

People from our past, make up the most important parts of our puzzle, and are always the hardest pieces to find if you lost them.

While Japan's decades of stagnation have increased the number of irregular jobs across all age groups, the young have been hit the hardest.

When you're the target of rage or criticism, controlling your own emotions is one of the hardest tasks.

"I am ready to give Jerry Brown the hardest and toughest fight he has seen in his 40 years in politics, " Whitman replied.

The hardest part was adjusting to working in an office space, and the nature of work, versus being out on our own.

Listen to your child's thoughts and concerns about school, and ask him about his favorite subjects: What are the easiest and the hardest?

One option is to focus on the hardest part of a camera to duplicate in a phone, its glass.

"It has been the hardest thing in my life, " she said.

The findings of this new research demonstrate why Africa may be the hardest hit continent when it comes to AIDS infections.

Made to resemble giant origami knots, they were created by Philip Treacy, surely fashion's hardest working milliner.

Jenny: Look, I mean for Phil, it's going to be hardest for him. You, after all, you're going to be the "merry" widower.

Experts say that the building code in much of the hardest-hit areas was set at the lowest domestic standard, which is six.

It is one of the hardest and yet one of the most important of all personal managements.

the hardest place he can find, and put sackcloth and ashes on his head, and stand out in the rain, and.

One of the hardest things we have to remember is to love and trust ourselves.

Under those circumstances, and all things considered, it was probably the hardest time I've ever had dealing with rule number two.

For GUI programs, the hardest part can be recognizing whether the application indicated the right failure mode.

One of the hardest things to do is to challenge your friends and family when they cross the line.

The findings contradict studies that have recently shown that supposedly typical or middle-class families have been hardest hit.

But it's not unique. Around the world, the burden of unemployment falls hardest on the young, who often respond with violence.

Ask her, "What was the hardest part about writing that report? "

I believe getting past stereotypes is one of the hardest things to do in life.

They ask each other such questions as What was the hardest moment you had growing up?

He went through the hardest time with his wife.

Instead, logging companies, sawmills and wood products manufacturers will continue to be squeezed the hardest.

Getting out of bed in winter is one of life's hardest mission.

The hardest thing is to disguise your feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home .

ONE of the hardest tasks doctors face is convincing an outwardly well patient that he needs drastic treatment.

Burma was criticized by the West and human rights groups for restricting access to the hardest hit areas and for refusing direct aid.

But some facets of the financial squeeze are hitting hardest those least able to cope.

The hardest game to play: just as you join, the rules are changed.

Love alone is the great power that cannot be repelled and will soften the hardest hearts.

Songs like 'You've Got A Friend' and 'Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word.

In the first few years of their lives they are cute little creatures which even the hardest of hearts can't help but adore.

The hardest three months of parenthood are the first, often more so for dads, who are more reluctant to give up the way things were.

decisions are the hardest thing to make, especially when it's a choice between where you should be and where you want to be.

I know I didn't try my hardest to mend things, I just wanted what I thought was the easiest way out.

A bank loan for a new business or to buy an existing business is the hardest type to get.

It is very hard to tell a good story. It is one of the hardest things in the world sometimes.

His hardest decision was to not allow the children to go to summer camp.

Well Deon, one of the hardest and scariest things to do in life is to make small talk with total strangers.

But sales were up sharply in some areas hardest hit by the housing bust, largely because bargain hunters were out in force.

These entitlements are the hardest parts of the budget to cut -- and the fastest-growing.